9.30AM DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ben Allan, ACS
Take your camera work to the next level with an intensive masterclass from digital cinematographer Ben Allan, who operates at the cutting edge of the digital revolution, working with HD, DV and other digital formats as well as 16mm/35mm film. He shows you how to achieve the elusive film look with digital cinematography, as well as a focus on the essentials to help you shoot like the pros.

11.30AM BREAK

12.00PM AUDIO FOR VIDEO
James Nowiczewski
Learn the secret to professional-sound productions with this expert session on optimising your audio techniques. Canvassing the full spectrum of audio fundamentals, James will give expert advice on better techniques for location audio recording as well as the fundamentals of mixing sound tracks in your NLE system. Be guided through the essentials of unlocking the audio power in a digital editor.

1.00PM LUNCH BREAK
VISIT THE EXHIBITION

2.00PM EDITING WORKSHOP
Evan Butson, The Difference Engine
A contributing editor to Digital Media World magazine, Evan Butson has handled just about every non-linear digital editing system you can name in his professional career producing video for Australian corporate and broadcast video clients. Move beyond the everyday with a masterclass that will move your desktop creativity to the next level.

3.00PM CASE STUDY: THE DIGITAL DOCUMENTARY
Mike & Corey Piper, Piper Films
The father-and-son team that run documentary production company Piper Films share the digital technology and techniques they have employed to create their long list of unique and award-winning films, including Opal Fever, recently shown on ABC TV. This four-part series about Australian opal miners was shot on DVCAM and edited entirely using Final Cut Pro. Last year, Opal Fever received four Australian Cinematographers Society Gold Awards for photography, the first time in the 34-year history of the awards that a Gold Award has been awarded to each episode of a series.

3.45PM POWERHOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Peter Corbett, Principal, Powerhouse Productions
Award-winning video producer Peter Corbett shares his tips designed to make your next production stand out from the pack, illustrated by case studies and examples from his extensive body of broadcast, corporate and training productions for Australian and international clients. Learn how Corbett has fine-tuned his SDI Windows-based Premiere Pro editing set-up to deliver optimum professional results, along with expert advice on all the important elements of a successful production, from shooting and editing your material to colour grading and authoring the DVD.

4.30PM CASE STUDY: CONTACT
Matthew Reilly, Che Baker & Gavin Tyrell

After attending his first Digital Media Festival in 2004, Matthew now intends this year to produce and direct a feature film version of his first novel, Contest. To do this -- and to establish his directing credentials in Hollywood -- he has shot a 15-minute 'pilot' of the movie in high definition video (being the first 15 minutes of the final film). He plans to take this pilot to the US in mid-June in the hope of securing a distribution deal with a studio. Then he intends to return to Australia and make the rest of the film here.
At 30, Matthew Reilly is the international bestselling author of six novels, Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow and Hover Car Racer. His books are published in 18 languages and he has sold over 2 million books worldwide. In 2002, the movie rights to his novel, Ice Station, were optioned by Paramount Pictures, while last year, Walt Disney Pictures picked up Hover Car Racer while the book was still in manuscript form. He was recently named in BRW Magazine's Top 50 Entertainers List.
Contest is about a man who is brought to the New York State Library, told that all the doors and windows have been electronically sealed, and that placed inside the building with him are... six lethal aliens. He has been chosen to represent humanity in a contest held once every 1,000 years. The rules are simple: seven contestants enter, but only one leaves. Fast, scary and thrilling, with no less than eight different alien species in it, Contest is a highly commercial, action-packed sci-fi thriller.

7.00PM DIGITAL VIDEO AWARDS & SCREENINGS 

9.30AM DIRECTING
Aleksi Vellis
Award-winning Australian director Aleksi Vellis takes you through the technical and creative challenges involved in directing a script. Aleksi's work is distinguished by his ability to work with both dramatic and comic material.

10.30AM STORAGE & COMPRESSION
Michael Borthwick Consulting
Understanding the complexities of digital video compression is mandatory for the modern video professional. One of Australia's leading consultants to government and industry today, Michael Borthwick, will provide an essential overview of digital video concepts that influence our understanding of everything from video recording formats to DVD authoring and Web-based video. He will focus on the different compression formats including MPEG4 while explaining their impact on production,post-production and storage requirements.

11.30AM BREAK

12.00PM EDITING MASTERCLASS
Rochelle Oshlack
Drawing on the case study of the knot at home project, an 8 part TV series screened later this year, which amassed 500 hours of MiniDV footage having been shot over four years across every state in Australia. Rochelle Oshlack will present simple and clear ways to edit any program from the moment the software has been loaded right up until the color grade, final mix and output to tape. Rochelle will draw on her experiences on big budget features such as ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge’ and equally from smaller projects shot on MiniDV, which are never any easier to edit.

1.00PM LUNCH BREAK
VISIT THE EXHIBITION

2.00PM HDV EDITING WORKSHOP
Evan Butson, The Difference Engine
Evaluate strategies for migrating your editing/post-production workflow to working with HDV format high definition. Learn the basics of hardware requirements for HDV editing versus SD DV, and gain invaluable insights in to the practicalities of editing, mastering and output.

3.00PM DVD PRODUCTION
Ché Baker, DVAustralia
A practical guide to professional DVD content creation, including basic authoring and interactivity, asset management and media encoding. Emerge with an understanding of the evolution of the DVD standard and an appreciation of emerging technologies. This presentation will look at the practical uses of DVD for the small production house, as well as the tools available today to make this technology accessible.

4.00PM HD FILMMAKING: WOLF CREEK & FRAMES
Kent Smith, ACS, cinematographer & Marty Pepper, Creative Director, Kojo Group 
Learn how Oasis Post has perfected a HD digital technique for film production, with an in-depth examination of the production of Wolf Creek and Frames, two of the first Australian film projects originated entirely in HD. Wolf Creek, shot digitally in HD, is one of the most eagerly anticipated Australian films of 2005. Described as one of the best and freshest horror films in recent memory, the independent feature has been picked up by US film studio Miramax and is to be released globally in cinemas later this year.  Marty spent four months working on Wolf Creek and single-handedly completed the HD conform, colour grade, 80 VFX sequences and supervised the film record by Atlab. The short film Frames won Kent Smith, ACS Judges' Best Entry in this year's ACS Awards for Cinematography.

Rochelle Oshlack, Film Editor

Rochelle’s been in postproduction for film and television for over seventeen years. Her credits include fifteen feature films, numerous documentaries, television drama series, and several award winning short films. For over a year, Rochelle worked in The United States on the larger budget and more commercial, feature length dramas, such as “Noah's Ark” starring Jon Voight, as VFX editor and Baz Luhrman’s “Romeo & Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge”, as first assistant editor.

Rochelle edited “The Media Project” a politically charged no budget doco/drama. The Media Project is expose on media coverage of the first Gulf War, directed by the highly acclaimed British Director Peter Watkins. Rochelle has recently completed editing Big hArt’s “Knot at Home Project” an 8 part Television Series for SBS.  Shot over four years, having collected in excess of 500 hours of Mini DV footage. The first episode of Penny Chapman’s (Brides of Christ) most recent TV Series; R.A.N.Remote Area Nurse was edited by Rochelle Oshlack.

Ben Allan, ACS
Ben Allan received his ACS accreditation in 2002 at the age of just 27. Recent credits as a director of photography (DOP) include the IMAX documentary Knights Of The Sea following the adventures of the America's Cup, the feature films Invisible Killers and Little Lies and the short film Desperate Deeds.

Matthew Reilly
Matthew Reilly, born July 2nd, 1974, is an Australian thriller writer. While attending the University of New South Wales, he wrote his first book Contest in 1994. It was rejected by every major publishing company in Sydney, which drove Reilly to self-publish 1,000 copies. One copy was read by an editor at Pan MacMillan, who immediately signed Reilly up to write Ice Station, which became an international best-seller. In the years to come, he wrote Temple, Area 7, and Scarecrow , which have since been published in over fifteen countries, including Australia, the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, South Africa, Japan and China. Reilly is well known for his style of writing, which, unlike any other before it, focuses entirely on Hollywood-style action scenes, relegating drama and character development to second priority. Many critics condemn this, and point out that Reilly unashamedly writes his books to read like movies; however, Reilly's fans argue that his writing style is what makes the books unique and exciting. Reilly's main influences include Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. His latest work is an eight part online novel called Hover Car Racer , aimed at a younger audience than his previous books. It has since been released as a published novel.
www.matthewreilly.com

Ché Baker
After a lengthy career working in Australia and the US as an editor, DVD Author and TV commercial director, including stints on productions such as Dawson¹s Creek, Ché Baker began his digital video production and training company DVAustralia. Ché specialises in new technologies and set up DVAustralia to provide a training and troubleshooting service to the new wave of digital video editors and DVD producers.
www.dvaustralia.tv

Evan Butson
Evan started in the industry working for a computer games company then moved on to creating educational programs, after which he was freelance Assistant Editor for several years. He then spent time handling sales for a range of professional video companies, including Avid, Matrox, D-Vision, Speed Razor and DPS, before starting his own company The Difference Engine, a Melbourne-based media solutions company working within the television, corporate and educational sector. One of his first clients was the Branding Division of BHP Billiton, and some of his recent projects have included TVCs for Honda, Ford and Mitsubishi. Each month he reviews the latest in digital video hardware and software for Digital Media World magazine.

Peter Corbett, Principal, Powerhouse Productions
Peter Corbett is a multi-talented video producer, cameraman and DVD/digital video professional who formed his multi award-winning video and media company, Powerhouse Productions (www.php.com.au), in 1986. The company started in Australia as a producer of corporate and industrial videos, and has expanded into documentary, multimedia and television production. Since 1986, Powerhouse has won over 45 international awards for media production. Some of the more recent awards include two Australian Cinematographers Society Gold Medals in 2004 for Best Corporate Video and Best Training & Educational Video. As well as working on 17 feature films as a Production Assistant & Assistant Director, Peter has been responsible for documentaries screened locally on SBS-TV and the Nine Network.

Mike Piper, Film Producer/Director, Piper Films
Mike Piper began his lengthy career in broadcasting and film at Radio 5DN in Adelaide. After 10 years with the ABC Film Department, where he worked in current affairs, news and education programming he moved on to pursue an interest in producing and directing his own films as an independent producer. Since then he has produced a number of one-hour and half-hour documentary films and television specials which have been sold to the ABC and SBS in Australia and distributed throughout the world. Some of these titles include Echidna: The Survivor, Opal Fever, Paul Davies: The Big Questions & More Big Questions, Red Crabs Crazy Ants and Seeking Asylum.

Corey Piper, cinematographer/director, Piper Films
The younger half of the father-son team at South Australia’s Piper Films, Corey Piper is an accomplished digital filmmaker who directing credits that include Opal Fever, a television series about the obsession that leads to opal fever and the dramas that arise out of that obsession, as well as Running On Sunshine, about the World Solar Challenge, the world's premiere solar car race, filmed in Germany, UK, Japan and Australia.

Aleksi Vellis
Aleksi's third feature film, The Wogboy is now one of the five highest grossing Australian films of all time. Listed in the Encore Directory's Top 20 list of Australian Directors working globally, Aleksi has also produced a raft of high profile TVCs such as the Twelve Days of Christmas campaign for the Transport Accident Commission (a Gold winner at New York's prestigious One Show). Aleksi studied Drama and English Literature at the University Of Melbourne before completing the Swinburne film school's (now VCA) 3 year directing course. Nirvana Street Murder, his gritty low budget first feature, was a critical and commercial success and
Since then he has directed two more feature films, music videos, sitcoms, short films, documentaries, TV dramas and TVCs.

Michael Borthwick
Michael Borthwick provides video technology consulting and training to the cultural and education sector in Australia and internationally. He has detailed system specifications and workflows for media production, distribution, display and streaming systems at some of Australia’s major museums and cultural institutions, including development of the Concept Design for streaming of upwards of 30 channels of MPEG-2 video and 60 channels of MPEG-4 video to a variety of end-point devices within ACMI’s Federation Square site in Melbourne. www.michaelborthwick.com.au

Kent Smith, ACS, Director of Photography/Company Director, Kojo Group
Kent is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading HD cinematographers. He formed his own production company in 1984, Kojo Productions, which has grown significantly and is now one of the largest and diverse independent film and video production houses in Australia. Kent, has won acclaim for his work over the years, including an American TV Award for the Best Educational Documentary, best overall entry in 2002 and 2004 SA/WA ACS awards, and a Golden Tripod award in the 2002 National Australian Cinematographers Society's Awards. http://www.kojogroup.com

Marty Pepper, Creative Director, Kojo Group
Marty Pepper has worked in Film Production & Post Production for over 20 years, cutting his teeth on National & International TVC Campaigns with Pepper Studios for 14 years. In July 1998 he started working out of Oasis Post as Freelance flame artist and is now a Partner in Kojo Group as Creative Director. He is regarded as one of Australia's most knowledgeable and experienced compositors.

James Nowiczewski
James Nowiczewski is a partner in Groovetown Studios which provides professional audio services for feature films, advertising campaigns and music recording.

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