UC San Diego Extension Digital Arts Center Video Production Program Teams Up with The 48 Hour Film Project

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) September 01, 2011

UC San Diego Extensions Digital Arts Center, Video and Editing program students participated in The 48 Hour Film Project, this past August 5-7, 2011. The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which teams of filmmakers are assigned one character, one prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, and asked to create a movie within a two day deadline. Upon completion, the movies are screened at local theaters, and awards are given for numerous categories such as Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Writing, and Best Film.

UC San Diego Extensions Digital Arts video production program is a one year career focused professional training program. The program utilizes industry leading software, enabling students to create high quality productions for a variety of delivery formats. The multimedia training includes the principles of storytelling, videography, editing, motion graphics and audio. The program allows students to gain hands-on experience while immediately applying their new skills.

At The 48 Hour Film Project, students put their newly acquired skills to the ultimate test. The film project, deliberately designed to focus on a tight deadline, presented a perfect platform for students to display their abilities.

Ana Potts, a video and editing student in the program, participated as a writer, production assistant, and editor for the film, Three Less Thank You Cards. She commented about her overall experience, "It was love at first sight with the team and that's my most precious memory from this experience - the way we all bonded together after being totally strangers at first. Anas project, Three Less Thank You Cards was voted third place in the audience choice.

Jen Allen, also a video and editing student in the program, worked with Potato Duck Productions on the movie "Differences". Jen commented, "I truly enjoyed my group experience during the San Diego 48 hour film festival. I wouldn't trade this time for the world and I was so proud to be a part of this event and plan to be involved next year. Over the two day period Jen participated in various tasks including camera operator and tech back-up. Roger Cain, video and editing student, worked on the film, The Vision. Roger noted that the project provided excellent, real world experience.

Interested in learning the video production skills so you can participate in next years 48 Hour Film Project? For more information about the UC San Diego Extension | Digital Arts Center career focused programs in video production, graphic & web design, causal gaming, and mobile applications development. Please view the website at http://dac.ucsd.edu or see a short demo of the students work on YouTube.

UC San Diego Extension is a division of the universitys Extended Studies and Public Programs, offering 100+ professional and specialized certificate programs in a variety of disciplines. Nearly 50,000 adult learners attend classes each year at its facilities on the UCSD La Jolla campus, the University City Center, and the Mission Valley Center.

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The Century City Playhouse presents the CCAP Production of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf'

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 11, 2004

The Century City Playhouse presents the CCAP (Classic and Contemporary production of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf' written by Ntozoke Shange and directed by Hattie Winston. For Colored Girls... will open on Thursday, November 11 and continues through Saturday, November 20 at the Century City Playhouse, 10508 W. Pico Blvd. (at Patricia) on the Westside, across from the Rancho Park Golf Course.

For Colored Girls is a group of 20 poems for seven actors on the power of black women to survive in the face of despair and pain. It ran for seven months Off-Broadway in New York City, then moved to Broadway and was subsequently produced throughout the United States and on television.

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. The groundbreaking dramatic prose poem, written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world proves just as meaningful to twenty-first century audiences.

Richard Ford, Manager of the Century City Playhouse comments, "CCAP produces concert readings of important American plays, an amazing resource for LA theatre fans. These readings are a great opportunity to hear powerful plays with fantastic actors from theatre, film and television.”

For Colored Girls and the partnership with CCAP is the first in a series of productions at the Century City Playhouse that represent the move from a rental space into a small theatre with its own programming that centers around a commitment to American plays and musicals from writers with important voices, established and emerging. Next up at the Playhouse is Vox Humana Productions’ Scrooge Variations by award-winning playwright Eric R. Pfeffinger.

Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams in 1948. She graduated from Barnard College in 1970, and later earned an MA from the University of Southern California. It was there she changed her name to the Zulu “Ntozake” meaning “she who comes with her own things” and “Shange” meaning “who walks like a lion.” Her best known work, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf', was produced on Broadway and won an Obie Award in 1977 and became an international sensation. Several other plays and novels followed, including the 2004 children's book, Ellington Was Not a Street. She is a professor in the Women's Studies and African American Studies departments at the University of Florida at Gainesville.

The cast of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf' features: Hattie Winston, Jackée Harry, Iona Morris, Portia Realer, and Dawnn Lewis. (Cast is subject to change.) Written by Ntozoke Shange; Directed by Hattie Winston. Limited engagement opens Thursday, November 11, 7:30 PM at the Century City Playhouse!

Performances for For Colored Girls... will be Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays November 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, November 14 at 7:00pm. Ticket prices range from $ 15.00 - $ 20.00 (student and senior discounts are available). For tickets, call the Box Office at 310/204-4442 or visit the website http://www.centurycityplayhouse.net. Credit cards are accepted. Seating is limited.

Ample free parking is available on street and at the Rancho Park Golf Course lot located at Pico and Patricia. For on street parking, please read all parking signs carefully.

For more information or for press comps, please contact Richard Ford at 310/721-2211 or at rford@centurycityplayhouse.net.

The Century City Playhouse has been a fixture for quality theatre on the Westside for more than forty years and is now under new management. The playhouse is located at 10508 W. Pico Blvd, at the corner of Patricia and Pico, across the street from the Rancho Park Golf Course and next door to John O’Groat’s Restaurant. For further information, call (310) 204-4440. Fax number: (310) 204-2312. E-mail: info@centurycityplayhouse.net. Or visit our website at http://www.centurycityplayhouse.net.

Press Contact: Richard Ford, 310/721-2211

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