Both Final Draft and Movie Magic are offering discount codes to Drexel students who would like to purchase their software. 

For Final Draft, you can click here to sign up for an 18 week educational free trial using your Drexel email account. You can also purchase Final Draft for the discounted price of $99.99 by clicking here. Be sure to use the discount code linked below. 

For Movie Magic Scheduling and Budgeting, you can purchase each for the discounted price of $185. First, set up an account at the EP web store here using your Drexel email, then go to the Academic Software page here. In the drop down menu, select either Movie Magic Scheduling or Movie Magic Budgeting (or both), enter your Drexel email address, and click “add to cart”. Proceed to checkout, and enter your school coupon code listed in the link below. Click “add coupon” and “order now” to complete the transaction. 

You can purchase Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 for the discounted price of $99.95 by clicking here. Be sure to fill out an academic proof form here after you make your purchase. 

Click here to view the discount codes for Final Draft, Movie Magic Scheduling, and Movie Magic Budgeting. Use your Drexel email account to gain access. 

Hello and welcome back! Hopefully your break was enjoyable. You may have noticed that the computers in the Cinema & Television labs look a little different. There were some major updates while you were gone. All Mac computers were updated from OS X Yosemite to OS X Sierra, Adobe CC was updated to the latest 2017 release, Avid Media Composer was updated from 8.8.1 to 8.9.0, Final Cut Pro was updated from 10.1.4 to 10.3.4, Pro Tools was updated from 11.3.2 to 12.8.0, Shot Put Pro was updated from 5 to 6, DaVinci Resolve was updated from 12.5.0 to 12.5.6, Microsoft Office was updated from 2013 to 2016, and the iZotope audio plugins in 026 and 035 have been updated from RX 4 to RX 6. Lastly, a new flatscreen has been mounted in the 018 meeting space. As always, if you experience any technical issues you can report the problem here.

Laurel Hill Cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia will be hosting an outdoor film series this summer.

Friday, July 28 at 9:00PM: Army of Darkness (1992)
Friday, August 18 at 9:00PM: House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Friday, September 8 at 8:00PM: Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972)

Founded in 1836, Laurel Hill Cemetery was one of the first rural cemeteries established in the the United States. It was designated a national landmark in 1998. 

Tickets are $10 per person. Click here for more information.

The Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia will be holding a film projection workshop exclusively for Drexel students on Thursday, July 27th at 2PM. In the age of digital cinema, film projection in movie theaters has become increasingly scarce. However, thanks to a newfound interest in this old technology, film projection is starting to make a comeback. Come learn all about the art of 16mm and 35mm film projection using the Lightbox Film Center’s state-of-the-art projectors. If interested, please RSVP to Nick Natalicchio at njn27@drexel.edu. 

The Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia is hosting a free screening of the John Carpenter film They Live. Released in 1988, They Live stars former pro-wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper as John Nada, a drifter who discovers a pair of sunglasses that allows him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

The screening is organized in conjunction with the ICA exhibition Myths of the Marble, which considers how the virtual is engaged by contemporary artists as a way to image and imagine the world as a site of possibility and a set of limitations. You can RSVP for the free screening here.

Does the subject of your video have unsightly wrinkles, marks, or blemishes that you’d like to remove? Now you can with Beauty Box Digital Makeup! This video plugin automatically identifies skin tones and creates a mask that limits the smoothing effect to the skin areas. Just apply the filter, let it analyze the video, set a few Smoothing options, and let the plugin render to make skin retouching incredibly easy. Beauty Box Digital Makeup is installed on all four color grading computers (UCROSS 017) and can be found in DaVinci Resolve under ResolveFX. You can learn more about the plugin here. 

Our very own Dean Sabinson of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and Dean Linnehan of the LeBow College of Business are going back-to-back spinning their favorite tracks on Thursday, June 8th from 10AM to 12PM. You can tune in on WKDU Philadelphia 91.7 FM or at WKDU.org. 

All soon to be Cinema & Television graduates are encouraged to join faculty and staff at this years Senior Send-Off. The event will be held at Wahoo’s Tacos (3180 Chestnut St.) from 4:00PM to 7:00PM. There will be appetizers, drinks, and a raffle with tons of great prizes! You can RSVP at westphal.drexel.edu/seniorsendoff. We hope to see you there!

The Philadelphia Film Office is hosting a rally to support the regional film industry. The rally will be held on Saturday, June 3rd. People are encouraged to meet at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, bottom of the Rocky steps, between 10am and 11am. The local film industry creates family sustaining jobs for a huge base of production professionals, support businesses and their employees, and provides outstanding content for and about our city and region. Unique challenges are threatening the ability of our local workforce to be able to live and work in Philadelphia while supporting their families. This rally is to unite and galvanize industry and elected officials into addressing the urgency of supporting the film, TV, commercial, and multi-media industry of Philadelphia. Come out and show your support!

There is still time to submit your video to WestPhest! The categories this year are INTERMEDIATE CINEMATOGRAPHY, NARRATIVE, EXPERIMENTAL, INDEPENDENT PROJECT, DOCUMENTARY, PRODUCTION WORKSHOP, ANIMATION, MICROBUDGET, and FRESHMAN FILM. The submission fee is $10 for the first film you submit and $5 for any additional films. You will receive one ticket to the festival and pre-screening reception for that first submission, but not the subsequent ones. All money goes towards cash prizes. Stop by UCROSS 057 for the entry form and for more details.

Westphest will be held on Thursday, May 18th in the URBN Annex Screening Room at 7:30PM. The pre-screening reception at Landmark starts at 5:00PM. Food and drinks will be provided.

UPDATE: Submission deadline has been extended to Friday, May 5th 4:30PM!