The 7 day, Rhode Island International Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday. They had record attendance and a lot of fun was had by all. There were 300 filmakers there representing their submitted films. The Key to City of Providence was presented to actor, John Ratzenberger (aka Cliff Clavin). On Thursday there was a film forum at Brown University and Avid's Michael Phillips presented on the panel titled "Changing Technologies in Film". Michael, having just finished his own film was a great source of information. He touched on some important key components of filmmaking. His introduction made some of the basic points such as "have a good story", "maybe you don't want to be both Editor and Director", and then there is always the options of good, fast and cheap. It can't always be all three so there are choices to be made. Michael then spoke on the new file based camera technologies. He gave an overview of the Sony, Panasonic and Red Cameras and the pros and cons of each. Michael also discussed the various deliver methods and also some helpful advise on how to get your film seen.
Also presenting on the panel was Mark Almark Altekruse, Director of Sales and Marketing for Abaltat. He demonstrated their music composing software Muse. This neat software will analyze the colors on your video and create the music for you. It provides a wide choice of musical genre and has seamless integration with Apple, Avid, Adobe and Media 100 editing applications. Mike Bell of Embee Studio also presented on Blue-Ray Authoring.
Finishing up the Film festival on Sunday, August 10th, was the awards Brunch where the winning entries to the festival received their awards. Awards were presented in a variety of categories. Avid Technology also presented a copy of Media Composer Software to the winner of the "AVID's Student Filmmaking Achievement Award". This years award went to Zia Anger, Director, Producer; Billy Feldman, Writer, Producer; and Ashley Connor, Cinematographer/DP for the film "Lover Boy".
Synopsis:
For his ninth birthday Myles asks for nothing but wood. With his once vivacious grandmother slowly dying, and his burdened mother struggling for relevance he is constructing the everlasting life he desires. Within this wintry upstate New York world, there are indeed mighty forces at play.
Link: Avid Student Filmaking Achievement Award Winner
