New York Film Academy With the success of our former students with reality shows and online blogging (lonelygirl15), we at the New York Film Academy would like to provide an outlet for our students to post their personal blogs for you all to read. Given the enormous amount of talent that comes through and from NYFA, along with the nature of the business, it’s unfortunate that we may know of a talented student months, even years before the world has the opportunity to see them and their work. This is our opportunity to provide a diary for these students and for you as they experience a year in the New York Film Academy.
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 10:43 AM ( 424 views )
- Yonghui Chen
Finally, after what's seemed like an overly lame last couple of weeks of "new releases" at the box office, Hollywood has decided to put out this weekend. Okay, so maybe it's not the best lineup gracing our multiplexes, but there looks to be some quality on the docket. 88 Minutes brings us another dose of past his prime Pacino, where the Oscar winner is given 88 Minutes to live, not by a doctor, but by someone trying to actually kill him. We're not sure if 88 Minutes is enough time though for AP to give one of his trademark meaningless impassioned speeches, but odds are they'll work it in somehow. The Kung Fu version of AARP is also in action this weekend as Jet Li and Jackie Chan give Michael Angarano (who?) the ancient Daniel LaRussa treatment.
While both of those options are well and good and sure to get their fair share of box office buckaroos, we're most excited about the latest Judd Apatow produced comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall". While in our estimation Apatow produced fare can be hit (Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) or miss (Drillbit Taylor, Walk Hard) the best comedies bearing his name are the ones that mine the comedy from the lives of people that could be you or me rather than focus on absurd characters like Ron Burgundy and judging by the reviews, Forgetting Sarah Marshall seems to be along the lines of the former. Maybe it'll even make Jason Segel a star in the same way that Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill have taken off, but maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves. The first step in declaring someone a star is seeing their movie, which is exactly what we plan to do this weekend.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 08:46 AM ( 442 views )
- Yonghui Chen
Joyce Sauber writing for the Hillsboro Argus has a column on Oregonlive.com that talks about a documentary film made by two New York Film Academy Film School Students:
Who were those girls with the movie camera in the Gales Creek Valley this past week?
Eva Maria "Evi" Rudy and Shannon Marie Welch descended on Gales Creek a week ago to shoot two documentary films about Gales Creek - one about the history of Gales Creek and the other about the LNG pipeline issue.
The two women attend The New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Read the entire article here.
Monday, April 21, 2008, 10:39 AM ( 427 views )
- Yonghui Chen
“Readers of media-related Web sites have been bombarded with ads promoting NBC News’s partnership with the New York Film Academy. In Los Angeles, billboards for the four-week, eight-week and one-year digital journalism training programs loom large, part of an aggressive ad campaign to spread the word before the first summer classes.”
Through study and hands-on practice, students are trained in the fundamental principles, techniques, and craft of digital journalism. This is accomplished through a combination of lecture, demonstration, in-class hands-on production, and the students' own work.
Each student produces a series of prerecorded news projects, shot both single and multi-camera and edited on Final-Cut Pro.
Students who complete this program should be able to confidently produce, shoot, report, record, and edit digital news projects suitable for broadcast. The first semester provides a foundation in digital and journalistic skills that students will apply to more advanced work in the second semester where the focus is on Live, Remote, Satellite, and News show production.
All film school and acting school camps are solely owned and operated by the New York Film Academy and are not affiliated with Universal Studios, Harvard University, or Disney-MGM Studios.
