FilmFellas - webisode 10 from Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA on Vimeo.
Webisode 10 brings you a brand new cast of FilmFellas. Each fella has a different approach to online media, but they do agree on one thing, media is changing and it’s changing fast. Steve opens with the classic and sometimes risky exercise of “say what you think of first”. Each cast member is hit with a variety of terms from web video to social networking and the responses may shock you. Conversation quickly turns to the idea of how physical media is shifting to online media.
Edward Seaton explains, “It depends on how quickly technology can catch up with the idea of online distribution and watching things in a different format.”
Taking that a step further, the cast discusses how advances in home entertainment have also affected the idea of physical media. Technology, again, needs to find a flawless way however, to connect this online content with the home theater equipment. The immediacy of online content creates a roadblock that other lines of media have yet to overcome. Check out the conversation and see what it sparks for you.
As some of you may already know, the East Tennessee Television & Film Commission (ETTFC) was not included in Knox County’s proposed budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Since the ETTFC is solely funded by Knox County, this would mean that the ETTFC would have to effectively close its doors. Currently the proposed budget has gone before Knox County Commission to be approved. While it’s there, the Commission will have the opportunity to make changes.
We ask that anyone who is interested in seeing the ETTFC continue to please contact your County Commissioner and ask them to reinstate funding for the ETTFC in the upcoming budget. If funding for the ETTFC is not reinstated, Knoxville runs the risk of losing its central contact point for the Television & Film Industry.
Please find a list of County Commissioners posted below.
Thank you for your support.
Thomas Duncan
Project Coordinator
ETTFC
Phone: (865) 246-2629
Knox County Commissioners
General Mailbox: commission@knoxcounty.org
Amy Broyles: Amy.Broyles@knoxcounty.org
Brad Anders: Brad.Anders@knoxcounty.org
Bud Armstrong: Bud.Armstrong@knoxcounty.org
Craig Leuthold: Craig.Leuthold@knoxcounty.org
Dave Wright; Dave.Wright@knoxcounty.org
Ed Shouse: Ed.Shouse@knoxcounty.org
Finbarr Saunders: Finbarr.Saunders@knoxcounty.org
Greg Lambert: Greg.Lambert@knoxcounty.org
Ivan Harmon: Ivan.Harmon@knoxcounty.org
Mark Harmon: Mark.Harmon@knoxcounty.org
Michael (Mike) Brown: mike.brown@knoxcounty.org
Mike Hammond: Mike.Hammond@knoxcounty.org
Paul Pinkston: Paul.Pinkston@knoxcounty.org
R. Larry Smith: larry.smith@knoxcounty.org
Richard Briggs: Richard.Briggs@knoxcounty.org
Sam McKenzie: sam.mckenzie@knoxcounty.org
Thomas Strickland: thomas.strickland@knoxcounty.org
Tony Norman: Tony.Norman@knoxcounty.org
Michele Carringer: Michele.Carringer@knoxcounty.org
The Local Chapter of the ASSOCIATION FOR THE FUTURE OF FILM AND TELEVISION IN TENNESSEE will be holding a meeting this Wednesday, May 20th at Rivr Media, 342 Troy Circle, Knoxville 37919. Check out their web site at www.rivr.com.
Meeting agenda will be:
6 PM to 6:30 PM Meet and greet and a chance to tour the facilities
6:30 to 7 PM Jerome Jarnigan from Rivr will discuss what Rivr has to offer, the projects they are involved in and answer any questions from the group.
7 PM to 7:30 PM Our guest speaker, Dave Porfiri, Mindflow Media in Chattanooga, will be talking about what he and the Chattanooga Chapter of AFFT are doing to increase production opportunities in their community.
If you are interested in increasing work opportunities in our area, come and find out what you as an individual and we as a group can do for our future in this industry.
If you have friends that are not members, encourage them to come with you on Weds. night and join. The yearly membership fee is $25.00. We all need to support the state wide effort of AFFT to affect the legislation that will benefit the film, television and video production industries and those of us associated with it.
From Wikipedia:
Lifted is a 2006 Pixar computer animated short film directed by Gary Rydstrom. This is the first film directed by Rydstrom, a seven-time Academy Award winning sound editor and mixer.
The film was released theatrically with Pixar's Ratatouille (June 29, 2007). The short also received a sneak peek at The 42nd Chicago International Film Festival.
Plot
A young alien, Stu, is inside a spaceship taking an examination in abduction. He must snatch a sleeping farmer named Ernie under the watchful eye of his imposing instructor, Mr. B.[2] To accomplish this, Stu must, from memory, utilize the array of thousands of unlabeled toggle switches on the giant console before him. Using the correct switches, Stu must manipulate the tractor beam, lifting the human from his bed, out the window, and into the ship. With a few hesitant flicks of the wrong switch, and eventually a frustrated swipe at the array, he mistakenly propels the human into walls and occasionally the ceiling, but never waking the farmer from his slumber. After repeated failures to successfully lift the human into the ship, Mr. B takes over and, wielding the massive bank of switches with ease, returns the farmer to his bed and cleans up the mess inside the farmhouse.
Ashamed over his failure, Stu starts whimpering, trying to hold back his tears. In a rare moment of compassion, Mr. B generously offers Stu the opportunity to launch the space ship back home. Full of glee, Stu takes hold of the steering apparatus and starts to lift the ship into the air, but the flying saucer plummets to the ground, crushing the farmer's house. When the spaceship finally departs, its underside covered in debris, all that remains is a crater with a tall pillar of dirt in the center, left by the tractor beam's cargo entry, atop which the farmer is still sleeping soundly in his bed.
During the end credits there is the sound of an alarm clock, the farmer waking up, yawning, a loud scream which echoes (meaning he fell in), then a thud.
