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..
Gary Adcock on File-Based Workflows
Watch video of AJA Intensive Presentation in NYC.
From production to post, the typical workflow is moving rapidly to an all file-based pipeline.
AJA offers you some of the best tools in the business to enable efficient and powerful pipelines with the most flexibility. From camera, you can acquire to one of AJA's Ki Pro family of products for Apple ProRes workflows. With KONA desktop and IO Express mobile solutions, you can acquire and edit in everything from Sony MXF files to R3D files, covering resolutions all the way from SD to 4K. For output and mobile file playback and distribution needs, you can transfer timelines back to Ki Pro for AV, projection, and playout needs.
Your workflow options are vast; to explore AJA's offerings with a range of NLE and VFX solutions, watch as AJA product evangelist Gary Adcock conducts an informative and compelling Intensive presentation.
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Speaker: Gary Adcock
Gary Adcock is an AJA product evangelist and the principle information architect and workflow specialist at Studio 37 Inc, as well as a working I/A 600 DIT and 3D Stereographer.
Knowledgeable on a vast array of camera, post, and production technologies, Gary has been the Technical Chair for NAB’s Director of Photography Conference since 2007, in addition to speaking around the world on HDTV and Digital Cinema since 2004. Gary regularly contributes to Macworld LLC as an editorial writer and reviewer, and is a long term member of the community as a moderator and blogger at CreativeCow.net.









