Extended interview with the director, Isaac Ravishankara, on both the process of filming the two-day shoot, and the extensive thinking and planning behind it.

If you saw Whiplash, this is an interesting note on moving from a little pre-version to the actual film. Good on color grading.

Once you’ve shown your film in class, complete this form. Thanks.

Here to There – Blue – Jones, Rasheed

Here to There – Red – Peterman, Macey

This email came to Ms. Brunette. Looks good.

Portland Youth Film Festival, a program run in cooperation with University of Southern Maine, invites your students to participate in our sixth annual Young Filmmakers’ Contest!

Students can enter films in the following categories:

• Short Film of 3 minutes or less incorporating the theme, “Something Unexpected”

• Documentary of 8 minutes or less on any subject.

For less experienced students and teachers, we have posted documentary filmmaking guidelines on our website with multiple examples and tutorials.  We can also provide feedback on draft documentary footage submitted before February 1st.  See the links below.

http://www.portlandyouthfilmfestival.com/young-filmmakers-contest

http://www.portlandyouthfilmfestival.com/resources-for-young-filmmakers

With a little structure and guidance, making a short film or documentary can be easy and fun for students and provide a lasting sense of pride and accomplishment!

The submission deadline is February 17, 2017.   Selected films will be posted online and shown at the Festival on March 18, 2017.  There is no entry fee.

I have attached a flyer that you can post in your community if you are interested.

Thank you,

Mark Shaughnessy,  Contest Coordinator

*sigh*

Great web site of DIY jerry–rigged quick’n’dirty kludges from the film industry when you just have to get the shot.

As shown in class, HandBrake is to go-to tool from cropping/changing aspect ratio of video.

But VLC is the tool to use for quickly trying out different crops in real time. It’s now in our Tools > Software page. It’s the best and most powerful video player for Macs, Windows, and Linux. And it’s very good for testing out cropping options for different aspect ratios:  Video > Crop > or press “C” over and over to rotate through all choices – 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 16:10 (MacBook screen), 2.21:1, 2.35:1, 2.39:1, 5:4.