April Showers website a treasure of information

I was looking at some of the films coming to our local film festival, the Nashville Film Festival, (which I won’t be attending much since they scheduled most of it the same week as NAB!) and I came across a film screening this Saturday called April Showers. It’s not a light little comedy but rather a drama about a Columbine-like school shooting. The synopsis from the film’s website:

From writer/director, Andrew Robinson, a survivor of the Columbine High School tragedy, comes April Showers a dramatized retelling of what it was like to be a survivor in the midst of the nation’s largest school shootings. Based largely on actual events, April Showers follows the story of Sean Ryan (Kelly Blatz, Prom Night) as he and fellow survivors attempt to make sense of the horrors they’ve just witnessed and, for Sean, coping with the loss of his friend April (Ellen Woglom, Viva Laughlin).

Besides looking like an important film with very topical subject matter, one other thing that makes this movie worth a blog post are many of the resources available on the film’s official website.

New That Post Show up and online

There’s a brand new version of the audio podcast That Post Show up and online. If you haven’t heard the podcast then this would be a good time to start listening. It’s described as “an open conversation and roundtable discussion with experts in new media, film and moviemaking, about the process of film and creating media.” I was on episode three and they are all the way up to episode 6 now with Plug Ins and Post Production. Guests for this episode are, of course, host John Flowers, Kenn Bell of the Dog Files, Mark Christiansen of our very own Pro Video Coalition Production Values channel, and friend of the Edit Shane Ross. You probably know Shane from his blog Little Frog in Hi-Def but you also know him from the thousands of Internet forums he frequents about editing and post-production. The show is also sponsored by Red Giant Software and as a part of their show sponsorship you can get 40% off Colorista and Warp from now until March 2. Check out That Post Show’s website for the code. That’s a great deal on a must have piece of software if you want to do any kind of color correction in Final Cut Pro. The Edit did a review a while back and it is highly recommended. So tune your podcasting application (here’s an iTunes direct link) and give That Post Show a listen. You might learn something.

The GT35Pro up in the great cold north

For Christmas 2008 my wife and I packed up the car and drove north to see her family. We ended up with Uncle John in Warkworth, Ontario, spending time on a gorgeous farm in the country. It was the perfect place to keep kicking the tires (see the first post about the GT35pro here and the first footage here) on my Canon HV20 with Greg Tay’s GT35pro adapter. Perfect in the sense that this type of shooting is one of the main reasons I like an affordable 35mm lens adapter for this little consumer camera. When I’m kicking around with the family, on a holiday at the beach or just shooting some random images in the neighborhood the option of getting fantastically shallow depth of field and the unique look of the image projected onto an adapter’s ground glass is very appealing. I don’t want lug thousands of dollars worth of high-end adapter, swing-away matte box, carbon-fiber rail system in their own dedicated pelican case around the country just for my own pleasure. It’s nice to have something that can fit in a travel bag or camera case and still yield results that are look good and are especially impressive to the family. You can easily get that out of most all of the lower cost 35mm lens adapters on the market.

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