MUMBAI: CMP Media's Digital Video Group has announced a series of special activities for its event Digital Video Expo West 2003. Now in its seventh year, the event will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from 9-12 December.
An official release informs that the event focusses on providing information on cutting-edge tools, techniques, and technologies to the professional digital video community. Academy Award winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler will deliver the keynote address.
One special activity lined up is Digital Video in the Classroom: How to Increase Communication Skills with DV. This course demonstrates how to teach communication skills to students using their current studies and interests' and DV.
DV.com Community Connection: This lets digital video professionals mingle and network with their peers. It provides an opportunity for attendees to ask questions directly to the DV.com Forum moderators and the editors of DV Magazine. The forum tables are broken up by topics like audio, cameras, lighting.
Another special session will deal with Video Art in the Age of DV. Museums, galleries, and festivals throughout the world are embracing the exhibition of video as fine art. The adoption by artists of digital video tools is creating a creative vocabulary which merges imagery, typography, sound and setting into yet another way that producers can get their work funded, presented and distributed. A panel of artists and writers will discuss their experiences in the production, presentation and critiquing of this digital hybrid artform.
Film buffs could check out Producing Digital Hollywood. This a presentation by the Filmmaker's Central School of Cinema. The breakout session focusses on producing high concept and high quality, short or feature projects with a practical "street smarts" and "old Hollywood" approach to the visually creative DV movie making process. The class will demystify and define the professional world of producing motion picture digital entertainment.
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