June 2012 – Page 2 – Media Services News

Selected New Home Use Titles in Media Services

Check out these titles that were recently added to the Media Services Home Use Collection! Being John Malkovich – HU DVD 91* Black Hawk Down – HU DVD 346*Psycho – HU DVD 411*Elephant – HU DVD 790* Kiss Me Deadly – HU 1058*The Architecture of Doom – HU DVD 1148*Glory – HU DVD 1171*Band of … Continue reading “Selected New Home Use Titles in Media Services”

Check out these titles that were recently added to the Media Services Home Use Collection!

Being John Malkovich – HU DVD 91*

Black Hawk Down – HU DVD 346*
Psycho – HU DVD 411*
Elephant – HU DVD 790*

Kiss Me Deadly – HU 1058*
The Architecture of Doom – HU DVD 1148*
Glory – HU DVD 1171*
Band of Outsiders – HU DVD 1340*
Days of glory (Indigenes)– HU DVD 2907*

Reservoir Dogs – HU DVD 4676
Avant Garde – HU DVD 7151*
She’s the Man – HU DVD 4379
Zoot Suit – HU DVD 4939*
Food, Inc. – HU DVD 6527*
Black Swan – HU DVD 8300*

Brick – HU DVD 2253*

Pride & Prejudice – HU DVD 2350*

La Jetée – HU DVD 2949*

Donnie Darko – HU DVD 2173*

Community, Season 1 – HU DVD 10001-10004
Community, Season 2 – HU DVD 10005-10008

King Solomon’s Mines – HU DV 10012

King Solomon’s Mines – HU DVD 10013

Cry, The Beloved Country– HU DVD 10014
Into the Abyss – HU DVD 10018

Buck – HU DVD 10019

Brothers – HU DVD 10020

Dream Girls – HU DVD 10027

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close– HU DVD 10028

Certified Copy – HU DVD 10031

Australia – HU DVD 10033

Dick Tracy – HU DVD 10036

Mid-August Lunch – HU DVD 10037

Sucker Punch – HU DVD 10038

Texture Tuesday: Brought to you by Abduzeedo.com

Designer Paolo Canabarro posts these great textures available for others to download and use in their graphic design and web design projects. Each Tuesday he posts new ones on Abduzeedo.com in a series called Tuesday Total Textures. Check them out!

Local filmmaker discusses his latest project with Kojo Nnamdi

Local filmmaker, Rohit Colin Rao sat down with Kojo Nnamdi this afternoon to discuss his latest film, Ultrasonic. Rohit also shared his experiences creating this film which was all shot, edited, and produced in the DC area. Rohit is the writer, director, and producer of Ultrasonic. He was first inspired to pursue this project, by … Continue reading “Local filmmaker discusses his latest project with Kojo Nnamdi”

Local filmmaker, Rohit Colin Rao sat down with Kojo Nnamdi this afternoon to discuss his latest film, Ultrasonic. Rohit also shared his experiences creating this film which was all shot, edited, and produced in the DC area. Rohit is the writer, director, and producer of Ultrasonic. He was first inspired to pursue this project, by the accessibility of the Canon Rebel T2i, which he used to shoot the film. He then used his Macbook Pro and Final Cut Pro to edit. See trailer below

Excert from the Kojo website:
Can a decent camera, a laptop and a creative vision really spell success in the movie business? For one Washington, D.C., filmmaker, those elements–plus local talent and $20,000–resulted in “Ultrasonic,” the first award-winning feature film created and produced entirely in the District. Kojo joins the filmmaker to discuss his work and how new technology is democratizing the filmmaking process.

Review:
http://news.doddleme.com/news-room/movie-review-ultrasonic/

The IMDB link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070883/fullcredits

Media Services alum Colin Foster’s film project used by Lynda.com!

Media Services recently caught up with another one of our alums, Colin Foster who has written and directed this short film entitled, The Funeral. Not only does this look like a really great film (you can see the trailer and synopsis below), but clips of it were also used in a Lynda.com tutorial created by … Continue reading “Media Services alum Colin Foster’s film project used by Lynda.com!”

Media Services recently caught up with another one of our alums, Colin Foster who has written and directed this short film entitled, The Funeral. Not only does this look like a really great film (you can see the trailer and synopsis below), but clips of it were also used in a Lynda.com tutorial created by colorist, Robbie Carman! There are also other crew members involved who are from the New Media Center, Banu Debre and Willow Williamson.

Synopsis:
Isaac and Jenny, a comically contentious married couple, struggle with feelings of anger and loss when confronting the death of a family member. Their childish reactions to the event causes problems with their relationship, and sends them spinning toward divorce.

Colin was kind enough to also share a couple production stills (below), not to mention a bit of background about the project.

Colin Foster:
The film was officially completed this past November after going through the final phases of post production. All the members of our crew were amazing but I was particularly lucky to have Robbie Carman, a very talented colorist and post production guru, work on the film. His contribution was major, and he liked the film so much that he wound up using several clips from it as examples in a Lynda.com tutorial he was working on (I believe it was on color correction in FCP X).

Since then I’ve been trying my luck on the festival circuit. Nothing has struck yet but I’m still waiting to hear back from a variety of festivals in the states and abroad, so cross your fingers. The film isn’t available online at the moment but sometime in the near future I do hope to schedule a DC screening of not only my film, but also of all the films that have been made by my fellow AU filmmakers as well. Date and location TBD but I’ll keep you posted.

The Funeral, a new short film written and directed by Colin Foster

CAST  Ariana Almajan as Jenny Sun King Davis as Isaac  Ricky Brick as Baby the Cat

PRODUCERS  

Banu Debre

 Colin Foster

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS 

Nur Debre 

Mariana Studart 

Susan Foster

PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT  

Jason Fraley – 1st AD

 Mary Ratliff – Script Supervisor

CAMERA DEPARTMENT  

Jon Malis – Director of Photography 

Garrett O’Brien – 1st AC 

Katie Neff – 2nd AC

GRIP AND ELECTRIC 

Drew Louis – Gaffer 

Dave Joyce – Key Grip 

Lara Aqel – Dolly Grip

 Jeremiah Horan – Grip

SOUND DEPARTMENT 

Banu Debre – Sound Recordist 

Boom Operator – Christopher Richmond

ART DEPARTMENT  

Robin Pohlman – Production Designer 

Joshua Cohen – Art Director

SCORE 

Willow Williamson

POST PRODUCTION  

Banu Debre – Editor  

Mike Estler – Sound Designer 

Robbie Carman – Colorist

Early interview footage of your favorite directors

Check out this great post from Flavorwire, which highlights early interview footage of the following directors: Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Wes Anderson, Jane Campion, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard.

A keyword search from the Media Services homepage will bring up tons of great titles, many of which are part of our Home Use Collection. Just enter the director’s name in quotes (ex. “Jean-Luc Godard”) in the search field and check out the list of titles. If the call number says HOME USE COLLECTION then that title is available to AU students, staff, and faculty to take home for up to 3 days.

Here are a couple more director interviews. To see them all, go to Flavorwire.