October, 2008 General Meeting

Location: Digital Media Center
1300 S. Bristol St.
Santa Ana, CA 92704

Time: Food & Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Meeting 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Fee: Non-members $15, students with valid ID's $7. OCMMA yearly memberships are $125. How to Apply for OCMMA Membership. Food will be served.
Program: Scarlet Camera and Member Showcase: Dance Recital Video

Scarlet Camera: Magic & Mystery

Special Guest Presenter Jon Sagud
RED Digital Cinema, Representative

NAB's bombshell was Scarlet, a 3K Digital Cinema camera! It is the camera that everybody will want and will change the industry. The details on Scarlet's systems are forthcoming, as features are evolving based on input at NAB and customer requests.

Days ago it was announced there will be a significant change in the Scarlet design. Although there is much secrecy around the features and release date of the  Scarlet, we are fortunate to have Jon Sagud from RED Cinema to fill us in on what can be divulged at this time.

Someone commented that the showing at NAB next year should be really great. Jim Jannard of RED responded, "You have no idea." Sounds like I don't want to miss it.

Premiere Showing: "The Magnificent Seven" was a big hit.

Suggestions were incorporated into the final project before presenting to the client. Thanks to all who participated!

Member Showcase: Dance Recital Video

Presented by Mike McGready

This was a first for Mike in that he was hired by a dance studio but the dancers were his actual clients. Mike created order forms and a dispersal log to manage the ordering and distribution processes. There were several challenging aspects of this shoot. Capturing 6 hours of performances using 3 cameras on a 1-camera budget was the most ambitious. Another of the challenges was performing dancer interviews on-the-fly with varying audio, lighting and background situations. Mike will share what worked well and what he would do differently next time.

The heart of what Mike will show is the highlights he captured during rehearsals to entertain between interview segments. Extracting diverse dance sequences and synchronizing them to a totally different piece of music is a choreographic chore that Mike loves to do and he is very proud of the results. Mike also enjoys the design process. DVD menu screens, disc labels and jacket covers receive loving attention from Mike. The mundane but crucial tasks of reproducing, printing disc labels and jacket covers and assembling the seventy-five 3-disc sets he left to our friends at Home Run Software Services, Inc. who met Mike's critical deadline with time to spare.