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Student Tutorials on Itunes®

Tony has been creating hours of tutorials for beginning film students to learn basics for production prep and cinematography. These are free and available on itunes. The topics range from using a cloud for prep, to taking advantage of many free resources to help film makers get better results. Search Pfau and Film to get to their podcast feed. Subscribe today! Coming soon will be tips and tricks for using EP's MovieMagic Scheduling and Budgeting. The podcasts can also be viewed via a web browser for you to watch on your desktop.

Be sure to check out the latest update comparing Red 2k un-graded footage vs the Baselight® color correction / grading done by colorist Eric Anolin at Crosspoint.com for my students.

Grapevine

Here's some updates about former students of mine that are out and about making their way through the maze of movieland. I expect I'll be seen many names on the big screen soon!

Tori Olsen, is now working in LA as a rental technician.

David Higgens completed Production on his first indie "Aviation Cocktail"

Brian Udovich is onto his 5th picture.

Delby Bruin is in LA producing low budget horror films.

Peter Wigand , cinematography major, just completed shooting on his first feature film "Dust of War"

Trevor Beeler has been working in the industry

Sino Chum working at Starz Encore as a

Jarrod Austin working as a Prdoucer at

Rene Varga living in LA and workign in the industry

Alan Hamilton become the key equipment manager at Lighting Services and now working at motion picture lab.

James Harshman is now rental manager at a large equipment house LIghting Services inc.

Tamara Decker- now works with SAG.

Others doing quite well, April Frame, Mat Wafai, Cass Letson, Zach Armstrong, Steve McKissen Josh Wienberg, Joey Wartenchaney and many others.
If you're one of my former students and not mentioned, drop me an email and let me know what you're up to. I'm happy to tout the success of my former students!

Crosspoint's 30ish Film Competition.

Tony is proud to announce that he will be one of the judges on the exciting film festival and competition held at Crosspoint on July 21st. Entry deadline is soon! Don't miss this one. You can find out more about it here.

The Trouble With Jill

My Intro To Film Class, Fall 2011 just wrapped a funny take off on the Jack & Jill Story. Directed by Seth Hollomon, the piece is a hilarious look at an old fairy tale, where Jack faces some more modern day problems. Check back to see the rough cut here!

Despite the madness, all of the students in this class earned their stripes and yet another batch of film makers are released into the remaining curiculum certainly changed men and women! The thing to remember is that these students come into my class never having seen a film camera or worked on a film shoot. I'm proud of all of the students that make it through "boot camp" and, although they make mistakes, they have a much stronger foundation from which to further their development! Bravo!

earlier cut

First Flight

Intro To Film Fall 2010- students complete filming of their class project "First Flight" 16mm Film. I am very proud of all of the students who worked extremely hard to pull off their first real film project. See some of my previous classes' projects at http://youtube.com/cfsstudents I am quite proud of all of their achievements!