INTRO TO FINAL CUT PRO FOR LAPTOPS

LEARN THE CORE BASICS OF FINAL CUT PRO USING YOUR OWN LAPTOP, SOFTWARE + FOOTAGE

In this 2-day workshop students will learn capturing, basic editing, titling and effects, as well as outputting options for tape and DVD. Featuring a mix of seminar, hands-on training and practice time, this workshop will give students plenty of opportunity to take notes and hone their new skills. Great for the first time user or the self taught FCP editor looking to improve their techniques.

This class is especially for filmmakers who use laptops. Participants will meet at Cineworks with their FCP-equipped laptops and all work will be carried out on your own computer, editing your own footage.

Optional recommended additional materials if you would like to edit your own footage:
• Your own footage to capture from and edit with
• A firewire camera or deck to capture your footage
• A firewire or USB external hard drive to store your captured footage (you will only be able to store a limited amount of footage on your laptop’s internal hard drive)

INTRO TO FINAL CUT PRO FOR LAPTOPS

08 + 09 November 2008, 11am-5pm
Cineworks [1131 Howe Street, back lane entrance]
Cost is $175 for members/$235 for non-members

Registration: Please call 604.685.3841 or send an electronic message to Leanne.

Registration Deadline: 05 November 2008

Instructor: Jason De Groote is a freelance editor, motion graphics artist, producer and director. He is a graduate of the Communication Studies Film program at Concordia University in Montreal and has plied his crafts on all types of projects from corporate videos and documentaries to independent films, television projects and commercials. Jason’s films have screened at festivals around the globe and he has won several awards, including top prizes for commercials he wrote, directed and edited for contests for Z95.3 radio, Shaftebury Beer and The CBC series Intelligence, all of which were edited on his laptop.

School, work, school. Alex Bag, Kika Thorne, Elisabeth Subrin. Cineworks presents After School Special, three videos from the late nineties as an attempt to flesh out the gap between the WACK! show at the Vancouver Art Gallery and contemporary feminist art practice.

With music by Peaches, Kika Thorne's Work stars real life artist Shary Boyle who plays an artist in a documentary that is not a documentary.

In Untitled Fall '95, Bag, the art student, "plays" Bag the art student. Through a series of deadpan performances, interspersed with fragments of pop detritus, Bjork, Hello Kitty, Killer Bunnies, Alex Bag successfully maintains television's banal, static and endearing ineptitudes.

A cinematic doppelganger without precedent, shot for shot, Elisabeth Subrin's Shulie reenacts a 1967 documentary portrait of a young Chicago art student, who a few years later would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism and author of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Not a clone in the end, but a brilliant rethinking of history. Subrin makes manifest the eternal return of film.

Join us post punk feminists at 7:30 on November 18 at the Pacific Cinemateque to view the distant past through the lens of the recent past.

Part of VAG WACK!

After School Special
Elisabeth Subrin//Shulie
Kika Thorne//Work
Alex Bag//Untitled Fall '95
18 November 2008, 7:30pm
Pacific Cinematheque [1131 Howe]
$8 Cineworks Members, $10 Non-members

This two-day workshop will demonstrate typical project workflows on the latest version of Avid, from digitizing BetaSP dailies (for a 24 fps film project), capturing DVCAM footage (for a 29.97 fps video project) and ingesting tapeless HD footage, to creating personalized settings, organizing bins, media management, video resolutions, effects, rough cuts, trimming, adding titles, colour correction, importing, outputting work tape and EDLs and consolidating a project. Students will become familiar with the industry standard Avid interface, and will understand how the Avid processes digital media. The workshop concludes with some basic hands-on exercises.

Basic knowledge of the Mac or Windows platform or previous digital editing experience is recommended.

Instructor: Jean-Denis Rouette
Jean-Denis is a Vancouver-based editor and producer for the Knowledge Network. He also serves as Cineworks’s digital media coordinator.

Two Days: November 22-23, 2008
Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Cineworks, 1131 Howe Street, back lane entrance
Cost: $155 Cineworks members; $225 non-members

Pre-registration is required. To register, contact Leanne at: info(at)cineworks.ca

Registration Deadline: November 19, 2008

Art often becomes a creative conduit for raising awareness about important social and political issues. Once again for World AIDS day a number of local arts and social service organizations have come together to present a variety of art events that highlight the ongoing need for awareness, action and education around the subject of AIDS.

On December 1st, 1989, the same year the UN announced the first World AIDS day, Visual AIDS organized a “day without art” as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. Reflecting on the tremendous role that art can play in exploring and drawing attention to AIDS issues, AIDS Vancouver, The Centre, Cineworks, The Dance Centre, Pacific Cinematheque, Out on Screen/Queer Film Festival, Vancouver New Music and VIVO Media Arts partner to present four days of film screenings, performances, artworks, installation and a panel discussion that all explore various aspects of promoting AIDS awareness through artistic creation.

A special thanks to our media sponsor Xtra West. See them here.

Cineworks, Out on Screen and Pacific Cinematheque present
Derek Jarman’s BLUE and Wrik Mead’s Deviate
Saturday 29 November 2008, 3pm
Pacific Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street)
Free

In his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical.

Deviate is a short Super 8 film in which friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, discuss their memories of him. During this discussion old footage of Dan expressing himself is projected into still life.

Curated by cheyanne turions.

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The Centre, Cineworks, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver New Music and VIVO present
Diamanda Galás, Attila Richard Lukacs, Paul Wong and others in conversation
Sunday 30 November, 3pm
Pacific Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street), reception to follow
Free

Art often becomes a creative conduit for raising awareness about important social and political issues. In a free panel discussion musician Diamanda Galás, painter Atilla Richard Lukacs and media artist Paul Wong will reflect on the tremendous role that art can play in exploring and drawing attention to AIDS. The conversation will focus on creative responses to the AIDS epidemic, exploring the potential of affecting change through focused, subtle and/or optimistic cultural interventions. Following the discussion, audience members are invited to stay for a reception and free screening of Annette Mangaard’s documentary General Idea: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle.

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Cineworks and Pacific Cinematheque present
Annette Mangaard’s documentary General Idea: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle (2008, 48 minutes)
Sunday 30 November 2008, 5pm
Pacific Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street)
Free

In 1969, on the heels of the summer of love, three young Canadian artists came together to form a collective called General Idea. When the 1980s brought the first labeled cases of AIDS, General Idea responded by making art that addressed the plague virus. In an unforgettable coup, they appropriated the well-known “LOVE” painting by Robert Indiana and replaced those four letters with AIDS, for the now world-famous logo. General Idea toured Europe and North America with massive political installation pieces that chronicle the devastating spread of the disease and its impact on their community. AA Bronson, the sole survivor of General Idea, narrates General Idea: Art, AIDS, and the fin de siècle lending personal relevancy to a poignant story of art and sexual politics. It is a tale of love, fame, overwhelming loss and, ultimately, of renewal.

Curated by cheyanne turions.