Creating Content in Houses of Worship
Veteran filmmaker Ken Wales will share insights on the impact of entertainment technology on storytelling as the keynote speaker of Createasphere’s Executive Marketplace for Houses of Worship this July.
Ken was the Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed and award-winning CBS Television series Christy. He enjoyed a long running partnership with director Blake Edwards, producing many films with him including The Great Race, Darling Lili, and The Revenge of the Pink Panther among others. Ken also produced the Emmy nominated, Golden Globe winner miniseries John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, and was associate producer for the first season of Cagney and Lacey. He spent time in the studio system at Walt Disney Pictures, where he was Vice President of Production. Ken has most recently earned acclaim for the powerful film Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce’s grueling but victorious campaign to end Britain’s slave trade. Read more..
John Underkoffler, Oblong Industries, Opens the World with the Wave of a Hand
A gripping keynote at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference
When John Underkoffler presented last month’s Keynote Address at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management Conference in Universal City, he was met with the conference equivalent of “Bravo! Encore!” from an enthusiastic audience. Underkoffler had taken attendees into the world of gestural interfaces, his viewpoint of the evolution of the personal computer, and offered insights about the profound meaning of data.
Underkoffler is the Founder and Chief Scientist for Oblong Industries, a company aiming to transform the way we work, create and collaborate. Their g-speak spatial operating environment (SOE) is a radically new platform that made its public debut in the tech-forward movie Minority Report. Read more..
LOUIS CIOFFI, ACE: DEXTER, IN THE CUT
Missing your favorite show? Check out this interview from Louis Cioffi, ACE while you wait for the new season to begin this fall.
Louis Cioffi, ACE, has found “Dexter” to be an enthralling assignment for the past 4 seasons. An award-winning editor for his work on the highly acclaimed series, Cioffi joined “Dexter” in 2007. Cioffi has worked extensively in network, cable and features and is currently working on independent film, “Hidden Moon.”
Createasphere: What was your first job in “the industry? Read more..
What’s Coming and Where Are We Going?
Written by Christine Purse
The Post Production Master Class.
Even as the economics and the mechanics of production and post-production change – in many cases radically – content continues to be created, manipulated, managed and distributed. There are stories to tell and content pipelines to fill. In fact, the sheer volume of content is growing at a dizzying rate. From snowboarding videos with a million YouTube views, to theatrical features in 3D, to broadcast and cable programming, to studio-built web series all the way through the restoration and archiving of entire libraries, our industry is engaged in an incredible array of activities around content. This growth has been accompanied by tremendous opportunities, such as the easily deployed tools available in a democratized technological environment (think of free or nearly free color grading tools.) It also comes with tremendous challenges, such as managing incredibly sophisticated workflows. There is a need for those at work throughout the content ecosystem to remain informed and connected so they can become aware of new opportunities as well as new solutions.
As recently as 10 years ago, the landscape was radically different. The deployment of digital cameras, professional and prosumer, was growing, but film production was prevalent, and distribution was limited to broadcast and theatrical. Watching a video on a phone, playing a game on an iPad, or downloading an entire array of sophisticated applications simply were not options. Not so today. From file-based management of content to a variety of capture devices and a proliferation of post production tools, we are all required to understand and integrate a sophisticated digital technology kit into our thought process.
Createasphere has developed the Post Production Master Class to put smart people in the room with other smart people – to discuss the hot button topics, look at experiences and projects, and share important information. A look at the schedule for the Post Production Master Class next week in Burbank reveals an impressive collection of expertise and brain power devoted to the topics that keep us all up at night: How does the workflow between the set and the cutting room impact both? What about the onslaught of on-set tools? What’s going on in color space and management? What is the big picture? And, of course… how do you help a dolphin tell his tale?
Take a look at the speaker lineup below and consider making time to gather with some of the most innovative, interesting and experienced men and women working behind the scenes to make and deliver content. It’s a rare opportunity to put your thinking cap on, jump in the conversation and connect. I hope you will join us.
Speakers include:
Alex Grossman (Active Storage)
Andre Trejo (LaserPacific/Technicolor)
Blair Paulsen (4K Ninjas)
Brian Gaffney (Technicolor)
Bruno Munger (ALT Systems)
Carol Littleton, ACE
Dylan Carter (Encore)
Harvey Rosenstock, ACE
John Bailey, ASC
John Daro (FotoKem)
Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC
Kyle Jackson (Tunnel Post)
Leandro Marini (Assimilate)
Marc Sadeghi (Rising Sun Pictures)
Matthew Flint (Picture Head)
Michael Cioni (Light Iron)
Mike Sowa (LaserPacific)
Pankaj Bajpai (Encore)
Ramy Katrib (Digital Film Tree)
Sarah Priestnall (Codex)
Seth Hallen (Testronic)
Stephanie Argy (American Cinematographer Magazine)
Steve Bannerman (Assimilate)
Steve Cronan (5th Kind)
Thomas Tannenberger (GLoW)
Tom Vice (FotoKem)
Walter Fernandez (American Cinema Editor Magazine)
To register for the Post Production Master Class in Burbank on November 4-5, 2011, visit www.createasphere.com/post.
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