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01.26.10
- OLA Fest To Screen ACTS OF MERCY With Director Laura Lopez
OLA Fest ‘10, the Orlando Latin Film & Heritage Festival will host a special screening of ACTS OF MERCY, a feature film created by Laura Lopez as part of the graduate film program at UCF. The screening will take place on Saturday, Feb. 13 @ 2pm at the UCF Center For Emerging Media in the Bridge Auditorium. Writer/Director/Producer Lopez will be in attendance and host a Q&A after the screening.
01.25.10
- Clark & McClary Multimedia Exhibit @ Gallery 500
UCF is proud to present an exhibit of the multimedia work of Hunt Clark & Deborah McClary at Gallery 500, in the UCF Center For Emerging Media. The show opens with an artist talk reception on Thursday, Feb 4 at 1PM followed by an opening reception in the evening (6-9PM). The show will run through February 26, 2010.
10.19.09
- Home Movie Day Returns to CEM’s STUDIO 500
The UCF FILM Department ran it’s third successful HOME MOVIE DAY event this past weekend at the Center for Emerging Media’s STUDIO 500 soundstage.
Part of a national movement of similar events, HOME MOVIE DAY allows amateurs and professionals alike to share their 8-millimeter, Super 8 or 16-millimeter home movies. Decaying images from family vacations, bar mitzvah celebrations, long forgotten family members and other ephemera were the order of the day, with the prevailing ethos that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
For more information on other Home Movie Day celebrations, visit their website: www.homemovieday.com.
10.19.09
- Terrific Article About STUDIO 500 In St Pete Times
The St. Pete Times, FLorida’s largest and most-widely read paper, just ran an excellent article about STUDIO 500 and the new state university revenue model we’re helping to create. Check it out here.
10.14.09
• JUST ANOTHER DAY To Screen At Orlando Film Festival
The UCF Center For Emerging Media is pleased to announced that JUST ANOTHER DAY, a feature film shot in downtown Orlando and based at Studio 500, will screen at the Orlando Film Festival
JUST ANOTHER DAY will be showing on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 3:00pm at the Plaza Cinema Cafe located at 155 S. Orange Ave. Orlando, FL 32801. After the showing a Q & A session will be held. The event like all showings at the Orlando Film Festival are FREE. Check out a trailer below!
09.08.09
• OUT Wraps At Studio 500
Nils Taranger, a senior at UCF FILM, has wrapped production of his Capstone short film OUT at STUDIO 500, in UCF’s Center for Emerging Media. Says Nils of the project, “This was my first experience directing a film on a soundstage. We were lucky enough to be able to shoot at the UCF Center for Emerging Media, which has a perfectly sized, state of the art soundstage with brand new gear. We would never have been able to pull off making this film on location, because of camera angles and lighting. It’s awesome that UCF Film has provided us with everything we need to make quality, indie shorts of all shapes and sizes.”
Two pics here show the films final shot from both sides of the camera. DP Alex Boyle “blew out” a 12 x 12 silk with several thousands watts of light (left) to create a washed-out effect as the young male star walks into the bright lights of his future (below).
The film, explains Taranger, is “a personal metaphor for coming out as a gay man and coming out of an oppressive religion. I made the film not only for myself, but for anyone who has experienced coming out in it’s many forms - a bad relationship, an oppressive regime, etc. I also hope to inspire people who have yet to take the first step out, into a world that can be frightening and unwelcoming, but also full of hope and love.”
08.19.09
• UCF Grad Art Track Moves Into CEM
The MFA in Studio Art & the Computer is pleased to announce a new off-campus location in the heart of downtown Orlando. Master’s degree candidates will begin occupying the 7000+sq/ft space when classes begin fall 2009.
New facilities include a state of art digital imaging lab and private studio spaces located in an interdisciplinary environment, which fosters MFA research and collaborative projects. The new facilities are located inside UCF’s Center for Emerging Media and join the already extant UCF programs: FIEA, UCF FILM, Visual Language & Create which are all a part of the city’s greater vision of a Creative Village for Orlando. In addition, UCF’s Flying Horse Press Editions and the University of Florida’s Citylab-Orlando join the MFA Studio Art & the Computer as occupants of the new facilities at CEM.
Click on the picture below to check out the latest expansion at the Center for Emerging Media.
08.11.09
• Brady Robinson Photo Exhibit Starts August 27th
The UCF Center for Emerging Media kicks off their fall exhibition season with “Shift”, a series of color photographs by E. Brady Robinson.
Opening reception is Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 6:00pm. The installation is a mapping of geography encountered and time lived as the artist drifts from landscape to landscape both in her home country and abroad. Exhibit is curated by Chan Chao. Elizabeth Brady Robinson is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the UCF MFA in Studio Art & the Computer.
More Information:
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 to 5pm or by appointment
Contact: Elizabeth Brady Robinson (407-823-3108, ebrobins@mail.ucf.edu )
06.08.09
• UCF’s Studio 500 Brings Big Names, Bigger Opportunities to Orlando
New Hannah Montana game highlights a string of successful projects
Just down the hall from their classrooms, University of Central Florida (UCF) students and faculty helped to choreograph and create the new Hannah Montana video game (”Hannah Montana - The Movie”) and have worked alongside celebrities such as Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter.
UCF’s Center for Emerging Media in downtown Orlando features one of the largest motion-capture studios on the East Coast, an adjacent sound stage, production offices and editing suites. Collectively known as Studio 500 — a play on the building’s 500 W. Livingston St. location — the facilities have attracted a steady stream of entertainment companies from around the continent in the first 18 months of operation and have hosted more than 25 UCF student film shoots.
The complex provides students with invaluable production experience rarely offered on a university campus while bringing name recognition to Orlando’s booming simulation and entertainment industry.
Working with studio partner Vicon Entertainment’s House of Moves, faculty and staff from UCF’s graduate game-development program, the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA), typically operate the cameras and sensors in the motion-capture studio with assistance from students.
“Studio 500 provides our students and faculty with exceptional opportunities to work with the latest technology and collaborate with top professionals in the entertainment industry,” said Ben Noel, FIEA’s executive director. “From making their own films to helping to create video games and commercials, students are gaining experience that makes them even more attractive to potential employers.”
05.06.09
• JUST ANOTHER DAY Feature Film Wraps At STUDIO 500
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t Another Day, a hip-hop feature film co-produced by Ralph Clemente and his crew from Valencia Community College, recently based their month-long production at STUDIO 500, part of the UCF Center For Emerging Media. The crew - filled with locals and imports from around the state and LA - keep a wing of offices busy here as well as edit facilities, our entire rear parking load and loading dock even shot a scene on our sound stage.
The film is about a rising young rap star (Jamie Hector of TV’s The Wire) and a veteran rapper trying to hang on to the top (Wood Harris, also of The Wire) as they go through “everything a rap artist goes through in a day,” says Oscar-nominated director Peter Spirer (Rhyme & Reason). The drama is set in Miami, but downtown Orlando was the location, with filming in the Parramore neighborhood, the H2O church (formerly the club 8 Seconds) and the Drop Shop record store. Rappers such as Ja Rule, Trick Daddy, Young Dre, Petey Pablo, Little Scrappy and Big Daddy Kane make appearances in the film, which Spirer wrote.
In the picture above, Director Peter Spier talks to rapper Young Dre.