Schools with Red Reservations

Yeah, I've been singing praises for the camera's potential for a while now. They claim to be a fairly progressive school but the head of cinematography is allergic to digital. They actually turned down several free Varicams that Panasonic was going to give us.

With a Spirit 4K and Arriscan just installed [and a 4K infrastructure in place], I recently formally recommended that they pick up a few reservations. They scoffed and bought another BL-4 instead. I'm not complaining [hey, another BL-4! We're spoiled!], but at the same time...
 
education and training purposes

education and training purposes

One of my RED ONE units will be there -- if not both following the possible (actual and/or future) financing sources.
 
I'm not sure if you're asking something about my post, if it was the case I don't know what your business or job career is but I can add some light on the subject:

It's not easy to get the interest of a film school with more than 30 years of practice like that one (general links: LINK2 LINK3) I knew as filmmaking student (directing and editing) but it's not difficult to capture their adhesion when "they" are a new university, college or other edu institution with a school of new media or applied technologies like those (LINK4 LINK5 LINK6 LINK7) where I began my career as lecturer or professor (beyond the movie business). Besides the other institutions possibly interested or just even attentive in this 4K motion picture capture device but... as you probably well know, mere business secret 'cause the secret is the business' «soul».

(EDIT -- Link fixed; sorry guys but these links might be all available in english)
 
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I've encouraged the Park School @ Ithaca College to invest in some REDness. The dean was interested, but I still don't know if they'll go for it. Here's to hoping...
 
Brook Willard said:
Yeah, I've been singing praises for the camera's potential for a while now. They claim to be a fairly progressive school but the head of cinematography is allergic to digital. They actually turned down several free Varicams that Panasonic was going to give us.

With a Spirit 4K and Arriscan just installed [and a 4K infrastructure in place], I recently formally recommended that they pick up a few reservations. They scoffed and bought another BL-4 instead. I'm not complaining [hey, another BL-4! We're spoiled!], but at the same time...
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Sweet. I go to Biola University, about 20min from you guys.

.....yeah we're quite jealous of your equipment and facilities. Do you really have a mocap studio?
 
Yeah, we do. They just recently finished wiring it all... it's not really in use yet. One of the professors here worked wonders for the 3D/VFX side of the school.
 
MoCap but no RED ???

MoCap but no RED ???

Too bad UFVA was at Chapman this past year. I'd like to take RED to North Texas U next summer and see what kind of reponse it gets. Chapman has an awesome new facility, but if they drag their feet on 4K cameras, they may lose some really talented students who want to "capture" the RED sunrise.

I remember when DV/FireWire first showed at BEA and the younger faculty were all over it, but the older faculty did not want to rock their boat and have to teach newer technologies. I can't speak for "old" Chapman faculty as it's the only college with a MoCap Studio that I know of and UFVA is an odd combination of the really talented and the really tenured...

Rosco

P.S. I have heard that Chapman's Avid editing systems are giving them fits.
 
Don't even get me started on the Avids. The entire bloody film school is based on Dells and Avid Xpress. They have a few higher-end Avid systems but the whole thing is buggy beyond belief. The decision makers got the school locked into a Dell/Avid contract years ago and it's been nothing but trouble from a student perspective.

An informal poll by students at the school put almost 70% of the film students as Mac users and over 50% as Final Cut Pro editors. In my years here, I've never cut a single project on a school computer.

These are the rants of a spoiled film student kid with stunning technology and equipment at his fingertips via the school - don't take them too seriously. The school could be perfect and we'd still find things we didn't like. Unfortunately, the fact remains... if you ask a student or [almost any] faculty member about the state of the equipment in the studios, they'll silently shake their head.

Alas, I'm not sure how this got turned into a rant-about-Chapman thread.
 
Brook Willard said:
Alas, I'm not sure how this got turned into a rant-about-Chapman thread.
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I could rant about Biola's film department deficiencies if you want. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
Well, my school (Sydney Film School) doesn't know I've ordered the camera yet, but I will rent out Red #378 to the students at favourable rates to hopefully help drag them kicking and screaming into the digital age :D

There's still a bent towards film there (ah, the Steenbeck!) but with Red I imagine there will be a lot of converts once they see what the camera is capable of, even with the school's 16mm lenses....
 
Brook Willard said:
Yeah, I've been singing praises for the camera's potential for a while now. They claim to be a fairly progressive school but the head of cinematography is allergic to digital. They actually turned down several free Varicams that Panasonic was going to give us.
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Allergic to digital? Don't think so...

Chapman will be installing two full SCRATCH systems, as well as more than 100 student seats in their labs for a full DI curriculum...

http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/0906/cover_story.htm
and
http://www.studiodaily.com/distudio/searchlist/7007.html

A quote from the second link...

" And if anyone wonders where the next generation of DI artists might be learning their basic skills, look no farther than Chapman University, which has just spent $40 million on the new Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. The college, which includes sound stages, a Foley pit and a motion-capture studio, features an end-to-end 2K workflow. Professor/Dean Bob Bassett reports that new gear includes a Spirit 2K scanner and ASSIMILATE SCRATCH on each one of the school's 136 workstations (which also include Avid Xpress Pro).

"We are indeed planning to teach the DI and the color-correction process," says Bassett. "We plan on integrating Scratch into our cinematography program. We have set up two complete SCRATCH Stations to do the DI work. In addition, both of our computer labs have the software loaded so that we can provide hands-on instruction.""

Lucas Wilson
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Assimilate, Inc.
Los Angeles (back online after a week in Thailand...)
 
Seems great on paper, you're right.

[edit: sorry, I'm gonna wrap up my list of complaints. It's a great school with a lot of great equipment and great opportunities and I'm happy to have gone here.]
 
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Holy crap. I'm dying to learn DI with Scratch. Where is this and can someone who's already got a BS degree sign up?
 
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