MCC Film Blog

School Is Back In Session

Nice to see someone finally posting on here! Yes, City of God is excellent! Graphic and violent. Touching, moving and powerful, too. I taped a story on the making of Open Water this morning. There's a bit about it on my blog. Made for $120,000, sold at Sundance for $2 million; it's made $10 million so far. Not bad for miniDV with two actors and a bunch of sharks.

Cinematography & Lighting Class

Don't forget to register for Kohl's class this fall! It's cinematography and lighting for digital film and it meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9am until 11:45 ... the course is ART290-0436. The course needs 13 to "make" and is currently stuck at 6 ... so, if you're waiting to register, you'll miss your chance.

Also, there's the AfterEffects class on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:10 until 9:50pm. That class will focus on motion graphics with the ultimate goal of creating a documentary in the style of The Kid Stays In The Picture. Help keep the digital film program growing! That class is ART290-0448.

Printing Brochures For Fun & Profit

How to make a nice brochure from an inkjet printer ... tough ... but here's the best way to approximate it ...

1. Use Quark or similar program ... draw a line from edge to edge both horizontally and vertically ... and bleed it off all sides.
   
2. Print the page and measure where the non-printing edge is ...
   
3. Now, use this as a guide for your margins and gutters ...
   
4. The MARGINS should be just a tad larger than the non-printing area (for example, if the non-printing area is 3/8", then make margins 4/8" (or 1/2").
   
5. The GUTTERS (columns=3) should be DOUBLE the margin because you want the amount of white space to be the same on all sides of each panel.
   
6. There will be about a 1/32" shift because of the fold but most people can't see it.

You tend to have large margins with inkjet printers because of the non-printing edges ... but at least this way they'll be even.