How to improve almost any photo
In this fun presentation, Cathy Church will show you ways to improve your photos with many ways from simple changes in camera angle and cropping to more complex ways with camera controls and photo shop. You are welcome to send her up to two photos in advance of the talk to see how she might make them better. Send photos at least 1080 pixel wide or 768 pixels high and not more than 2 MB each to chchurch@icloud.com.
Music producers David Shaw and Marc Dandrea of BPM music are coming to the festival to do a panel on writing music for film and TV. Here is their bio:
Best Placed Music (BPM) was founded back in 1999 by TV/Film composer Dave Shaw and Multi-Platinum music producer Marc D’Andrea under the name Phat Planet Music, Inc. Over the last 15 years Phat Planet Music, Inc. (PPM, Inc.) has built a formidable music production empire consisting of top tier musical placements in Film, Television and Informercials all over the globe. Best known for their high quality work, rapid turn around times and unparalleled customer service, PPM, Inc. has continued to grow rapidly year over year. From Film to Informercials, Websites to TV Series, and everything in between PPM, Inc. guarantee they will make your project sound as good as it looks. In honor of this rapid growth and proven track record of success a new name was born: Best Placed Music (BPM). BPM is the reflection of what we do at our core: Provide the best, highest quality, perfectly placed music to match your project and fit your production budget. Just pick up the phone or shoot us an email, BPM is here to assist you no matter the size, scale or time constraints of your project.
New Art Forms: Film, Video and Time Based Media
The lecture will explore how the new art forms in time-based media intersect with culture. In an image saturated society with speed and feedback from electronic media a seeming necessity, how do we communicate ideas in new ways? How can time be used as a formal element in art? A brief history of film as cinema will be compared to the development of structural and experimental filmmakers. How has this history contributed to video art? We’ll look at how this has affected our expectations of the moving image.