Sign up for the BCM – GoPro 3D filmmaking contest

 

Be one of the 10 teams competing in the BCM - GoPro 3D filmmaking contest. Click on the image of the Hero to register

Boulder Community Media (BCM) and GoPro Cameras are presenting a 48-hour 3D filmmaking contest in conjunction with the Boulder International Film Festival Feb 16 – 19. Teams will be using the new 3D fixed-lens camera system and the Cinemark 3D editing software.

BCM seeks 10 teams who will be issued equipment and an editing software orientation prior to producing a 90-second movie. The best film will win a GoPro Hero camera and the top three will be looped on a 3D TV and viewable with RealD passive glasses at the Boulder Theater on Sunday February 19th.

If you’d like to participate, go to the BCM website and enter via:
http://www.bouldercomedia.org/

Editing is allowed, but think about projects with no dialogue – unless it is voice over of recorded separately. The on board microphones are covered up in a plastic housing.

The projects will be shot entirely in Downtown Boulder and teams will be issued a list of elements that must be included in the movie.

The camera system is very user friendly and has a fixed focus fish eye lens so there are lots of possibilities for interesting story telling.

BCM and GoProeEmployees, contractors and volunteers are eligible to take part in the contest, but ineligible to win the prize.

Crews with members younger than 18-years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

Teams must have a valid drivers license and credit card to check out the equipment, which must be returned when the movie is returned on the provided flash drive.

To find out a little more about the set up, check out:
www.gopro.com/3DSystem

Boulder International Film Festival production crew call Feb 16-19

BIFF producer Ron Bostwick interviewed Oscar nominee James Franco at the 2011 BIFF. Click on the image to join the Facebook page.

Boulder Community Media (BCM) is providing production services again. BCM is putting together volunteer production crews to cover a variety of events in the various Downtown Boulder screening venues and at local businesses hosting special events during the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) Feb 16 – 19.

If you’d like to be a part of the BIFF that is largely unseen and very interesting, inquire within! You do need to have particular expertise and experience with news.

The schedule won’t be released until later in January, but I’m getting the word out so you can make plans around classes, work, and other commitments. Check out the BIFF Production Call facebook page to keep up with the latest information.

BCM uses a “transmedia” approach where we produce news in a variety of forms:
* Editors – copy editors and video editors
* Writers – news gathers to go along to events
* Still Photographers – for all activities
* Video Photographers – for all activities
* Producers – if you want to produce, you should also have at least one other skill, have at a minimum a still camera and a strong back to schlepp gear.
* Social media – update facebook pages, tweet pix and experiences
* Website updates and maintenance

BCM generally runs at least two crews at any given moment, which means each crew has a producer, a video camera operator, a still camera operator a reporter on camera and a reporter off camera. In most cases, our news crews will be the only ones covering these events, many are newsworthy and your stories, images and video will be pushed out to the wire.

Equipment:
BCM will provide video cameras and tape for field work. BCM will have a MacBook Pro with Final Cut 7 available. We are inventorying assets and also let me know what kind of equipment you may be able to provide:

* video cameras etc. (they can be solid state and consumer grade, tripods, lights)
* still cameras (pocket cameras to DSLR cameras – do they have video capabilities)
* lap top computers (pc or mac and editing systems – Premiere, iMovie, FCP, movie maker)

Send an email to bvet22@yahoo.com if you’d like to be a part of the action. You can also join the BIFF Production Call facebook page to keep up with the latest.

Hitching Post Theater – November 13th!

Hitching Post Theater November 14, 2011 at the Nomad Theater in North Boulder. Click on the logo to go to the facebook page!

The Hitching Post Theater happens tonight November 13th at the Nomad Theater in North Boulder.

Five writers have three hours to write a short stage play around two actors selected at random.

The plays are handed to a director and the actors who have until 5:30pm to rehearse before the first performance at 6:30pm and the second at 8:00pm. Click on the Hitching Post logo to find out more from the facebook page.

Alan O’Hashi was one of the writers for this month. You can check out his work by opening the link to The Last Waltz. He had the challenge of writing for an actor with laryngitis which is reflected in the no-dialogue play.

The Shoot Out 24 hour filmmaking fest – Boulder!

Make a movie, submit it on time and you may win $1000 for 'Best Picture'!

The Shoot Out BoulderTh asks filmmakers to trust their courage, imagination and determination by making a 7-minute film in just 24 hours. The challenge and skill involved becomes evident with the list of required technical, material, and timing ‘rules.’

Each film can be no longer than 7 minutes in length (including credits) and must be edited in-camera and returned to the event organizers no later than 24 hours after the start of the event.

All films must include 5 of the eleven items announced at the start of the event in “The Brief.” All films are judged to come up with the Top 10 Films for the Gala Screening Event at the Nomad Theater in North Boulder on Sunday afternoon.

Click on the image to check out The Shoot Out webpage!

Sawagi! Raising a Ruckus for Japan April 26th

Click the image to contribute for your Sawagi! Raising a Ruckus for Japan tickets

“SAWAGI! Raising a Ruckus for Japan,” a silent auction and original musical drama performance will generate funds to send clean drinking water from Boulder to Japan’s earthquake victims. ANYONE can participate from ANYWHERE, sending water and a message of inspirational hope, boosting the morale of the victims, as well as citizens throughout Japan.

Click on the Sawagi! image on the left to make a suggested donation for tickets.

SAWAGI! (rhymes with “a froggy!”) will be presented at 5:30 pm, Tuesday, April 26…, at Naropa University, Nalanda Events Center, Boulder, Colorado. Suggested donations for tickets are $35/$20 Students. You can attend in spirit by not drinking bottled water for a month and donating the money saved (or some ideal amount) to the cause! Auction items and more information can be found at www.naropa.edu/japanbenefit/.

Fundraising efforts for the event include ticket sales, a live silent auction and benefactor sponsorships and donations. With a fund-raising goal of $100,000, donations will are being solicited both locally and nationally. 100% of the net proceeds will go to purchase and deliver desperately needed clean water to Japan’s earthquake victims. The event will include volunteer performances by prominent Boulder artists, including the bands Shrefé (Greek/Balkan) and Ginga (Brazilian), Ty Burhoe (tablas), Yoko Hiraoka (Japanese strings and voice) and others in an original musical drama created along the lines of Japan’s classical Noh Theater by international shakuhachi master Kansuke II (David Wheeler) and co-directed by international actor/director Ami Dayan.

‘PRT Woman’ on stage at Hitching Post Theater March 13th

The Hitching Post Theater presents five short plays tonight, March 13th, at the Nomad Theater in North Boulder.

The event begins at 630pm with music and he plays begin at 7pm. Five writers are challenged with writing a story from 830am to 1230pm. The plays are handed off to five directors and two actors per play for five hours of rehearsal before the plays are presented at 7pm.

Alan O’Hashi was one of the March playwrights. Check out his work entitled “PRT Woman” which was inspired by Michael Conti by clicking on the Hitching Post Theater snapshots.

BCM curtain to curtain coverage of the Boulder International Film Festival

BCM reporter Brooke Cummings visits with Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone on the red carpet. Videographer Brett Thurlow catches the action.

Boulder Community Media (BCM) provided curtain-to-curtain coverage of the 7th Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF).

Click on the image of BCM reporter Brooke Cummings with Oliver Stone to view the BIFF videos.

A crew of 26 covered 16 events at the Boulder Theater, Boulder Public Library and the United Methodist Church Feb. 17 – 20.

BCM collaborated with the film classes at Fairview High School and the University of Colorado – Boulder Broadcast Journalism classes.

BCM video content was shot, edited and made available to the public via the BIFF website, the BCM website and on the Anvil T-shirt Quick Response (QR) Code website.

Check out prAna movie night January 11th – “Reel Rock 2010″

Boulder Community Media (BCM) is co-sponsoring the prAna monthly Movie Night @ 7pm on January 21st, 2011. Check out the event on facebook.

January’s movie is “Reel Rock 2010″ presented by Sender Films

Free popcorn and Avery Beer!!

Thank you Avery Brewery for Co-Sponsoring this event!

Thank you Sender Films for Co-Sponsoring this event!

Daddy Bruce and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Daddy Bruce Randolph remembers cutting the hair of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here’s a short documentary called “My Own Corner” produced by former Boulder Community Media producer Yu Miao. The project is her final University of Colorado broadcast journalism project.

The film features 80-year old Bruce Randolph Jr. of Boulder, Colorado. Bruce owns a barbecue and catering business at the corner of 20th and Arapahoe.

He is the son of community activist and grassroots philanthropist Bruce Randolph Sr.

Before getting into the restaurant business Daddy Bruce Jr. was a barber in North Denver. He recounts cutting the hair of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Principle photography is by Alan O’Hashi with sound by Todd Bradley.

BCM wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!

We at Boulder Community Media (BCM) wish everyone a Merry Christmas. As we move to the end of 2010 and into a new year, we hope that your lives will be prosperous and filled with happiness and great opportunities.

The year began with preparations for the Boulder International Film Festival in February. BCM provided full video coverage of the BIFF capped with exclusive interviews with Alec Baldwin on closing night.

BCM has provided the organization structure for Wyoming Community Media (WCM) which produced the Cheyenne International Film Festival in May screening 35 films over three days at the historic Atlas Theatre in Downtown Cheyenne. Planning is underway for CIFF May 20-22.

The summer time was filled with production work, including partnerships with the Boulder Reporter and  Wyoming Lifestyle Magazine.

Fall brought The Shoot Out Boulder in late September followed by The Shoot Out Cheyenne in mid-October.

How time flies and as we move into the new year, we leave you with a great moment from “The Christmas Gift” starring John Denver. the 1986 film was shot in Georgtown and Beaver Creek, Colorado. Click on the VHS jacket to play the clip.