Monthly Meeting Tuesday Oct 19th – New Canon 5D’s On Order

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Join us October 19th for our monthly networking session. We will be talking Digital SLR’s (DSLR/HDSLR) or more specifically, providing an update on the Film Alliance’s new Canon 5D’s (yes, plural as in two) that are on order for member use. In addition to the two camera’s, we have also ordered audio (wireless and shotgun [...]

See Red at the Monthly Networking Event Tuesday

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Join us Tuesday evening for our monthly networking session. Gather with your peers for a demonstration of the Red camera, used to shoot recent Sundance Grand Prize Award winner “Winter’s Bone”, which was shot in Taney County. The Red is considered the next generation in film production. What: Red Camera demonstration When: Tuesday February 16th, [...]

Fall Away, Feature Film Being Shot On Canon EOS 7D in Chicago

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Producers Boris Wexler and Julian Grant of Escape Films have the distinction of being the first Chicago filmmakers to shoot a feature entirely with the Canon EOS 7D, one of the new generation of DSLR cameras geared to independent filmmaking. Their “under $500,000” dramatic feature, “Fall Away,” has been shooting weekends at Chicago locations, many [...]

Time lapse video tutorial

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Phillip Bloom, who is writing extensively about using the new Canon DSLR for video, also recently offered this tutorial on Time Lapse video with stills: Doing timelapse with the stills function gives you enormous flexibility and the ability to get some truly mind blowing low light timelapse sequences. Much better than you can do with [...]

Electronic Video System’s Showcase Returns October 8th

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Electronic Video Systems presents the Return of the EVS Fall Video Showcase.

1. Seminars on Smart Boards, Digital Signage, Broadcast Applications, Apple Final Cut Pro and more
2. Equipment on display with experts available to answer all your questions
3. More than 60 vendors from Broadcast, A/V and CCTV will be in attendance

Mobile Film Festival

That’s mobile as in hauling a 40 ton truck across the Scottish Highlands. Tilda Swinton and a group known as “A Pilgrimage” are responsible for the mobile screening facilities and the films that are being shown in remote towns in Northern Scotland that wouldn’t otherwise have a chance to see these films. What type of [...]

Apple Introduces Final Cut Studio

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The newest version of Apple’s ubiquitous video editing application suite has been released and there are already several reviews available online. Videomaker points to it with some initial impressions based upon the specifications announced. My favorite indie filmmaker read, over at Self-Reliant Filmmaking, also chimes in As most readers know, I’m a fan of Final [...]

The Science of the Movies

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So I stumbled across a new series this weekend while visiting my Mom (she’s got U-Verse and all sorts of channels). Science of the Movies is on the Science Channel, which is part of Discovery Channel, and it’s pretty cool. The show I saw was Horror Movies – Effects that Scare which I know will [...]

DTV Transition Day: Will You Get Through It?

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June 12th is the transition day and there have been a few useful items I’ve seen that may be helpful to your effort. I just helped my younger sister in St Louis set up a converter box on her little kitchen TV and she’s a very happy camper. Living in Shrewsbury, she went from getting [...]

Brook Linder Offers Feedback on Nikon D90 As Video Source

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I recently asked Missouri State freshman Brook Linder to offer some feedback on his choice of a Nikon D90 not only for it’s photography but as a camcorder. He shared this short response with me (via Facebook) along with the short video he created while participating in the Hillcrest TV road trip that took them [...]

On Set with Red: A Weary AC’s Rant

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From the Provideo Coalition at FreshDV comes On Set with Red: A Weary AC’s Rant by Matt Jeppsen While Red was making new product announcements in November 2008, I was busy AC’ing a 10-day Red One shoot. Between takes the crew discussed the new camera and sensor options announced by Jim Jannard and Co. The [...]