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Chatting with new Mavericks: Kickstarter for Events…

Posted by on Jul 2, 2012 in Behind-the-Scenes, Event Coverage, Festivals, Interviews, News | 0 comments

One of the personalities I got a chance to know is just launched DarkestGoth Magazine editor, GV Pasclato. Recently, he and his team started working on a new way of using Kickstarter in the form of the mira nocta Bluegrass Goth Festival. I personally hadn't thought of using Kickstarter for an event, but had to admit it had lots of possibilities for Independent filmmakers who might want to do their own film festival or a multi-faceted exploration of a few film series with cult followings.

I liked what their ideas were enough that I was even willing to speak on camera to some of their readers, who have a lot of similarities to our filmmaking audience, and even to agree to show the Day 419 film with a Q&A if their event is funded.

With that said, here's a brief interview that GV was kind enough to give me about what they're doing:

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CS6: San Jose Reviewer’s Workshop Early Insights

Posted by on May 12, 2012 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Event Coverage, Industry, News, Trade Shows | 2 comments

Training in the Adobe Headquarters in San Jose

San Jose:
CS6 Reviewer’s Workshop

Training in the Adobe Headquarters in San Jose

This past week, I had a chance to check out some pretty incredible new features from Adobe’s new CS6 release along with Flash reviewer Mike Muwanguzi and Photoshop reviewer, Nate Eckelbarger.

While I’ve had a chance to receive training from Adobe on their new products for a number of years now, this is the first time the training has happened when we weren’t under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Normally, a select group of press representatives is invited to explore the new software at either Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose or at a special event in NYC 6-8 weeks before the release of the new software. In the past, this time barrier between exposure and ability to share has resulted in a loss of overall excitement as even the most cutting edge improvements become simply accepted shortly after exposure! Since the NDA usually lasts until they start releasing the actual software, the fact that the software launched the Friday before the training in San Jose meant that the NDA had expired by this past Tuesday when we began. read more

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Getting Near Perfect Video From Your New Camera: The Basics

Posted by on Apr 25, 2012 in Articles, General, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

When you get a new camera, the first thing you want to know is: what are the best settings to make it look like a million dollars? The short answer: you're already asking the wrong questions. This does not mean there aren't ways to tweak your camera, but those are final touches to some much more preliminary understandings. The radio station you listen to while you drive your car is a much later choice than learning how to drive your car in the first place.

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