Workshops Archives — NYCPPNEWS

Overcoming Cinematography Challenges in the age of COVID

Featuring DPs Eve Cohen and Jim Geduldick Live Zoom: Wednesday, December 16—11am PST Join G-Technology’s Martin Christien as he hosts a live chat with cinematographers Eve Cohen and Jim Geduldick to discuss the various challenges that they have each encountered regarding schedules, production workflows, products/gear, and ensuring safety within physical and virtual production spaces. Staying […]

REDucation Workshop

OVERVIEW Offering a fully immersive training environment, REDucation provides the on-set and post-production experience needed to feel confident when shooting with any of RED’s professional cameras. This is real-world training taught by industry professionals. REDucation is tailored for all skill levels, from students to working professionals. REDucation instructors teach application knowledge of RED’s entire RAW […]

Wacom tablets – Everything You Need to Know

Adorama Learning Center Thu, November 16, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST Meet with Wacom Tablet Product Manager Arturo Garza and learn everything that’s new on the Intuos, Intuos Pro, Cintiq & Mobile Studio Pro Product lines. Learn tips & tricks for photo editing, illustration & more. Free, but please register using this link. […]

NYC 3ds Max User Group Announces Master Classes

We wanted to give a shoutout to our friends at the 3ds Max user group. They launch their first series of Master Classes this Saturday, starting at 9am…

Can a Weekend MovieMaker Conference Help You Become a Better Screenwriter?

Most will agree that the mere act of attending classes or earning a filmmaking degree doesn’t make you a filmmaker…

Learn to Shoot and Edit with a DSLR at MEW

If you’ve wanted to learn what all the fuss is about shooting video with a DSLR, you can learn that along with some practical shooting and editing skills at Manhattan Edit Workshop’s DSLR Intensive Workshop…

Abel Cine Offers High-Speed Phantom Training

High quality high-speed shooting with a camcorder became practical with Vision Research’s introduction of its Phantom series cameras a few years ago…

Get to School at the Ghetto Film School

“We’re well into what some would label the digital media age. At least some folks in academia are thinking hard enough to give kids a grounding in their real world environment…”

How to Shoot & Post 3D in the Real World

Topics include: When to choose 3D; Where will anyone see my work?; and A look at budgets for independent filmmakers in 3D.

Shine a Better Light on Your Next Production

Want to brush up on your ability to quickly light a scene without spending too much on lighting?

Kami Asgar and Jessica Parks are post-production heavyweights who work with major studios, namely Sony. As a sound designer (Asgar) and as a post executive (Parks), their collective resume touches on everything from Apocalypto to Grandma’s Boy to Venom.

Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.