Leading national experts will present the latest information on the de-velopment of and future prospects for HDTV at an all-day symposium hosted by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers’ Minnesota chapter (AICP/Minnesota). The event is slated for Monday, March 6, at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Minneapolis.
The symposium will explore recent transformations in high definition media and new venues for HDTV advertising. Experts will discuss digital origination, transferring film to HDTV technologies, up-conversion/down-conversion and surround sound.
There will also be demos of HD ware and equipment exhibits from Sony, JVC, Kodak and Discreet Logic. Equipment vendors will conclude the conference with a Q&A session.
"Education is key," related AICP/Minnesota president Kirk Hokanson, executive producer of Voodoo Films, Minneapolis. "It’s what we need to provide our [AICP] members with so they can best deal with new media and technologies."
The first AICP/Minnesota HDTV symposium took place in December ’98, and drew more than 200 people from the production, post and ad agency sectors. AICP/Minnesota estimated that roughly 70 percent of attendees were from ad agencies, and another 20 percent came from the production company community.
Agenda
Here’s a brief rundown of the agenda.
8:00-9:00 a.m.: Registration, breakfast & product demos.
9:00-10:30 a.m.: Session One: HDTV Overview.
Where is the technology today, and where might it be five years from now? How have things changed since our last seminar a year ago? New venues for HDTV advertising. Presenters include engineer Mark Schubin.
10:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Session Two: Origination-Digital and Film.
Presenters: Pierre de Lespinois, director/producer, Evergreen Films, LLC, Vancouver, B.C., will show HDTV digital origination material including the new 24p 1080I camera. DPs Steven Poster and Bill Bennett will show film transferred to HDTV. Oscar Loboza from Hi-Wire, Minneapolis, will address pertinent issues in telecine technology.
1:00-2:00 p.m.: Lunch
2:00-3:45 p.m.: Session Three: Post-Production: Dual Finishing-NTSC & HDTV.
How can we develop cost-effective ways to finish each format at the same time? What roles will up-conversion and down-conversion play? Will commercials move to surround sound? Presenters: de Lespinois; Leon Silverman, executive VP, LaserPacific Media Corporation, Hollywood; Chris Wheeler, senior development engineer, Eastman Kodak Corp., Hollywood.
4:00 p.m.: Session Four: Tech Talk. Panelists and equipment vendor representatives will be available to answer questions.
Separate from his AICP/Minnesota duties, Hokanson also serves as chairman of the national AICP’s new technologies committee, which seeks to educate AICP membership about evolving media and their impact on spot production. Citing such advances as DTV, DVDs and the Internet, Hokanson said that the work of the new technologies committee will ideally enable AICP "to be proactive in terms of researching these and other areas. We’ll be able to formulate recommendations and help companies make decisions about how to approach new technologies and what to invest in. Rather than companies always finding themselves having to react to what’s out there, they can take the initiative to make the most out of new technology and new media opportunities."u
The Long and Short of The IDA Documentary Awards’ Shortlists
The lineups are set as 20 feature-length and 20 short documentaries have been shortlisted for the 40th IDA Documentary Awards.
This year, the IDA Documentary Awards shortlists and nominees are selected by independent committees of 300 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 40-plus countries. More than 700 total entries were submitted for all categories from 77 countries.
Additional IDA Awards will be presented in the following categories: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Writing, Best Music Score, Best Curated Series, Best Episodic Series, Best Limited Series, Best TV Feature Documentary, Best Music Documentary, Best Audio Documentary, the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award, the ABC News VideoSource Award, and the Pare Lorentz Award.
All nominees in the above categories will be announced on November 19.
The 40th IDA Documentary Awards Ceremony will be held on December 5 at The Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.
Here’s a rundown of the feature and short film IDA Documentary Awards’ shortlists.
FEATURES SHORTLIST
Agent of Happiness
Black Box Diaries
Brisa
Dahomey
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Hollywoodgate
Igualada
Kamay
Mediha
Motherboard
My Sweet Land
No Other Land
Queendom
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Tell Them You Love Me
The Last Journey
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Water For Life (Agua Es... Read More