Over $14,000 in prizes, catered food and and awesome program! Wrap up, and come out out and network to change YOUR life!

You never know who you might meet at a DMV CPUG event!
If you missed the meeting, help this promising project make their goal and create this stunning series!

The Broken Continent is an epic fantasy adventure pilot heavy into pre-production that is slated to film in the Washington, DC area in September 2012. Show them your support on Kickstarter!

Arabel of the Ebon Spider; King Eadwyn Redway & Brenn, Daughter of Tairol. Photo by Roy Cox Photography (www.4-optic.com)

Mitch Jacobson is a director & digital video editor with 30 years experience in broadcast television, livestreaming and entertainment production. He is the owner of Category-5 Studios at DuArt in New York City. Mitch is a member of The Motion Picture Editor’s Guild (Hollywood/NY) and an Apple Certified Pro.

As a multicamera specialist, Mitch’s contributions to superstar concert films, network talk shows & professional sports programming have been seen on national television networks CBS, NBC, ABC & PBS plus the top cable channels A&E, Discovery, Fox, Disney and MTV. Several of these programs have been nominated for Prime Time Emmy® Awards.

In addition to TV programming production, Mitch also been a big part of the world’s best advertising & entertainment publicity campaigns for the biggest names in show business. He also directs live programs for the web and produces corporate media projects.

Selected credits include: Newport Jazz Festival, Paul McCartney: The Space Within US, Aerosmith: You Gotta Move, Pavarotti: A LIfe In Seven Arias, U2 360º Tour, The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang, Talk Shows for Montel Williams, Rachael Ray and Isaac Mizrahi; Tampa Bay Buccaneers Magazine, Sports Channel’s Super Bowl and All-Star Game specials, Live from the Artist’s Den and 60 Minutes Classic.

Mitch is the author of: Mastering Multicamera Techniques: From Preproduction to Editing and Deliverables (Focal Press). He also teaches and presents “Multicamera Madness” workshops for industry trade groups and conferences.

I love seeing the work of our members! Here is a recently completed edit from Patrick Schewmaker, a member of the DCFCPUG!  We are working together on an upcoming project! Watch this video… its fun and cool!

 

Fall Massive 2011 @ RFK STADIUM

Song: The Underground
Artist: Excision
Album: X Rated

If you are interested, please contact me via the contact page ASAP… Looking for support (if a female volunteer is out there, we have one male ready to support now)! Again, don’t delay in responding. Its a great opportunity to meet people while interviewing them for national radio coverage on the Internet. The Digital Production BuZZ has a worldwide audience and your voice will get great coverage too!

GV Expo is November 29th to December 1st and is being held at the Walter E Washington Convention Center. The exhibit hall is open on the 30th and the 1st so you would only need to commit to those two days. Additionally – we only need to gather between 5 – 8 interviews per person over the two days. So there would be plenty of time to look around the Exhibit halls. We would provide all the recording equipment and passes to the Expo. I’m just looking for someone who could help with both days. Do you have anyone you might be able to help or can you ask at the User Group Meeting.

Debbie – Larry Jordan Associates

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DCFCPUG

Our combined May meeting of the Washington DC Apple Final Cut Pro Users Group (DCFCPUG), DC After Effects and the DC Digital SLR (DCDSLR) will be an exciting knowledge sharing event!
Adam Lubkin and Zhibo Lai will be presenting the following agenda:

• Intro to the RED Epic camera
• How to shoot with it
• Show some sample footage and HDRx clips as well
• Shoot a few seconds of live footage
• Shoot same footage using a DSLR
• Downloading media
• Workflow demos using FCP, Color, Redcine X, and AE
• Compare/contrast footage from Epic and DSLR
• Q&A

REGISTER EARLY AND SHOW UP ON TIME AS THIS WILL BE A FULL HOUSE EVENT!

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Time: Doors open at 6PM for networking time, event starts around 6:30PM..

COVERED PARKING – AVAILABLE

GEAR:
Epic-M with a rapidly growing list of support gear from Arri, O’Connor, Steadicam, etc. An additional Epic is coming soon, and Scarlets when they’re ready.

Website at archaimedia.com will be up by the time of the meeting (24th May).

BIO:
After attending NYU film school, Adam left the field for several years to explore other interests including drawing, sculpting, woodworking, bicycles, construction, and fitness training. He recently created a bronze statue for the city of Frederick. His return to filmmaking began with shooting and editing documentaries. He has directed the feature documentary “Eb”, and worked on projects for numerous anti-poverty nonprofits. He’s currently writing a comedy feature set to shoot next year. His new company, Archai Media, has several productions in the works both here and in South America. Archai Media also rents its Red Camera gear, and is developing a line of ergonomic camera support accessories.

WHAT DRIVES ME AS A FILMMAKER:
My approach to filmmaking is to focus on a subject that moves me, and to find my way intuitively from there. Everything seems to happen naturally once I catch that spark. The first film I really connected to was Bicycle Thieves. So many moments in the film felt like complex life moments, not movie moments. This changed my conception of what cinema is capable of. I see film as a means of connecting us with our core and helping us live with ourselves and with each other.

Steven Spielberg went to town this week casting his upcoming Abraham Lincoln biopic, which already had Daniel Day-Lewis in place as Lincoln and Sally Field as his wife, Mary Todd.

Joining them in the film, based on Pulitzer-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, will be Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Hawkes, and a dozen other thesps.

Who else will log time inLincoln?

 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jones will play Republican congressman Thaddeus Stevens while Gordon-Levitt steps into the role of Abe ‘n’ Mary Todd’s eldest son, Robert.

Also joining the cast will be Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky.

From DreamWorks Studios:

Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner. It will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg.

The film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.

Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones will play Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican leader and powerful congressman from Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives. Stevens was a staunch supporter of abolishing slavery and was critical to writing the legislation that funded the American Civil War.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, known for his roles in “Inception,” “(500) Days of Summer,” and next year’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” will take on the role of Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President Lincoln and the only one to live past his teenage years.

 

Hollywood directing icon Steven Spielberg will film his upcoming historical drama, “Lincoln,” in the Richmond and Petersburg area.

Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced that the film, based on the book “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, will begin filming in the fall. The movie is slated for release in 2012.

Academy Award-winning actors Daniel Day-Lewis will play Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field will play Mary Todd Lincoln.

The news is a score for McDonnell who has pumped up the state’s film incentive fund. The incentive package includes $1 million from the Governor’s Motion Picture Opportunity Fund, $2.5 million from the Virginia Motion Picture Tax Credit program and $1.1 million in in-kind contributions, according to McDonnell’s office.

The amount of funding awarded to a project is based on Virginia workers hired and the purchase of Virginia based goods and services, according to the governor’s office.

“We are honored that Steven Spielberg, an award-winning and visionary film maker, has chosen the commonwealth for this important film. It is especially notable coming during the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and emancipation,” McDonnell said. “Steven is an exceptional storyteller who brings historic themes to life on screen, resulting in such important and influential films as ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ ‘Schindler’s List,’ ‘Munich and the mini-series ‘Band of Brothers.’ I have no doubt that ‘Lincoln’ will quickly join the ranks of those famous works.”

Spielberg said, in the news release, that “Virginia’s rich historic legacy, coupled with the remarkable period architecture found in Richmond and Petersburg, make Central Virginia the ideal location for this production.”

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Courtesy Richmond Times-Dispatch