NUAMPS Blog » Video http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu Northwestern University Advanced Media Production Studio - Thoughts and such. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Waa Mu on the Big Ten Network! http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/09/waa-mu-on-the-big-ten-network/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/09/waa-mu-on-the-big-ten-network/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:41:47 +0000 Mark Skala http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=1177 Just a reminder that the NUAMPS production, “Making the Waa Mu Show 2009,” will be premiering soon on the Big Ten Network! Making the Waa Mu Show 2009 follows co-chairs Julie Beck, Kaitlin Fine, Cara Rifkin, Eugenio Vargas, and Director Dominic Missimi through the process of how one of the most celebrated and well respected college productions is transformed from an idea to the stage.

Making the Waa Mu Show 2009

The schedule for all upcoming NUAMPS programming on the Big 10 Network is below.

September 30, 2009
9:30 am – Concerto for Piano, D Major – Maurice Ravel
3:00 pm – Waa-Mu 2009 (Performance)
3:00 am – Handel’s Joshua

October 14, 2009
9:00 am – Making the Waa Mu Show 2009 ***Premiere
3:00 pm – Making the Waa Mu Show 2009
3:00 am – Making the Waa Mu Show 2009

October 16, 2009
9:00 am – Waa Mu 2009 (Performance)
3:00 pm – Waa Mu 2009 (Performance)
3:00 am – Waa Mu 2009 (Performance)

October 28, 2009
9:00 am – Off the Chart, Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra
3:00 pm – Off the Chart, Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra
3:00 am – Off the Chart, Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra

]]> http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/09/waa-mu-on-the-big-ten-network/feed/ 0 3rd Annual Oncofertility Consortium Conference http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/09/3rd-annual-oncofertility-consortium-conference/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/09/3rd-annual-oncofertility-consortium-conference/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:46:27 +0000 Dave Look http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=1167 Mark Skala Oncofertily Consortium Shoot

The third annual meeting of the Oncofertility Consortium will be held next week, September 13-15, in Chicago, Illinois. Over 150 participants from the U.S. and abroad will discuss the latest breakthroughs in the science and clinical applications of fertility preservation methods for cancer patients. More information on the event, including a meeting agenda, can be found here.

NUAMPS is doing a three camera shoot as well as broadcasting the conference using Adobe Connect. Mark Skala is directing and Mike Curtis is providing support for Adobe Connect as well as coordinating the presentations.

Tune into the conference using Adobe Connect here: http://nwuniversity.na3.acrobat.com/oncofertility/

For more information about the Oncofertility Consortium check out: http://oncofertility.northwestern.edu or http://blog.oncofertility.northwestern.edu

]]> http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/09/3rd-annual-oncofertility-consortium-conference/feed/ 0 Network Render Test this Afternoon http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/08/network-render-test-this-afternoon/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/08/network-render-test-this-afternoon/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:18:05 +0000 Dave Look http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=1153 Mark and I will testing and configuring our video workstations for network rendering this afternoon.  With all of our productions being shot and mastered in full HD render times can get a little long on the larger projects.  We will be using our XSan network for the network render tests.

Maybe someday we can have an awesome render farm like the one Pixar used for Toy Story:

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Just a reminder that the spring program NUAMPS produced for University Relations and the Big Ten Network, “Northwestern Jazz Orchestra:  Off the Charts” will be screening again tomorrow morning at 8AM CST on the BTN.  It will also screen early on Saturday, August 8, and twice on August 26.

This program features the new head of the Jazz Studies program at NU, renown clarinetist and saxophonist Victor Goines; Professor of Jazz Studies and tenor saxophonist, Christopher Madsen; and students of the NU Jazz Studies program.

Tell your friends!

]]> http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/08/northwestern-jazz-orchestra-off-the-charts-hd/feed/ 1 1948 Chicago the Beautiful http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/07/1948-chicago-the-beautiful/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/07/1948-chicago-the-beautiful/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:53:03 +0000 Dave Look http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=1136

Thought this was an interesting film about Chicago, would love to remake it today.

]]> http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/07/1948-chicago-the-beautiful/feed/ 1 OSA: Sisters in Science Documentary upcoming premiere http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/07/osa-sisters-in-science-documentary-upcoming-premiere/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/07/osa-sisters-in-science-documentary-upcoming-premiere/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:17:23 +0000 Harlan Wallach http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=1128 Osa: Sisters in Science premieres next Thursday night.

Here is the Movie Poster:

Picture 61

Here is the trailer:

]]> http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/07/osa-sisters-in-science-documentary-upcoming-premiere/feed/ 0 Carmina Burana http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/carmina-burana/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/carmina-burana/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 20:47:12 +0000 Mark Skala http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=836 carmina

We ended the busy week for the video group with an orchestral and choral delight!  Saturday nigth at 7:30 PM we started off with Ottorino Respighi’s, Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) and Carlisle Floyd’s, “Ain’t it a Pretty Night?” from Susannah. Following an intermission we delved into the epic and powerful Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff.

We shot the rehearsal Saturday morning to get some B-roll for the piece, and that night we captured the event in its entirety.  It has been crazy week for the elves, and we couldn’t think of a better way to end it.  The Northwestern University Symphonic Choir and Symphony Orchestra were outstanding and we are excited to start editing the piece to send to the Big 10 Network.

]]> http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/carmina-burana/feed/ 0 Waa Mu – on Channel 7 http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/waa-mu-on-channel-7/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/waa-mu-on-channel-7/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 22:39:41 +0000 Harlan Wallach http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=820 picture-29

Interview with Kaitlin Fine & one number in studio from the show.

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What do Sonic the Hedgehog, Rapunzel, pharmaceutical black box warnings, Waldo, and a camera jib have in common?

Over the last 48 hours, they’ve been involved in NUAMPS projects. We began downtown with Northwestern University’s School of Law, documenting a symposium entitled The Pharmaceutical Industry: Economics, Regulation, and Legal Issues. Instructors and participants from all around the country came to discuss topics ranging from drug development and consumer advertising to the safety and risks of prescription drugs.

The program continued on Tuesday, where operations split in two – my group continued the downtown shoot, and Mark ventured north to set up our six camera shoot for the annual Waa Mu show tonight, One for the Books. The stage is a gigantic bookshelf, complete with secret windows, doorways, library codes up to my head, and towering spines past raised curtains. Each number is book-themed, from an assassin sent out on a search and kill mission for Waldo, to a full cast number of tap dancers learning from Tap for Dummies.

I was assaulted backstage during a rehearsal when Bell threw a piece of bread at her Beast and missed. Astronauts were attacked by a colossal cave beast, zombies danced, and Harry Potter sang.

Such are the perils of this line of work.

My downtown group changed locations to the Lurie Center where we shot the annual Scott Lecture, this year entitled Communicating with Hedgehogs. Featuring Richard A. Scott (pictured above), Professor of Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Bioengineering from Stanford University, he discussed specific proteins signals called Sonic hedgehog (named after exactly who you think it’s named after) and their role in cerebellum development and tumors.

Next week: Cataloguing the personal genome with George Church!

]]> http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/past-48-hours/feed/ 0 It’s One For the Books! http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/its-one-for-the-books/ http://blog.nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/2009/05/its-one-for-the-books/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 18:54:40 +0000 Mark Skala http://nuamps.at.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=811 waamu_blog2

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Here at NUAMPS we have a busy night ahead of us.  We are shooting the Waa Mu Performance here at Cahn Auditorium, and right now we are preparing for the show.  This is a full team effort with Harlan at the helm, and the web team helping out the video team, more specifically Chris Wallace on Stage Cam 1, and Dave Look working with Don Kenyon on sound.  We also have some of our part-time workers Erin Kitzinger, Carole Wefler, and Sean Clark doing on camera and doing PA work.  And last but not least we have 2 of our student employees working the show tonight.  So it is certainly going to be a goulash of talented people on stage and off tonight, and by curtain close, it most definitely will be “One for the Books.”

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