FREE TIFF screening, all invited

Event: Screening and Lecture – Wong Kar Wai's "Chungking Express"
Venue: TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 4
Time of event: Nov 26th, 9:30am-12:30pm

This is the last of the TIFF screenings for Centennial this term. I would be great to have a full house in order to protect this time and space for the next terms .

The screening will start with a short presentation providing the context for the film:

• Cassavettes
• Godard
• neon colours
• pop music
• Hong Kong changing hands
• young love
• gangster movies
• student films

Color Correction Suite Opens

We're pleased to announce that our Color Correction Suite (Room 177) is now open for business. Current students in 4th and 5th semester have received basic training and are encouraged to take advantage of working in a professional style Color Grading Room. The 8-core MacPro Tower has been fitted with an AJA HD card and breakout box along with dual wide screen RGB monitors and a Sony HD Video monitor. We're using a Tangent Wave control surface to interface with Apple Color. The workflow is a bit tricky so users must receive training in order to know the basic steps of using Color. To support the system we have installed a subscription to Lynda.com, so that students can take on-line tutorials for Color and any other applications.

Jobs

All the panellists at the Asian Film Fest's Next Wave of Careers panel agreed that the best advice for young people in the industry is to be multi-faceted. McLean Greaves from Zoomer Media encourages the idea of being able to write, shoot, edit and work in multi-platform. Our own Phil Kruger emphasized content is king. Producer Joan Schafer pointed out the CMF experimental fund and how everyone is trying to figure it out. I commented on the trend of Social Justive Volunteerism programming and how that's growing.

B+F - Well into (almost out of) Fall Semester

Greetings Folks,
Now in Week 9, assignments coming and going at a frantic pace and the constant demand for us to "manage our time". If it's any consolation, it's all true for your faculty as well. The good news at the other end of the rainbow is, five graduates were hired to a limited contract the other day with Deluxe Entertainment Services - fancy that, a paid job in the industry that you studied for!
There's more of that around, but so much is timing and networking - along with your skills and atittude, of course.
We have a sweet deal coming up next fall with Adobe, where it looks like we'll be able to offer the Adobe "Master Suite" (15 software programs!) for the ridiculous (one good night at the bar) price of $150. That's less than a legit copy of Photoshop!
Your faculty is also embarking on a capital budget plan for next year to figure out what kind of new and improved equipment you'll need to make your best stories and deliver the impressive product that you (and your prospective employers) expect.
I'm probably jumping the gun here, but end of semester is only six weeks away and Christmas not far behind. If I don't chime in before, I hope everyone has a wonderful, well-deserved break, and that we all come back raring and able to deliver on the Murphy Challenge.
More details about that later.
Ciao for now.

Reel Asian

Next Week is Reel Asian Film Festival in Toronto. Students from B&F will be filming all the Industry Panels. Centennial College Faculty members Chris Terry, Paul Koidis and Phillip Krueger will be the panelists fort the Industry Panel on the Next Wave of Careers.

http://www.reelasian.com/