Hakaya Misk Festival focuses on content creation driven by cultural and educational values to motivate youth to express their ideas
Hakaya Misk Festival focuses on content creation driven by cultural and educational values to motivate youth to express their ideas through four creative sections. These are:
The Writing Lab offers workshops and seminars in writing styles and techniques, such as literature, screen plays, media content, and science fiction.
The Art Squares are focused on techniques for drawing characters and cartoons, and other graphic arts. The Animation Factory specializes in the creation of animation content, the art of animation, dubbing and voice acting. And finally, the Production Studio focuses on directing, photography and requirements of long and short film-making. The Festival designed these four sections in a creative way, offering workshops by a number of locally and globally accredited agencies, organizations and individuals, as well as special seminars on the platform of each section. These seminars will be presented by industry professionals and prominent figures in these fields These are accompanied by theatrical performances, Hakaya Youth, the young author’s section, the Hakaya market and the Hakaya Tech section.
Bringing together our traditional stories embodying a wealth of principles and values, with modern storytelling methods and techniques is one of the key features that is unique to Misk Tales. The Festival brings together a range of ways and techniques of presenting historical and heritage tales, starting with traditional ways such as the Rawi and the Hakawati (traditional storytellers), to the latest method in electronic and technical storytelling such audio stories and animation.
Our society has a sustained need and demand for entities specialized in teaching young people and training them in how to infuse history and social values in a practical way into animation and stories using modern media technology. The goal is to produce media content that is modern and authentic at the same time, and Misk Tales has the priority in seeking to achieve this ambition.
Combining the values of education and training in a festival where most of the programs are entertaining and interactive is a specialized element unique to Hakaya Misk, especially since all its activities were designed by specialists with global expertise, in order to have a clear vision and goals.
The Hakaya Misk Festival offers a number of workshops on writing, drawing comics, animation, producing and directing, with each workshop representing a specific stop along the production journey of this important industry. The Festival aims for people attending the workshops to emerge with a solid knowledge base in this area as well as key techniques enabling them to refine this knowledge through ongoing practice.
Spaces dedicated for parties involved in writing, where visitors can talk to them and learn about their experiences and services closely.
Specialized workshops for young people from 15 to 35 years old, where a group of writers and creators train participants in an interactive manner to develop the basic concepts of writing in special topics. These topics include: – Writing science fiction stories- commercial/advertisment stories- musicals- articles.
Here speakers interact directly with visitors, sharing their experience and imparting their core expertise.
These spaces are dedicated to a number of artists specializing in comic books, caricatures and expressionist art.
Special workshops for young men and women aged 15 to 35 conducted by a number of professional on topics such as:
Drawing characters with Arab features – drawing sketches and arranging elements on the page – the basics of ink cartoons – transforming a screen play into an illustrated story
Here professional artists share their tools, display their creativity and create art live for visitors’ viewing pleasure.
Designated spaces for animation producers including agencies and individuals to display their work and share their passion with visitors.
Special training workshops for young men and women aged 15 to 35, in which trainees acquire the basics of cartoon animation and get to know the latest animation software through the following topics: – Animating a cartoon character – dubbing and voice-over – the stages of making a cartoon series – motion graphics.
Here creators will display their tools and share their passion with the audience and their experience in creating animated cartoons and voice dubbing.
This space gathers entities and individuals specialized in producing and directing to share experience and network among themselves.
Special workshops for young men and women aged 15 to 35, on complementary topics to the story-making industry presented by a number of specialists in production and photography, including: – post-production – from the oral to the visual – the photographer’s eye – the movie industry.
Here young people will talk about inspiration, plot-building, photography and professional directing.
A coach inspires children to imagine their stories and introduces them to the basics of story-making.
Here the children create a short story by using the Young Authors app.
Each child’s story is published electronically so that the child and his family get a printed or electronic version of the story.
– An overview of animation, short films and designing characters. – The importance of the Story Board in creating films in general and animation in particular. – A glimpse at acting, sound recording and its importance in giving the characters their own personality.
– Pre-production. – Creating of social accounts for advertising and publishing video content. – Production. – Post-production.
-Introduction to Maya software and its main functions. – Building models. – Animation basics. – Lighting. – Producing the work
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