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Location, Location, Location!

June 30th, 2009

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Date:
Tuesday, June
30th, 2009

Time:
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location:
Corporate Helicopters of San Diego
3753 John J Montgomery Drive, Ste 2
San Diego, California 92123
(858) 505-5650

 

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Recorded Info By Phone: 858-633-1305

Cost To Attend:
Free to members, $15 for Non-members if you RSVP by Tuesday, May 26th, 2009, otherwise $20 at the door.

New pricing, but still an extraordinary value!  Save $5 with your rsvp.  (It's a great time to become a full member at the same low price of $160 for the whole year.)


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Location, Location, Location!

One of the advantages of producing film and video projects in San Diego is that within the borders of our county, we have nearly every climate and a wide array of urban and suburban landscapes. Need gritty downtown shots? Check! Upscale Victorian mansion? Check! Old-west ghost town? Check! Snow-coved peaks to marshy swamps to desert flatlands? Check, check, and check!

But as a professional, how do you legally and safely gain access to some of San Diego's best locations? And just as important, how do you find the hidden treasures that are going to give your project the perfect look and feel? At this month's MCA-I meeting, Kathy Mccurdy - Director of Feature Films at the San Diego Film Commission and Josh Oliver - owner of JFO Productions will give presentations on how to find great locations, how much you can expect to spend on locations, when permits are necessary (hint: almost always), the process of getting permits, and why it is critical to your business and your clients to get the location process right!

Corporate Helicopters has been providing the Motion Picture and Television Industries with Helicopters, Skilled Film Pilots, In-house Camera Systems and Support Services in Southern California and Baja Mexico since 1989.

 

 

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Last Meeting ReCap:


Fixing Mediocre Audio and Video:
What Happens When You HAVE to Fix it in Post?
 
Everyone knows that acquiring pristine audio and video is critical to the success of any project. But what happens when your source material is less than perfect? That was the subject of May’s San Diego MCA-I meeting - Fixing it in Post: Improving Mediocre Audio/Video Source Material.

The meeting started off with a vendor’s corner featuring Richard Crow talking about the new online database for feature films, conventions, television, conferences, commercials, exhibitions, concerts, tradeshows, corporate videos, documentaries, music videos called 360 LIVE.

Since sound is 50% of the picture, the first presenter of the evening was Robert Mason. Robert is owner of Doghouse Productions, a digital recording and post production company that specializes in words and sounds for film, video, and multimedia productions. In his usual, easy-to-comprehend manner, Robert explained the complex physics of sound to the audience. He went on to describe how understanding physical properties is critical to making good decisions when improving audio. As part of Robert's presentation, he played a short snippet of dialogue that everyone agreed sounded terrible. Utilizing some of the fundamentals he had explained earlier, Robert took unusable dialogue and turned it into something that was workable while the audience watched!

After Robert finished wowing the audience with his audio magic, Brian Kim, Creative Director of Groovy Like a Movie stepped up to the microphone. Groovy Like a Movie is a San Diego based video production company with a mission to inspire people to think, feel, and do. Brian described a range of video problems and mistakes that people make. While there are many technical tricks and tools to improve a bad video source (including deliberately introducing noise, blur, or manual frame-by-frame touch-ups), the focus of Brian's talk was on being creative with your solutions; the most important tools in an editor's arsenal are their brain and their creativity. Brian finished his talk by taking a clip of the Flinstones smoking cigarettes and turning it into something that could have been the opening to an "Adult Swim" style show.

Special thanks to Canon USA and Video Gear for providing raffle prizes, and Empire State Filters for providing the raffle grand prize. Video Gear Rentals also generously loaned the PA system for the evening.

 



Upcoming Meetings:

 

08/09

Summer Beach Party at Crown Point
   

09/23

Member Showcase
   

 

 



 
Connie Terwilliger
Shining Star Recipient
and
Board Member Craig Bentley


Bill Manning
Shining Star Recipient
and
Chapter President Jeff Gelder
 


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MCA-I Meetings are held monthly. You do not have to be a member to attend. The San Diego Chapter of the Media Communications Association - International (MCAI formerly ITVA) is an organization of San Diego multimedia production and video production professionals.