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October 2009 Meeting
Important!: This month, October's meeting, will be held on Thursday October 22, not the 3rd Monday of the month as usual. This is to avoid conflict with Re:Frame and allow our full membership to attend.

Cost: Free to members. Non members $25.

Location: The Santa Clara Fire Dept. Training Center, 1900 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA


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Greetings, BAPVA members guests, and celebrities!

This month's meeting is going to focus on skills improvement in shooting and editing. Specifically, how to use image style to create emotion and tell a more engaging story. Having a compelling, emotional story is one of the most powerful techniques in producing quality video, and image style is as significant contributor to the emotional energy of your piece.

We are honored to have Josh Smith of Cinematicbride, who lives in Louisiana, with us, as our presenter/instructor for the evening. Josh is a very highly regarded event videographer who was voted Top 25 in both 2007 and 2008 by EventDV Magazine. He has been featured on Lifetime, Good Morning America, and Inside Edition. Josh's reputation and brand is highly regarded and we are fortunate to have him. He also teaches workshops as part of his business.

This session will be demonstration, not lecture. Josh is going to simulate an actual shooting session and show us how to direct, use different camera looks, choose camera angles, composition, motion and lighting to communicate specific emotions. He will then import the footage into his NLE and demonstrate his post production workflow, use of rhythm, pacing, effects, and music He is highly regarded for his colorization skills and has a lot to show and tell on this subject.

His "hands-on" teaching style should make this a great session.

As always, we will also have time to network and socialize within our group. So please join us for an enjoyable and informative evening.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

First Program: Joshua Smith - CinematicBride: Using Image Style to Create Mood and Tell a Compelling Story

Josh is a highly recognized, award winning event videographer based in Louisiana.

Please see a listing of his awards and recognition above.

The subject of his talk is on how to use image style to create mood and emotion in event videography. Josh will spend the entire evening with us.

A more detailed agenda is as follows:

Creating mood and capturing emotion when shooting
directing
use of different camera looks
camera angles
composition
motion
lighting
Creating mood and capturing emotion during editing
colorization (Josh's trademark skill)
music selection (he has very specific thoughts here!)
rhythm
pacing
workflow
Sources of his inspiration
his suggested films, books, web sites that you can use for inspiration
His session will be totally hands-on demonstration, not lecture.

The objective, is that you will leave the meeting with specific techniques you can use both in production and post production to improve the quality of your product.

We look forward to seeing you all there!
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