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Video Symphony Presents
“Pizza & Post”

With Special Guest, Russian Film Editor

Lala Zabolotskaya-Carter 

   
A 20-year industry veteran, Lala Zabolotskaya-Carter is recognized as one of Russia’s best film editors and is the choice for several internationally recognized film directors including Oscar-Winner Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrey Konchalovsky, Vasiliy Pichul, Maxamillian Schell and many others.

                      

When: Tuesday, June 30th 7-9PM                

Where: Video Symphony 266 E. Magnolia Blvd. Burbank                                                                          

 

She has been recognized around the world for her talent, winning the Television Professional of the Year award in 1995 (Los Angeles), The Nika Award from The Russian Academy Motion Picture Arts, and The Russian Arts Award (The Russian “Oscar”) for Best Editing on “Little Vera.” She also has won The Fipressi Award at The Venice International Film Festival, as well as The Grand Prizes at The Montreal International Film Festival, The Chicago Film Festival, and The Paris Film Festival.

“Pizza & Post” is a great opportunity to gain new insights, ask a few questions, network with your post-production peers and as always, eat a lot of pizza.

Visual Effects for Directors
by Hollywood Camera Work.

Literally years of work went into creating this class and it shows because there is a massive amount of content in this course.  In fact, it’s a 7-DVD course!

The purpose of this course is to learn what is possible and what is not, to give you the ability to predict and make good decisions on the set.

The Visual Effects for Directors course covers digital effects and their principles, so you have a better idea of what can be done.

This is great reference material for Directors or DPs.

It’s not really a how-to, it’s more of a who-does-what and what-exactly-do-they-do.  Knowledge is power and you want the power to know what is required for your film.

Visual Effects for Directors is a complete course that covers:
modeling and texturing, modeling, character animation, 3d, compositing, VFX Cinematography, matchmoving, tracking, how to make 3d more real, lighting, interacting with virtual elements, motion capture, object removal and crowd replication.  All of this in an easy to understand presentation that puts you in command of the terms and concepts needed to fully understand digital VFX.

There are two dvds that are devoted entirely to “Green Screen Intensive”. This is an area that can cost a production tons in post if not set up properly. With this course, you learn the details of all steps of the green screening process, even down to building and painting a green screen set.

Another benefit is that this course is presented from the viewpoint of how to accomplish all for as little money as possible.

How DO you direct and block on a virtual set? Would you like to know how to get your actor to interact within the set? This course takes you through actual demos and gives you the overall big picture.

It is an invaluable resource and will save you untold hours and dollars on all of your productions.

This course is a must for anyone who plans on having any amount of digital effects work on their project.

I’m one who emphasizes understanding the whole process so that you can make smart decisions in your work.   This course embodies that idea and uses real-life examples thus making you a “virtual” expert!

I recommend this course for Directors, DPs or for anyone wanting to get into digital VFX.

Go to http://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/vfx_index.html for clips, chapter summaries and order information.