Month: December 2009

The first few DVD’s of Beauty and the Beast were churned out on Tuesday. The DVD features an easy to use interface and a fancy menu intro along with high-quality footage and a cover designed by Grace Lemieux. Due to high-demand all the discs that were burned have already sold out. Once vacation is over the discs will start being produced in higher quantity. The sooner you order the sooner you’ll get your disc as we are handing them out on a first come-first serve basis. If you are one of the few who recieved a disc without a cover you can print the above image, cut it out, and there you are. To ensure a good fit in the jewel case resize the image to 5 x 5 inches.

Don’t forget! Other DVD’s of past years are still in stock and available!
Winter Carnvial ’09 – $5 (As showcased over the school network)

Cabaret ’07 – Practically free. Please buy them, we have too many.

Downfalls – Darned cheap. The One Act from…last year? year before that? I don’t recall. Anyway, you should buy one.

If there is a DVD that you would like that you don’t see here, please ask Ms. Shaw or Spencer Roberts. We should be able to burn you a copy.

I am almost done with my PSA, I need to fix he length quickly and then convert to quick time, the only thing stopping me is a couple of people who will stay unnamed who like to kidnap Stephen Speilberg…. cough…cough (Grace and Spencer). I will be done and it should be good.

The PSA has been completed. And it’s the best thing that I’ve ever worked on. Which isn’t saying much, but I still believe that Steve and I managed to do a relatively decent job with what we had.

This week I continued to work on the doc for The Putt Putt Syndrome. I discovered that we have at least until February to finish it so now I can stop stressing out as much. But it still needs to get done. It’s coming together… I want some fresh eyes (Shaw and Spencer) to look at it and give me some input because i want it to be good. I interviewed Evan and Spencer to get the student perspective… still have to interview Shaw, Grace, Lindsay, Alison, Dalton… possibly some others… so much footage that I don’t know what to do with… still trying to figure out the exact angle… good stuff. 

We’ve fallen behind on our PSA. We had planned to film this past Saturday, but we were unable to because all the cameras were being used to film Beauty and The Beast. We’re going to film Wednesday. We’ll spend all of Friday’s class editing. However, I’m not going to be here next Monday, but Katherine and Ryan should be able to complete editing by then.

Hopefully, I’ll get caught up on my TVPs by the end of class today.

I’m going to see Avatar in Imax 3D in Saco this Saturday! I’m pretty stoked because it looks awesome! Grace L. told me today that the guy has been working on technology for the film for 14 years! That’s unbelievable! Hopefully, it’ll live up to all the hype. Anyway, I’m gonna bounce now.

-Samstar

Just thought I’d remind everyone that we have a Youtube account which we can upload your best videos to. If you have a project that you are proud of and you would like uploaded to the Rambler Youtube account, let us know!

This week I really got into After Effects and was able to explore several cool features. I’ve followed along with some Video Copilot Tutorials and have made good use of the VC products we have purchased. I think I’m beginning to know my way around the software, but there is soooo much it will take a while before I know where everything, much less how to use it well. I think I am to the point however where I can take an idea and, with some work, bring it to fulfillment. This week I worked more on tracking, some keying, and I started going through the effects in AE to see what we had, and what we could potentially do with it