Man Who Laughs – HU DVD 3681 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – HU DVD 3682 The Cat and the Canary – HU DVD 3683 The Penalty – HU DVD 3684 Kingdom of Shadows – HU DVD 3685
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4th Brazilian Film Week – 3 Final Screenings Tonight at E St Cinema!
Tonight at 5:00pmSMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (É proibido fumar, 2009) Anna Muylaert. 86min. Baby is a chain-smoking guitar teacher in her forties who craves a romantic relationship. When musician Max moves into the apartment next door, she sees the possibility of turning her lonely life around. Instead, she unexpectedly finds herself involved in a […]
Continue readingTONIGHT!! Baby Boomer Film Festival – Wechsler Theater 7pm
Tonight’s film screening is of Coming Home, which can also be found in the Media Services Home Use Collection. Coming Home is a sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Color Palettes for Your Graphics Projects
When I’m doing graphics one of the things I find most difficult is choosing a proper color palate. And that’s where this site (ColourLovers) comes in. The site has over 1 million color palates online and they are searchable by matching colors, theme, mood, even season or trend. If you need a good palate, this […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Best Free Stock Photo Site Ever
One of the most difficult things about professional media production can be obtaining good quality images for your work. Stock.xchng is one of the best places to get free stock photos. And, the vast majority of the nearly 400,000 free photos is that they come with wide open usage licenses. Most only require photographer credit. […]
Continue readingDMS User Work – Makeup Contest Submission
This past weekend a Kogod student came into the Digital Media Studio with almost no experience making videos. She could do great makeup though. She’d found a makeup contest and wanted to create a video as an entry submission. She came to us, borrowed a Kodak Zi-8 hd camcorder and shot her video. Then she […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Professional FX in After Effects
After Effects is capable of a lot of amazing effects. A great way to snazz up your students films is to add professional looking special effects. Here’s a list of 30 amazing special effects video tutorials you can add to your films with a bit of clever After Effects work.
Continue readingDMS Help – After Effects Effects
Sometimes you just need some flare… Here are some After Effects tutorials that can show you how to create awesome effects in Adobe’s motion graphics suite. And, after you’re done playing with those you should check out the rest of the website; there are a lot of other neat tutorials for other animation and motion […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Need iMovie? Speak Spanish?
Here’s an excellent tutorial on iMovie HD in Spanish, just in case you’re a bit more comfortable doing technical stuff in your native language: http://vimeo.com/1464480
Continue readingBumble Bee Slams into a Police SUV During Transformers 3 Shoot
Michael Bay loves collision and mayhem in his films but this one he could have done without. While shooting Transformers 3 on-location in Washington DC, the Camaro Autobot Bumblebee t-boned a real DC police officer’s Tahoe as it was speeding to answer a suspicious package call. The officer was using a different radio frequency than […]
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