Spring 2014 Newsletter

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Art of Film & Video Screenings

Every Thursday (during the Spring 2014 semester), Joe Kluge and his two Art of Film & Video classes screen different movies in Blodgett Hall room 108. Food and refreshments are always served at the screenings and EVERYONE is welcomed!

The Art of Film & Video is a Communications course that explores the major impact of twentieth-century art movements in opening up the range of creative possibilities and perspectives in the making of film and video. The course aims to encourage familiarity with, sensitivity to, and understanding of innovative uses of form, content, techniques, and ideas since the beginnings of cinema.

Look out for different posters every week in the first floor hallway of Blodgett Hall to see which movie will be screened.  This week, the class will be screening Bruno Bozzetto's piece, "Allegro non Troppo." This movie can only be described as a cross between "Fantasia" and "Yellow Submarine" with a touch of Fellini.

Hope to see everyone there!

The Romantic Film Festival

This spring semester, Works in Progress presents, "The Romantic Film Festival."

Anyone can submit a piece to the festival, just make sure it's romantic! You may submit any form of media, video, film, audio, artwork, etc. Please submit your work by Friday, March 28th at 4:00pm.

Whether you submit or not, please join us on April 2nd at 7:00pm in the PAC Black Box to celebrate The Romantic Film Festival. There will be an after-party with free food and refreshments.

See you all there!

Meet the PadCaster

Open house at the Manhattan Edit Workshop

What's your favorite edit? Josh Apter, Founder of Manhattan Edit Workshop, wants to know.

I stopped by the new home of Manhattan Edit Workshop on March 19 to take in an open house and to say hello. Located in the same building as Tekserve, a must know Mac shop for anyone using Apple computers, Mew was started in 2002 to provide training for Apple, Adobe, and other software for the creative and business community.  For students the Workshop is a unique way to continue their post production journey, whether as editors, color graders, after effect artists. It is also a wonderful way to meet others with a like interest in the technology and creative aspects of post production.

The open house was a busy meeting place for filmmakers and included over two hours of simultaneous training sessions in four classrooms, including explorations of Premiere, Smoke, Final Cut X, and Davinci Resolve. Before sitting in on the Resolve session I was reminded that one must stay on their toes when around Josh Apter, founder of MEW, and his crew - "So what's your favorite edit, Tom" I heard him say as I turned and faced the cool and useful Padcaster.  It's one of those brain freezing moments that you want to go perfectly - to jump up and quickly elucidate on the power of cinema editing. Of course nothing came to mind - as I sat there for what seemed like days. "Can I talk about a general editing style instead of a single edit?" Josh was kind and allowed it. I had just seen The Raid 2, the third film by a young martial arts director named Gareth Evans and had been pondering the way he elongates time through intercutting - and what a wonderful opportunity to discuss it!

Out with the old, In with the new!

Welcome to Adelphi's Communications Department new blog space - DotCOMM. The name may be old, but the site is new and redesigned. Here you will find a plethora of information about the Communications Department, what we are up to, and what students have to say.

We would like to pick up from where our old weblog left off - with a short video created by Professor Joan Stein Schimke, about our Alumni and their experiences in the Comm Department.

Please visit our YouTube page HERE to find more videos created by our faculty and students.