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The AFDA Experimental Festival 2020 successfully launches online
20 August 2020
The tech-savvy Business Innovation and Technology students have taken the bull by the horns and successfully launched the AFDA Experimental Festival, which goes live from 21 – 29 August 2020, presenting their 2030 business models to a judging panel of industry experts, as well as potential customers online via Zoom.
According to AFDA, the festival promises to be an eye-popping and mind-boggling experience in which students explore experimental concepts and present their outcomes from their courses, which embodies the scope of the future of the creative economy.
AFDA students from the Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth campuses have not allowed the lockdown to deter them from stepping into the 4th industrial revolution, having created over 80 experimental productions.
Given the COVID-19 protocols, AFDA said that crews from the School of Motion Picture Medium have shot films and documentaries remotely, from their bedrooms and gardens while being directed from the far side of town. According to AFDA, “Crews have taken the hybrid approach by filming in studios on campus as well as remotely, while others have chosen to shoot in isolated spaces.”
“From the School of Live Performance, theatre plays are being rehearsed in a virtual space with costume and makeup from mothers’ cupboards and music performance students have been recording in make-shift studios in garages,” AFDA concluded.
Originally written by Earle Holmes, Bizcommunity
