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Activities Fair, and Next Meeting

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Meet at the club Wed at 3:30 to help move equipment to the gym for the Activities Fair, which begins at 4:30 and goes till 6:30.
Next meeting is Friday in PH at 4:30, regular meetings resume next week, 5pm, at the club (1 Margaret Morrison Plaza).

Rooftop Films -Submit!

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

http://rooftopfilms.com/submit.html
Check out this film festival that is pretty cheap to submit to.

Great article on James Cameron

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear

Here’s a link to a great article the New Yorker did on James Cameron, and talks a bit about his new movie, Avatar. Its a bit long, but anyone should read the first few pages for some insight on how James Cameron is James Cameron.

Meeting Tonight

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

meeting is tonight, 9pm, in Tepper 388. Take the elevator at the Maggie Mo and Tech Street entrance to the third floor. Walk out and make a u-turn to reach the room.

Dolly System Construction

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

At the meeting we talked about making our own dolly system, and save over $800 doing so. Below are links to some sites I found about making our own. Most likely we’ll construct a PVC pipe one for now.

http://www.cartala.com/dollytrack.php

http://www.cartala.com/pvcdolly.php

http://www.rondexter.com/professional/equipment/skate_wheel_dollies.htm

Pitch Day Results

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Quick Summary of the results of Pitch Day:
The chosen project of filmclub will be Istvan’s Sitcom pitch, Plan/Scam.
Three runners up which we will also give some support to are:
Benji’s “Toothfairy”
Felix’s “Morning After” short
and Stefan’s “Stan’s Algorithm” once he finishes the script for that again.

Great pitches everyone! I hope to see all of them made at some point.

5pm Meeting

Friday, September 11th, 2009
Film club meeting 5pm today (Friday). Make every effort to show, as we’ll be creating the groups for improv shootings for the weekend (as well as what time).  
Reminder that Pitch day is September 25th. So if you got a project idea kicking around, stop kicking it and write it up! 
In other news, the proboards site will from now on be updated with meeting minutes by every Monday night following a regular meeting. You can get to the proboards site via our main page, cmufilmmakingclub.com. Just select “Boards” at the top to be redirected. There you can view old news and new news, and you can feel free to post a script there for anyone to read and comment (create a login name first though, so you don’t appear as “guest”).
See you at the club!
-DKL

Short Film Symposium Friday Nov 14

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

As part of the Three Rivers Film Festival, there will be a Short Film Symposium.  It looks like a good lineup of speakers.  Admission is only $10 for students.

For more info, check out the flyer: Short Film Symposium Flyer

Register by phone 412-681-5449, in person at 477 Melwood Ave (9a-5p), or at www.3rff.com