Next Meeting: Monday, 01/03/11

New Media Coalition next meeting: Monday, 01/03/11

Last night's meeting was great...

Hearty hello to Rich from JP. Thanks for coming to your first meeting, thanks for the delicious cheese balls and kudos for showing us your editing prowess on the biopic of conceptual artist Lynda Benglis. (Brian, pls forward this email to Rich)

Brian Galford brought and carved the roast beast and taught us all iPhone CPR (!) with his cool new video (snazzy editing, cinematic directing, sweet mustang, sharp EX-1 photography) on his client's new iPhone CPR instruction app.

Chuck Green brought truffled mashed potatoes and organic candy canes (!), hauled his full EX-3 rig in and demonstrated his new Manhattan portable HD video monitor. Impressive.

Brian Henderson brought chocolate stars and  showed clips from the newest episode of the Doritos Super Bowl spec he shot recently with the Phantom high-speed HD camera and the TV series he's shooting (EX-3, A-camera; V1u, B-Camera) for Discovery Channel.

Mike Yip brought pasta/broccoli/grilled chicken and screened a staggeringly beautiful timelapse film (Canon + Red MX) from Tom Lowe on Vimeo.

Chuck Green couldn't attend, but he did post some cool audio processing info on Sunday night to our BLOG.

Roberto Mighty prepared rice and beans and shared a tragicomic story about getting a Master rejected by a TV station because of audio dropouts. Lessons learned: 1. Think twice before accepting work for broadcast involving legacy formats, even DigiBeta. 2. Bad audio will mess up great video every time. He then showed the first short film to be completed on the new Sony PMW F-3, Convergence, by Martin Scanlan. Shot in Paris, at night. Two Talent. We oohed and aahed at the seemingly effortless control of depth of field, regardless of focal length. Envy meters were pinning throughout the room.

Finally, at the end, we solved the economic problems of the world and the federal government's challenges, too. That was really fun.

Overall, it looks like coalition members are stepping up their game in conceptualization, composition, shooting, editing and overall technical/aesthetic knowledge. This is evidenced by the increased quality of work on offer last night. That's what we're here for, isn't it? Kudos to all.

Happy New Year! Here's to an even better 2011.