the really useful media company » editing http://usefulmedia.net Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:06:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Teaching and post- for the Virtual Video Project http://usefulmedia.net/2008/08/26/teaching-and-post-for-the-virtual-video-project/ http://usefulmedia.net/2008/08/26/teaching-and-post-for-the-virtual-video-project/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:43:34 +0000 dan http://usefulmedia.net/2008/08/26/teaching-and-post-for-the-virtual-video-project/ In May, the really useful media company’s Dan Winckler joined Global Kids’ Virtual Video Project, an after-school program, to replace a departing instructor. In the VVP, the GK Leaders (all high school and college age students) choose an issue of global significance to research and create a film to promote awareness of it. This year the students wrote their film about the effects of racism on youth access to education. And did we mention it was entirely shot as machinima in Second Life? In addition to guiding the students through final scripting, shooting, and editing with co-teacher Tabitha Tsai, Dan assembled the students’ iMovie edits in Final Cut Pro, adding niceties like audio cleanup/sweetening, lipsync tightening, background sounds, color correction, and some custom graphics of the students’ happy faces for the end credits. You can watch their film Race to Equality below and read more about the process on the Global Kids blog.

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Bastianello by John Musto and Mark Campbell
Lucrezia by William Bolcom and Mark Campbell

presented by New York Festival of Song

recorded at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, March 15, 2008

Cast:

tenor Paul Appleby
bass Matt Boehler
mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke
baritone Patrick Mason
soprano Lisa Vroman

pianists Michael Barrett and Steven Blier
director Leon Major
stage manager Kate Scott

Commission, first performances, recording and audio broadcast of Bastianello by John Musto and Mark Campbell and Lucrezia by William Bolcom and Mark Campbell by New York Festival of Song, Inc. was supported by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Additional funding for first performance of Bastianello/Lucrezia is provided by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fazioli pianos supplied by Klavierhaus

Videography and post-production by the really useful media company

Audio recording and post-production by Adam Abeshouse

New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier, Artistic Director
Michael Barrett, Associate Artistic Director
Elizabeth Hurwitt, Executive Director
Charles McKay, Managing Director

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
Chief Executive/General Director
Paul Rosenblum, Managing Director

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