The CMU Filmmaking Club

Meeting 12/5/08: Get yer butt to Film Club!

James — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:01:56 +0000

Hey, all y’all out there, there’s another meeting of the ol’ Film Club this Friday, December 5 at 5:30pm at the office. T-shirts have arrived, along with the green screen and green screen suit, so if you want to be cool, this is the place to be!

Update: Meeting notes: 12-5-08 Meeting Notes

Meeting Today! (11/21/08)

James — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:58:47 +0000

If you don’t know already, there is a weekly Film Club meeting today at 5:30pm at the usual spot, so be sure to attend! Don’t worry if you’ve missed a meeting or two, we won’t hold it against you (but 3, now that’s just unforgivable). We’ll probably be discussing lots of stuff, including the shoot for Ryan’s project tomorrow and … STUFF, of course.

Update: Here are the meeting notes, as usual: 11-21-08 Meeting Notes

Meeting Recap (11/14/05)

James — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:56:53 +0000

In case you missed it — and if you missed it you should be ashamed of yourself : ) — here’s all the happenings from out latest meeting!

11-14-08 Meeting Notes

DEADLINE FOR STUdentFilmFest entries is March 31st, 2009

rwoodrin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:15:33 +0000

- Entry Form available soon
- Entries must not exceed 30 minutes.
- All entries must be on cd or dvd as a playable quicktime file (if they are HD, please understand that they will be converted to SD).
- Send all entries to:

STUFF
Ryan Woodring
5032 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15289

Insomnia Film Fest

James — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:42:35 +0000

These are the teams for the Insomnia Film Fest. If you are in one of these teams and haven’t already, please go to http://insomnia.apple.com/home and register for the team you are on by the end of Wednesday, 11/12!. To register, you will have to create an AppleID if you don’t already have one, and then create a username for the IFF. From there, search for teams from Carnegie Mellon and select the appropriate team.

TERRY BOYD: (Team Name: ?)
Ryan
Paul
Corey
Jess

JAMES HUFF: (Team Name: CMU Filmmaking Club James)
Felix
Dustin
Mubariz
DKL
Elmo

DON SHEEHY: (Team Name: ?)
Bruce
Arjun
Freeson
Istvan

Short Film Symposium Friday Nov 14

Film Club — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:43:54 +0000

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

Meeting! (11/7/08)

James — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:31:43 +0000

Update: Meeting notes now available here: Meeting Notes 11-7-08

Attention Film Club: Meeting tomorrow! We’ll be getting together to edit (and hopefully post online) the Viral Video we filmed on Sunday night, so make sure you attend. There will also probably be discussion of the next video to be filmed, so bring ideas, suggestions, etc.

Also, if you haven’t already, make sure you check out our new forums!

CMU Film Club Board

freesonwang — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:25:54 +0000

The official CMU Film Club board is online, skinned, iconned, and ready to go.
Check it out…here.

[Edit: There is now a permanent link to the boards in the sidebar to the right, under “Film Club”]

Viral Videos

James — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:20:46 +0000

This week, Film Club held a meeting on Monday (10/27) night to discuss Freeson’s idea of creating a series of viral videos to promote the Student Film Festival and the club in general. Our fearless president was absent from the meeting, but somehow the other members soldiered on. The merits of various proposals were discussed and members gave their input on what the overall direction of this project should be. The general theme of the project, suggested by Freeson, is that of “several students hacking the campus network and posting all the embarrassing videos that they find.” Towards the end of the meeting, some specific ideas for the videos themselves were proposed, but no official consensus was reached on what to produce video of the series. As of now, there are still plans to meet on Thursday to produce one of the aforementioned videos.

In other news, our website is currently undergoing a revitalization! New content should be coming online more often than in the past, so check back on a regular (or irregular) basis to see new goodies and to keep abreast of all things Film Club. In fact, there will apparently soon be a new bulletin board system added to the site…

Meeting notes: Meeting Notes 10/27/08

Films for Filmmakers series

Film Club — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:50:06 +0000

Last night, we launched our new Films for Filmmakers series. The film was The Five Obstructions by Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth. We turned the film club into a microcinema for the evening to watch Danish director Lars von Trier
attempt to psychoanalyze his hero, filmmaker Jorgen Leth by challenging him to remake an experimental film from the 60’s five times. Each time, von Trier gave some set of obstructions to overcome. It’s a really inspiring movie, especially for young filmmakers who face obstructions from limited resources every time they start a new project. The film shows how creativity can flourish under constraint.

We will be continuing this series every other Monday at 8:00. The details of the next showing are as follows:

Krystof Kieslowski’s Camera Buff, 8:00pm Feb 18, at the Film Club

Come and bring a friend. All are welcome.