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Hollywood comes Home to Northern Virginia (Centreville)
Article by Centreville Patch

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Photo credit: Joe Carabeo

Najla Bashirah, actress gives me a welcoming hug for a job well done!

Photo credit: Joe Carabeo

Rising stars Jessica Luza and Marion Storm pose with the Director - Video Village for the film!

Photo credit: Centreville Patch

Lights and Limos - Time to do it Hollywood style!!!

Pizza Verdi (short film) 2011 from gary nadeau on Vimeo.

About the Film

Pizza Verdi is full of surprises. From the establishing shot capturing an African American male (Norm Lewis) carrying a pizza box as he cautiously enters a luxurious New York apartment through ensuing scenes in which the apparent interloper wanders through the apartment occasionally calling out and taking inventory of his surroundings: designer furniture, original art on the walls, an expensive watch left atop a pile of cash on a side table; the viewer is apprehensive and uneasy. Along the way, we make some assumptions which may—or may not—be correct. There is no dialogue, which heightens the suspense and, initially, no sound. When sound becomes part of the film, the familiar aria Caro Nome from Verdi’s Rigoletto, it is so unexpected it literally blows us away.

Register NOW to lock in your seat at our June and July events. Go to our Meeting and Upcoming Event Section for details!

Go to the DCFCPUG.ORG site
Under Member portal, log in
Under Meetings tab, you will find the instructions.
Two choices: Use the manual discount at the eventbrite event site link (found under the main menu, at the Upcoming Events section (left pane of site). This is the long version.

Or just click the red DISCOUNT EXPRESS LINK (June) or JULY DISCOUNT Express Link
These two links have the code embedded for easy access to the free entry for the event.

June – AJA and Autodesk (Smoke on Mac 2012 edition) @ Resolution Post, Fairfax, VA
July – GenArts, Visual Effects – the Hollywood favorite for effects @ Capital One Bank – Mark Leisher Productions offices (upper floor), Bethesda, MD (nearest Metro is Bethesda on the RED line)

Medical Center Metro and Bethesda Metro Stops

Path from Bethesday Metro Stop to Capital One Meeting Venue + optimal parking spot

Rob and I worked on a feature film last year that will be released sometime later this year.
Here are some of the many films he has created props.
You’ll recognize many of the films in his demo reel.
Filmography:

• Serenity
• Rocky
• The Assassination of Jesse James
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith
• Balls of Fury
• Terminator – Salvation
• Mission Impossible III
• Letters from IWO JIMA
• Spiderman III
• Transformers
• Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest

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Here are three quick observations on technology for the coming year:

1. For 2011, camera technology will continue to change EXTREMELY quickly. This means that any camera you buy today will be out-of-date in less than 2 years. If you can’t make it pay off in that short a period of time, you are better off renting. I don’t see any incentive for camera technology to stabilize for another couple of years.

2. Apple will update Final Cut Studio in 2011 — probably early in 2011. Apple is not abandoning the platform. This is not the apocalypse. The world will not end. I’ll have more news on this when I’m allowed to talk about it.

3. The capabilities of your storage will become more important than the capabilities of your computer. And, as a corollary, tapeless media means that media asset management will become mission-critical for even small shops. Whichever company solves the puzzle of how to make asset management informationally-rich, while at the same time easy to access, will make a fortune. You can’t edit what you can’t find.

Enjoy this 12 minute tutorial from Steve Hullfish, author of the book, ” The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction” on Focal Press.

Courtesy of Steve Hullfish

Joe Carabeo

Read more about my friend and colleague, Joe Carabeo over on the Union 206 site HERE.

The Amazing World of Joe Carabeo

Hitting the digital airwaves - representing...

Just announced… I will be on the Larry Jordan, Digital Production BuZZ radio show for DCFCPUG!
Will be carried all over the world, and at the GVExpo as Larry is the official Podcast for the show too!
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Stay tuned for it!

Rod

As if you didn’t need yet another reason to attend our special event on 1 December at the Expo!

Sign up now and let’s make a big splash for the world!

Featuring DCFCPUG Leader - Rodney Mitchell this month!