The upcoming National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, which will take place April 14-19 in Las Vegas, is slated to host plenty of conference material to update and educate attendees about HD production and postproduction.
Among the events to consider is the Production/Post World Conference, which will host training and education sessions from April 13-18. An “HD Summit” session will be held each day from April 14-18.
Training sessions will be offered on technologies including Avid’s Xpress Pro, Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Shake, Adobe’s After Effects and Premiere Pro, Sony’s Vegas and more.
There will also be a session on HD cameras that will include an explanation of the HDV format for those weighing their options.
Editors Steven Rosenblum, A.C.E. (Blood Diamond) and James Thomas (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) will deliver keynotes. NAB presents the Production/Post World Conference with training business firm Future Media Concepts.
Meanwhile, conference partners NAB, the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California (ETC@USC) and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) are planning the annual Digital Cinema Summit for April 14-15.
“As digital technologies bring the various sectors of the entertainment industry closer together, the Digital Cinema Summit grows more germane to our NAB audience,” said NAB VP of science and technology John Marino. ETC@USC and SMPTE will draw back the curtain on key innovations that impact our postproduction, research and manufacturing, and Internet broadcast communities.
The two-day event will feature keynotes, case studies and panels examining real world successes and challenges across the entire digital production and postproduction pipeline.
Saturday’s lineup, programmed by SMPTE, focuses on topics including technologies for creating digital intermediates (DIs) and new workflows. Chris Cookson, CTO for Warner Bros. Entertainment, is scheduled to deliver Saturday’s keynote address that will explore what the industry can do to prepare for and empower the long-term promise of digital cinema image quality.
Sunday’s program, produced by ETC@USC, will look at creating and distributing digital motion picture content for consumption in the movie theater and the new digital home. Sessions will address the digital pipeline, and include a pair of case studies analyzing production of two recent features.
Information about conference sessions and exhibitions at the upcoming NAB can be found at www.nab.org.
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More