Roughcut 3: the return
Saturday 11 November saw the 3rd ever Roughcut filmmaking seminar at the Seymour Centre in Sydney and it was the best ever. Loads of people, loads of the latest Sony cameras on show and loads of information about making short films.
Both Sony and Videocraft have opened exclusive offers for Roughcut attendees (Sony) and Tropfest filmmakers (Videocraft – 10% of hire packages – www.videocraft.com.au). So if you are making a film, well worth finding out what deals you can get from Sony and Videocraft.
MC’ed by previous Tropfest winner of Best Comedy and now creator/director/writer/actor in Double the Fist on the ABC, Craig Anderson, the event kicked off with a message from John Polson who, due to filming commitments in NY, could not make it this year – maybe next year John.
Then we got into it with speeches from Sony on HD techology, eminent cinematographer Piet de Vries and last years winners, Rob Carlton and Alex Weinress who spoke about their journey since winning Sony Tropfest 2006. Piet is the DOP master and has so much knowledge to pass on to eager students and Rob/Alex had some particularly good news regarding their TV project that they could share with the audience.
After a superb spread for lunch and a chance to get more hands-on with the cameras on demo, we heard from editing guru John Colette, sound master James Nowiczewski and the man that needs no introduction, Billy Marshall Stoneking.
All of the sessions were packed full of information and I’m pleased to say that if you missed it, Sony is streaming and videopodcasting the sessions on www.sony.com.au/tropfest – the content will probably be live by the end of the week.
If you had a ticket to come and chose not to – and I know there was a few of you – you really missed out and unfortunately deprived others of tickets. The event was in fact over subscribed by over 50%.
I promised some behinds the senes shots and so here they are. Unfortunately I was busy running around alot but managed to get a few shots on my K750i phone camera:
The Crowds
John Colette and Phil Lamont
Alex and Rob head to the stage Spinal Tap style
Billy leaves the stage after his inspiring 40mins on script development interspersed with kangaroo calling
Piet on stage delivering insight into cinematography.
16 November 2006 at 1:05pm
Nice one, Rubes, I will definitely check out the website. I was a “surfboat rower’s wife’ up at Whale Beach Saturday – kind of like a footballer’s wife but without the fake tits.