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.

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!

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.”

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.

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 )

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.”

In November, FIEA professor Ron Weaver helped choreograph and direct the dance routines for the new “Hannah Montana: The Movie” video game in the motion-capture studio with Orlando-based game developer n-Space. The game was released worldwide in April by Disney Interactive Studios.

Wearing body suits with small, reflective sensors, Weaver and a group of dancers were digitally captured spinning and kicking so that n-Space’s artists could perfectly recreate the body movements of Hannah and her dancers in the game. UCF cheerleaders also demonstrated throws and other acrobatic moves featured in the game.

Several FIEA grads helped to program and design the game as n-Space employees.

Other companies such as Electronic Arts, Rugged Entertainment, 360Ed, Ignition Entertainment and international advertising agency BBDO have rented the facility and its equipment. In March 2008, sports celebrities Woods, Jeter and Roger Federer filmed national commercials for Gillette in the studio.

“Studio 500 is bringing in big opportunities to Orlando,” said Suzy Spang, vice president of technology and entertainment for the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission. “It helps position Orlando as a technology and entertainment destination in industries as diverse as biotech and simulation to film and digital media and beyond. All aspects of Orlando’s community are able to take advantage of this wonderful regional asset.”

In the summer of 2008, UCF film students worked on the set of the horror film “The Tenant,” which is scheduled to be released this year. The film, written and directed by Ric La Monte, includes several rooms and the hallways of a mental hospital that were built on Studio 500’s soundstage.

Wrapping this past month, Studio 500’s most recent project was the hip-hop feature film “Just Another Day.” Directed by the Oscar-nominated Peter Spirer (“Rhyme and Reason”) and co-produced by Ralph Clemente and his film crew from Valencia Community College, the film stars Jamie Hector of TV’s “The Wire” and features appearances by real-life rappers Ja Rule, Trick Daddy and Big Daddy Kane.

For more on Studio 500 and a look at the facility’s past projects, go here. To check out professor Weaver’s work on the Hannah Montana game, click the picture at the top of this page!

Just 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.

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The day-long event - organized by UCF FILM and produced by UCF FILM alumni Danny Daneau and Laura Lopez - occured on the STUDIO 500 soundstage and enjoyed an audience of over 150. Quite a hit for this kind of show, huh? For more information on other Home Movie Day celebrations, visit their website: www.homemovieday.com.