The MPC Feed @ Washington College

Are you an aspiring motion graphics designer? Here is some inspiration from 2 accomplished designers to get your creative juices flowing:

Eden Soto - http://www.edensoto.com
Demo Reel

Vitamin Devo - http://vitamindevo.com
Demo Reel (2004)
Mini Reel (2005)
Flash demo for his DJ work (2005)

Tags: 3D, after effects, creative inspiration, Demo reel, Flash, motion graphics

Are you an incoming first year or transfer student!  Do you have an interest in filmmaking and/or photography?  Don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Registration is now open for the Filmmaking and Photography Pre-Orientation Session, but seats are limited to only 12 participants!  Go to the Forms and Resoruces page, scroll down to Pre-Orientation Forms, print out the Pre-Orientation Registration form, and mail it in today!

Why should you attend this particular workshop?

• You’ll learn a TON of great info about photography and video production
• Classes are taught by award winning staff, including a workshop by Paul and Holly Fine, with 75 regional & 10 national Emmy Awards, 4 Peabody awards.
• We’ll be working individually and as a team to create a film that will be featured before all the pre-orientation sessions at the Prince Theater, as well as be entered into other industry competitions, featured on the WC homepage, WCMC.tv, iTunes U, Youtube, etc.
• You’ll get your hands on high end equipment, both items in our loaner pool, as well as professional gear that we don’t lend out.
• You’ll learn skills that will directly apply many academic assignments during your 4 years here, and may give you an added edge over your classmates.
• You’ll get to meet other like minded people who you’ll surely want to team up with in the future for MPC challenges or independent projects.
• When else during the year can you dedicate 4 solid days to anything without it conflicting with your academic or social calendar?

Tags: Boot Camp, Filmmaking, Paul & Holly Fine, Photography, pre-orientation, workshop

Metacafe.com has teamed up with podcaster Israel Hyman, who has been production Izzy Video podcasts for some time now.  Metacafe has a collection of videos that address many topics, including:

• Directing
• Shooting
• Lighting
• Sound
• Editing

Tags: Izzy Video, podcasts, Tutorials

There’s a ‘film music‘ section on moby.com where independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short can listen to and request to use original Moby sound tracks at no cost.

The music is free as long as it’s being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, however if you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license, with any money that’s generated being given to the humane society.

Moby has found a nice way to help a cause that is near and dear to him, while also helping film makers for free or cheap. Thanks Moby!

Tags: film, Free, gratis, moby, music, score, soundtrack, Video

Established only 4 months ago, This Week In Photography has quickly climbed to #4 for all Photography podcasts on iTunes. Pro photographers discuss the latest equipment and trends in digital photography. Get a behind the scenes look at the folks who develop the software you use and author the books you read.

Tags: Audio, Photo, Photography Podcast, TWIP

Need to pull a public domain video from YouTube to edit into your next documentary? You can do this and tons of other online and offline conversions with the links found here:

http://shorterlink.com/?V7H7WP

Tags: , conversion, download, transcode, video file converters