Ai Tampa Swede Contest
Rules –
Duration: 5 minutes or less.
Try not to spend any money.
Let’s keep these PG-13.
You must have someone on your crew from a different major.
You must have an instructor or faculty member in your Swede.
You must have some sort of VFX in your Swede.
Judging –
You will be judged on the following:
Creativity of props
Creativity of costumes
Production Value
Your ability to tell a story
And “Viewability” (is your Swede watchable).
Why you should do this –
You can enter this into F8* next quarter.
You can enter this in to the Tampa Bay Swede Fest later this year.
We are giving away awesome prizes.
Submissions –
Please send me your team name and crew as soon as possible so we may post it on the blog along with what movie you will be Sweding.
The deadline to turn your finished product is April 20th at 5pm.
Turn in a DVD to either Robb Fladry or Justin Padilla.
Cabinet and New Facebook Page
We have decided to expand Rough Cut on Facebook as well as Twitter. So you should follow us @AiTampaRoughCut and like us on Facebook.
On another note, I have never officially announced my Cabinet and their positions, so here they are now:
Vice-President - Cet Mohamed-Moore
Secretary of State - Kat Romanowski
Secretary of Defense - Chris Griffin
Ambassador - Francisco Pineros
On another note, I have never officially announced my Cabinet and their positions, so here they are now:
Vice-President - Cet Mohamed-Moore
Secretary of State - Kat Romanowski
Secretary of Defense - Chris Griffin
Ambassador - Francisco Pineros
Video of the Week: 1-30-2012: 24 Hour Challenge Edition
January 20th marked the Art Institute of Tampa's second quarterly interdisciplinary 24 Hour Challenge. The theme this time around was Steampunk/Gothic Valentine. This week's video of the week contains the film winners from the competition. Congratulations to the winning teams.
Best Film: Goth for Dummies
Team BanterLu: Tomas Galang, Lauren Romero, Jessica Goodwin
Best Visual Effects: Searching for Solace
The Hot Carls: Megan Frisco, Brad Lulas, Paul Gentsch, Delaney Poli, Brian Gumper, Ian Haupert, Giancarlo Hernandez, Bryan Coburn, Alexie Olmo
Best in Show: Love You Like A Love Song Feat. Juice "Remix" [Official Music Video]
Team Shooter: Domonic Smith, Melvin Abreu, Sean Degraw, Chloe Simmons, Jessica Rivera, Hope Pontbriand, Sharon Taylor, and Randolph Robinson
Team BanterLu: Tomas Galang, Lauren Romero, Jessica Goodwin
Best Visual Effects: Searching for Solace
The Hot Carls: Megan Frisco, Brad Lulas, Paul Gentsch, Delaney Poli, Brian Gumper, Ian Haupert, Giancarlo Hernandez, Bryan Coburn, Alexie Olmo
Best in Show: Love You Like A Love Song Feat. Juice "Remix" [Official Music Video]
Team Shooter: Domonic Smith, Melvin Abreu, Sean Degraw, Chloe Simmons, Jessica Rivera, Hope Pontbriand, Sharon Taylor, and Randolph Robinson
Amazon and B&H Student Discount Deals
As students we frequently need books. As film students, we frequently need other accessories for shooting with and don't want to/can't always frequent the cage. For some of those things, owning them becomes a better option than borrowing. For buying, below are two sites that offer useful deals to students.
The first deal is free Amazon Student Prime for a year. Not only is it great for textbooks (and other books), but gear here and there as well: reflectors, memory cards, clamps, etc. To sign up, all you need to do is input school information, and use a .edu e-mail address.
Instead of saving a few bucks to buy something from a third party seller, you spend those few extra bucks to buy it from a "Prime Eligible" seller. What you end up getting is the option for free two-day shipping or $3.99 one-day shipping if you buy your item in the allotted time period. After your first free year, it's $39/year while you're in school after that. After signing up, the top left corner will look like this:
The second deal is the B&H EDU Advantage. A lot of the deals are geared toward teachers, and purchasers for schools, but there will sometimes be open box photography accessories within the student price range. (Useful tidbit: You can pay at B&H using PayPal, so you don't have to enter card information on another website.)
Complete the registration form, and attach a scan of your student ID card, along with a scan, or PDF of your class schedule. In about 24 hours, when you log in to B&H, the top left corner of the page will now look like this:
The first deal is free Amazon Student Prime for a year. Not only is it great for textbooks (and other books), but gear here and there as well: reflectors, memory cards, clamps, etc. To sign up, all you need to do is input school information, and use a .edu e-mail address.
Instead of saving a few bucks to buy something from a third party seller, you spend those few extra bucks to buy it from a "Prime Eligible" seller. What you end up getting is the option for free two-day shipping or $3.99 one-day shipping if you buy your item in the allotted time period. After your first free year, it's $39/year while you're in school after that. After signing up, the top left corner will look like this:
The second deal is the B&H EDU Advantage. A lot of the deals are geared toward teachers, and purchasers for schools, but there will sometimes be open box photography accessories within the student price range. (Useful tidbit: You can pay at B&H using PayPal, so you don't have to enter card information on another website.)Complete the registration form, and attach a scan of your student ID card, along with a scan, or PDF of your class schedule. In about 24 hours, when you log in to B&H, the top left corner of the page will now look like this:
Helpful Blogs & Forums
Blogs are a really good way to supplement classroom learning. They're also updated more regular than textbooks. Below are a few useful and/or informative film-related blogs. Seeing as the school now has 5D's for use (provided you've attended a school-sponsored workshop to qualify to use one), a good chunk of are DSLR-focused blogs.
Vimeo Video School is a special sub-section of Vimeo that covers the basics of shooting video, from the rule of thirds, to lighting, lensing, and beyond. There is also a section on DSLR basics that covers crop factors, low light shooting, and a host of other considerations for DSLR shooting.
Lights Film School The site itself is an online film school, but there's some good info and inspiration to be found in the blog.
Designing Sound A good site for keeping up with news, and learning techniques and history behind audio in film through interviews.
Shoot.Edit.Learn Pretty self-explanatory. This blog is kept by a couple of the organizers of the annual Masters in Motion educational and networking event.
Phillip Bloom Bloom is a working British documentarian, DP, and editor with a background in news. He's also a a tech and gear junkie and regularly posts news and reviews, as well as amazing timelapses. There's a lot to be learned from his posts.
Vincent Laforet In addition to being a director, Laforet is also a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist. His 2009 short Reverie, which he shot using only ambient light on the Canon 5DMkII is credited with helping to set off the HDDSLR filmmaking revolution.
Shane Hurlbut, ASC Hurlbut is best known as the cinematographer behind The Rat Pack. Hurlburt's blog contains useful information on topic ranging from lighting and gear, to post production.
Down & Dirty DV Supplementary blog to the "Shut Up and Shoot" books on documentary and freelance work by Anthony Q. Artis.
It's a First AD Thing is a Tumblr kept by a working First Assistant Director. Some of it is the day-to-day minutiae of the projects she's currently working on, but the posts also feature practical advice and questions from readers.
B&H Insights Blog
NoFilmSchool Koo, the author of this blog is an (in)dependent filmmaker who didn't go to film school, and writes primarily for the same audience. His site also includes guides on workstations, workflows, and DSLR cinematography. If you edit using Premiere and After Efects more than Final Cut, NFS may be particularly helpful to you.
Planet5D Despite the "5D" in the name, this blog covers other cameras, though mainly Canon and Nikon. Its main focus us DSLR shooting, and the site includes both a blog and forum.
DSLR Film Noob DeeJay, the owner and author of the blog bills it as "The Noobs Guide to DSLR filming and Camera Equipment". Despite that it's also useful for the more advanced-filmmaker looking for cheaper or DIY alternatives to big-budget gear and techniques.
Avid Forums The community forum for users of Avid post-production products (because we don't all use Final Cut or Adobe).
Filmmaker IQ Home to a blog, articles, and an expanding forum.Prolost An all-around filmmaking blog.CheesyCam Useful for coming up with DIY gear and lighting solutions.OliviaTech A lot of Olivia's gear reviews here are cross-posted at CheesyCam, but there is enough exclusive content at Olivia's blog to keep it bookmarked.The C47 Jem Schofield is an Apple Mentor Trainer with a lot of experience doing corporate video production. The C47 is production and post-focused blog.
The Black and Blue is especially useful to aspiring camera assistants and DPs, as it is maintained by Evan Luzi, a working AC. More lists of resources he deems useful can be found here and here.
Additional information can be gleaned by reading through and participating in forums, a few of which are listed below:
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