SHOWBIZ EXPO - NY March 28 - FREE Registration

SHOWBIZ EXPO - New York
NYC Sunday March 28
New York Hilton
FREE Registration

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ShowBiz Expo is the LARGEST networking event for the Entertainment Industry.

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SHOWBIZ EXPO - Los Angeles
LA Sat/Sun April 24-25
LA Convention Center
FREE Registration

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CLICK HERE FOR THE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE!

Just some of the great workshops that you can attend...

FREE KEYNOTE: Producing a film on Low/No Budget
Writing the Spec Script
How to Make it in New York
How to finally get CARDED! (DGA, WGA, SAG, AFTRA, Equity, etc)
Fast Pitch - Pitch your idea to Investors
"Paranormal Activity" (Turning a $15k film into the most profitable INDE Film Ever!)
How to Get an Agent in 30 Days or Less
Raise Money for your Project
How to Enter & Win Film Fests Around the Globe
Urban is Where It's At!
Inside the Reality Show World
Getting a Distribution Deal
Social Media 101
and so many more....

*Interested in exhibiting? Space is available!*
Call us at 212.404.2345

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What is the future of Television???

The Internet is challenging TV's prominence but how will TV need to change so that it still has a place in society?

Imagine a mix of your computer, your playstation and your tv. A digital you participating in shows and games; Real time and sharing 'on your tv' which is not TV anymore in the classic sense but interactive and inviting to participate in adventures, a quiz program and many more things all possible somewhere in the future due to the progress in digital developments.

The TV market is ‘on the move’ – competition is growing and digital channels via ISP’s and IPTV providers are now crashing through what was once the walled fortress of broadcast television. Interactive content and social media are the buzz and broadcasters are looking for both innovation and revenue generation models that fall outside of the traditional advertising box of the past. And the need for all types of content is growing exponentially, of which one is created by users themselves.

READ MORE - http://agoramedia.co.uk/blog/tag/social-tv/

Sound Effects Archive

ONE OF THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF FREE SOUNDS ON THE INTERNET

Now with 1,980 high quality, attractive sound effects for use in web pages, games and multimedia applications.

SEE AND HEAR: http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

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LYNDA.com ONLINE TRAINING LIBRARY

Whether you’re into digital photography, web design and development, motion graphics, or just need to brush up on Excel, you can learn all the software skills you need to gain a competitive edge with our online tutorials.

Learn the latest tools and techniques with access to 741 online courses and counting! Get unbiased, clear, and comprehensive training in 3D, audio, video, photography, graphic design, web and interactive design, business, and development from expert instructors, 24/7.

VISIT and LEARN MORE - http://www.lynda.com

Pro Tools Tutorial : Using Video for Sound Editing in Pro Tools

Free Pro Tools Tutorial Expert: Alexander Markowski!

Learn how to use video to edit sound with expert tips and advice on sound editing in this free video. Alexander Markowski has been using Pro Tools since 1991. Much of his professional experience in sound engineering for television and feature films is in Pro Tools.

The Toshiba Camileo S20

The Toshiba Camileo S20 is a camcorder that will follow you wherever you go.

Although it has a lightweight, compact body, this tiny camcorder is loaded with a 5-megapixel CMOS sensor to capture videos in Full HD. With the Camileo S20, you can record images with 1,920 x 1,080 pixels and videos in formats optimized for web, Vimeo and YouTube. You'll be able to snap whenever the mood takes you and be sure to get the best-quality results!

The 3-inch screen on the Camileo S20 swivels, giving you full control over your shot. Meanwhile, multimedia content can be saved onto the built-in 128 MB internal memory or onto an SD or SDHC card (max. 32 GB). There's even a photo mode with integrated flash to help you if you're a beginner.

That's not all though! The Camileo S20 is equipped with HDMi connectivity and a USB 2.0 port too, not forgetting a long-life battery for up to 1 hour and 30 minutes of use per charge.

BEAUTIFUL - NYC FREE ADMISSION FEB. 9

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 @ 7pm

Korean Cultural Service will be screening FREE KOREAN MOVIES

at Tribeca Cinemas
FREE ADMISSION
54 Varick Street, NYC

(on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops) Price? Free. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. Or if you want to guarantee a seat, just RSVP to info@koreanculture.org or call 212-759-9550

BEAUTIFUL
(2008, 88 minutes, New York Premiere)

First timer Juhn Jai-Hong took an unfinished screenplay by his mentor, Kim Ki-Duk (The Isle, Bad Guy), and turned it into this insane slice of grand guignol social critique that sends up Korea’s obsession with plastic surgery with a side helping of maximum carnage.

Kim is a pretty young woman often mistaken for an actress. Men are always hitting on her, and she’s uncomfortable being the object of their sexual fantasies. Her discomfort deepens when she’s attacked by a stalker who thinks he’s in love with her, and then the cops accuse her of leading the guy on by looking sexy. Even the doctor at the hospital hits on her. Her only hope: to erase her beauty by any means necessary. A big budget, 35mm production, BEAUTIFUL is a queasy
mix of body horror, sexual politics, eating disorders, self-mutilation and homicidal rage.

Watch highlights from the critically acclaimed Korean film 'Beautiful' directed by Juhn Jaihong.

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!

Directions To thetvnews.tv/combridges
Super Bowl Commercials Rating Party!

Specific directions on how to get into and participate in the hottest virtual party for the TV industry on Super Bowl Sunday.
It all begins at 7pm eastern / 4pm Pacific.
Be there!

"This Ain't Gilligan's Island XXX" and "The Devil Wears Nada"

Who will surf 3D TV?
If history has the answer, look to porn, vidgames

Enthusiasm for 3D television has taken off in just the last few months, with the explosive box office success of "Avatar" that has doubtless fueled some of the new-found belief that 3D TV's time has finally come.

The problem is that theaters are selling 3D at a premium because it's an experience, not necessarily a way of life. People watch TV differently -- pausing, channel surfing, going to the bathroom -- which alters that dynamic, no matter how much the sets improve and the cost diminishes, as they inevitably will.

Any such discussion about greater immersion in video games or porn fosters a rather unappetizing image of young men sitting alone in living rooms sounding like Beavis and Butt-head, but let's face it, without "Star Trek" and porn, the Internet would not have gotten off the ground nearly as fast.

READ MORE By BRIAN LOWRY - http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014821.html?categoryid=1682&cs=1

© Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Good Luck, Paramount!

My email box was ablaze this past Friday with news that Paramount was forming their own micro-budget film division. The goal is to make twenty $100k no-budget features a year. After their success with “Paranormal Activity,” (a film they DID NOT PRODUCE, by the way), this sounds like a case of ‘give the guy a rope and now he thinks he’s a cowboy.’ All I can say is, “Good Luck, Paramount!”

As someone who has devoted most of the last 15 years to no-budget filmmaking and spent the last six years specifically working on this kind of a multi-film model, not to mention the last five years teaching no-budget filmmaking and making my own no-budget features, I have this cautionary note for Paramount: it’s harder than it looks.

READ MORE - http://www.filmradar.com/indie_blog/item/good_luck_paramount/

DVD FLICK: Simple, Streamlined DVD Burner

Normally. I just use Windows Movie Maker when I need to burn the occasional video DVD, but this weekend I ran into a predicament: I already had videos on my computer (rather than using the utility to download the video from the camera directly) and the clips were in a variety of formats: MPEG, AVI, and even QuickTime, a year's worth of little snippets of the kids playing and acting insane. Windows Movie Maker couldn't even open most of the clips.

Solution: DVD FLICK, a freeware utility that can make DVDs (and ISO files) from whatever video clips you have lying around and takes minimal effort to figure out.

READ MORE By Christopher Null: The Working Guy - http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111614;_ylt=Apze_G53qdadoN6Ob_1b7PzxLJA5
Copyright © 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

Make Your Own Video Mashups

Make Your Own Video Mashups for YouTube

LEARN MORE By Rick Broida, PC World -
http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/make-your-own-video-mashups-for-youtube/205867;_ylt=Avhc21rdsdnPH6N8B9WCuGqmLZA5

Copyright © 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

Talking About a Revolution (for a Digital Age)

This wonderful news story in the New York Times is must reading. It compares the independent film revolution of the 1960's with today's new media revolution.

Lance Weiler, a D.I.Y. visionary whose 1998 mock documentary “The Last Broadcast,” (directed with Stefan Avalos) was the first movie released in theaters digitally, understood that younger audiences couldn’t be reached the way that their Fellini-loving grandparents once were. Younger audiences might not be more active moviegoers than their grandparents (watching a film is never a passive experience), but they live in an interactive, media-saturated world. These days “everyone is his or her own media company,” Mr. Weiler wrote in Filmmaker Magazine. “With the push of a button they can publish, shoot or record and moments later it can be online for the world to see.” This audience, in other words, has its own D.I.Y. ethos, and sometimes can be part of a movie’s creative process.

The major studios are certainly paying attention to what Mr. Weiler and other do-it-yourselfers have to say. For the release of its recent hit “Paranormal Activity,” a digital-age spin on the old haunted-house formula, Paramount Studios lifted a number of release strategies from this new world, including exploiting social networks — (TweetYourScream) on Twitter — to stoke and sustain audience interest. At the same time Paramount was also borrowing a page from the exploitation cinema handbook. In the 1950s and ’60s the director and producer William Castle (“The Tingler”) competed with Big Hollywood by actively engaging his audience with various gimmicks, like placing buzzers under seats to zap moviegoers mid-screening or advertising that nurses would be standing by in case anyone fainted.

Castle’s genius was to make audience members feel as if, with their giggles and screams, they were active participants in the movie and its meaning. That ability to make moviegoers see themselves as a part of the action was a crucial element to how Harvey and Bob Weinstein turned Miramax Films into a dominant force not only in independent cinema but also in Big Hollywood.

It helped that two of their most popular and early stars, the directors Kevin Smith (“Clerks”) and Quentin Tarantino (“Pulp Fiction”), were natural showmen who attracted intensely dedicated followings. Yet as time went on and Miramax increasingly devoted its resources to slick commercial productions (“Cold Mountain”) that were at times indistinguishable from mainstream fare, it was no longer reaching out to specific audiences but the mass.

READS MORE - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/movies/31dargis.html

Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company