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The Future of Student Films

Posted by michael on from the i-will-not-revise-my-film-to-make-greedo-shoot-first dept.

EL-34 writes "With professional visual effects tools and technology readily available in film schools across the country, students have been able to do more than ever before. At the USC School of Cinema-Television, SCFX teaches the trade, and helps create VFX for various student films. With endowments from Robert Zemeckis, EA, AlienWare, Intel, and Adobe, cinema students are able to achieve feats never before possible in animation, rendering, and compositing. At the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, students even have access to HD equipment, a Vicon 3-D Motion Capture System, and a green screen stage."

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  1. A very good idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...would be for someone to go to China and film all the atrocities committed by the government and its citizens against not only each other but innocent Tibetans as well. When people start to see for themselves what this government and its people are doing, people will develop a more accurate (and less favorable) opinion of the Chinese and businesses will be economically pressured to avoid China.

  2. And yet... by Parallax+Blue · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...with all these WONDERFUL tools we have at our disposal, somehow EVERY group project ALWAYS has to use a Powerpoint presentation to get their messages across. It's really annoying.

    1. Re:And yet... by wastingtape · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Yea. I know what you mean. I took a business speaking class a while back, which typically required oral presentations once about every two weeks. Pretty much everyone used powerpoint for thier visuals aspect with a few exceptions. Quite a few just copy and pasted thier outline from Word into Powerpoint and left the default white background and black text point size 10.

      I decided to be different for my second project and use... the overhead projector! Yea, that dusty thing sitting in the corner. I used Illustrator and designed all my "slides". There weren't any fancy transitions or sound effects, but i was able to delever the data i wanted to in an effective way. Believe it or not i used this method more and more as the semester went on. Why? I didn't have to 1.) haul a laptop to class. 2.) cross my fingers that the battery was charged that windows wouldn't crash during my presentation 3.) worry about which slide was next i can't remember (since i couldn't just look down at them on the podeum). I found the overhead projector to be quite simple and easy to use.

      Funny how that works huh? Once you become dis-enchanted with technology you're able to judge it based on it's true merit, and evaluate those problems for which it is the solution of choice and those problems for which something else is more effective, simpler, or more efficient.

  3. The Student of Future Films... by felonius+maximus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Where is?

    When is??

    What the fuck is???

  4. Re:The Age of Independant by ceeam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FIND THE FISH!

    And it went, wherever I, did go.