Portfolio Center Announcement

Reel Impressions | March 19

This Wednesday, March 19 at 4:30PM come get tips about assembling a reel, building a website, and designing materials such as a DVD cover, press kit or business card. During this session we’ll show you examples of good film packages and discuss ways for your work to make a reel good impression. Open to all students. Location: Portfolio Center, 623 S. Wabash, room 307




DVD Cover Design at Design Daze| March 31 & April 4

What’s Design Daze you ask? It’s a chance for juniors, seniors, recent grads & grad students to spend 45 minutes with a graphic designer who will create a DVD cover for your film or reel. You can’t beat the price (it's free, printing not included) and professional quality is guaranteed. Your work is worth it!



To participate Monday, March 30 or Friday, April 4 you MUST RSVP by March 24. Call 312-344-7280 to RSVP. All RSVPs will be asked to submit additional information about their project in order to participate.



Last Design Daze of the semester:

Monday, May 5 and Friday, May 9 – Register by April 28





JUST ANNOUCED! Shoot-A-Spot Call for Filmmakers! Deadline May 2

We’re looking for student producers, directors, cinematographers, editors and all other crew positions to shoot three commercials. The Portfolio Center, Art & Design and Marketing Communication departments held a competition (Get Your Spot Shot) giving opportunity to advertising art and copywriting students to submit their best commercial ideas. Three concepts will be chosen and we’d like to enlist YOU (well, maybe you but definitely production students) to shoot the projects in June. For details and application visit www.colum.edu/spotshot and check out the “Info for Filmmakers” section.



Don’t forget about Short Cuts, your chance to bring in your footage and meet with an editor who can cut a professional reel for you; for FREE. This service is open to film & video, television, and broadcast journalism senior-level students, graduate students and recent graduates ready to assemble their final reels. By appointment only. Contact Keesha Johnson, Production Manager, at kajohnson@colum.edu or 312-344-8624 for details.





Also, did you know that the Portfolio Center offers a free web publishing service for seniors, grad students and recent grads to get their work online? Visit www.colum.edu/portfolio and click the “Portfolio Web” link for details

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