Featured Project: Get Pade

This week's featured project comes from upperclassmen Daniel Sontag, Evan Sprague, and Ryan Loveland.

Get Pade Trailer from Daniel Sontag on Vimeo.

Coming soon...

Starring Jeff Skiba

Directed / Edited by Daniel Sontag
Writing / VFX by Evan Sprague
Director of Photography Ryan Loveland

This isn't the first time Sprague has written a movie about a hitman in need of a life change. Also check out "After All" from his stint in DVA241.

Inspiration: Command+Z

Check out this great piece of visual effects filmmaking produced by a bunch of students at the Art Center College of Design

COMMAND+Z

With visuals obviously inspired by German expressionism and produced entirely on greenscreen, this is one you need to watch!

Phoenix-Area Production Jobs

Check out these 2 recent job posts from Craig's List!

Camera / Production Assistant (day job, August 15th)

Freelance Video Producer, Director of Photography, Videographer

IFP/Phoenix to Host Production Assistant Workshop This Saturday

Here's a great educational opportunity all DV students should attend: The IFP/Phoenix Production Assistants Workshop!

This session will delve into a variety of skills that will help PAs graduate to more skilled positions on the set. Producers from actively hiring projects will be in attendance. This seminar is ideal for anyone with some experience, but who wants more in depth information. Join independent producer/director Joe Gruberman, veteran of four feature films and dozens of shorts and commercials in exploring the ins & outs of movie and commercial production.

August 15, 2009 from 1pm to 4pm

IFP/Phoenix Classroom
1700 N 7th Ave, #250
Phoenix, AZ 85007
602-955-6444
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TICKETS: $15 for IFP/PHX members, $20 for non-members

MORE INFO AT: http://ifpphx.org/events/production-assistants-workshop

Featured Project: Heart of the Sunrise

Heart of the Sunrise from UAT Digital Video on Vimeo.

Music video produced for classes DVA241 Digital Video Production and DVA274 Digital Video Editing by student Bryan Simcox. Summer 2009 Semester.

Music: "Heart of the Sunrise" by Yes.

Advice for Finding a Job in CG

From the StudioDaily blog:

Thousands of students packed into the meeting room [at SIGGRAPH] to listen to a panel discussion on “Getting a Job in CG” for film, television and/or videogames. The panel included job recruiters, producers and visual effects artists from ILM and LucasArts, Digital Domain, Sony Imageworks, Double Negative, Moving Picture Company and Microsoft Game Studios. The veteran panel laid out some sound advice for the wide-eyed crowd.

Read all their great advice here!

Pixar's John Lasseter: Advice for Animation Students

From one of the most successful animation directors in the history of cinema come these jewels of wisdom - study the basics, learn to draw, learn film grammar, software doesn't make good movies... all the things you've been hearing from us at UAT...

John Lasseter Q&A Any advice for aspiring animation student?
by disneypixar

DV Internship: UAT's IT Department

UAT's in-house Digital Media Producer Kari McBride is in need of not one but TWO DV interns for the Fall Semester.

Job Expectations for Video Internship

• Produce bi-weekly videos for You Tube, and Flickr
• Effectively communicate a theme in each video
• Log old footage from the vault
• Work with Marketing on UAT TV projects
• Attend and record approved UAT events and edit them for use

Requirements

• Should have basic knowledge of shooting, lighting, and editing on AVID
• Have basic knowledge of different camcorders
• Have Fun

Interested? Contact Kari McBride today!

Featured Project: Ticket to the Moon

This week's featured project is a surreal music video for ELO's "Ticket to the Moon," created by student Sean Walter for this semester's DVA241 Digital Video Production and DVA274 Digital Video Editing classes.



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All Directors Should Be Animators First

I caught this one on Stu Maschwitz's ProLost blog a few days ago and had to share it. In this 1978 AFI seminar, Steven Spielberg talks about how he admires the pre-visualization skills of animators.



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