PNAN Youth Arts Festival is on the lookout for the hottest
young and emerging talent (aged 16-25 in NSW) across
the fields of short film, graphic design and creative writing.
PNAN has always been about giving young creative’s the
opportunity to showcase their work and we have
assembled a prize pool with all the tools you need to make
it in the industry of your choice. PNAN is pleased to
announce the prizes for the 2009 PNAN Youth Arts
Festival competition:
Short Film Category:
• 1st place: $3,000 cash + Final Cut Pro Studio +
Screen Hub Membership + Industry Placement
• 2nd place: $1,500 cash + Metro Screen Voucher
($250.00) + Screen Hub Membership
Graphic Design Category:
• 1st place: $2,000 cash + Adobe CS3 Design
Premium + Industry Placement
• 2nd place: $1,000 cash + Metro Screen Voucher
($250.00)
Creative Writing:
• 1st place: $2,000 cash + Apple Mac Book Pro +
Industry Placement
• 2nd place: $1,000 cash + Metro Screen Voucher
($250.00)
There will also be a $500 cash prize for best integration of our signature item as judged
by NSW Health, one of our presenting partners.
Entries close 31st July. For more details visit www.pnan.com.au
Monthly Archive for June, 2009
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These are the two tools that I’m using in order to complete my sound project. It seems that both have their pros and cons in relation to what I need them to do.
Ableton is a fantastic sequencer which allows me to interface with PD fairly simply by use of a MIDI yoke. Basically MIDI yoke is a virtual MIDI driver for Windows that lets you route MIDI between applications. I was thinking of using this to pass sound that I’ve sequenced in Ableton directly through to PD when the contact mics pick up a signal.
Pro Tools is a great multitrack sound editor which allows me to create my surround ambient soundscape as well as touch up some of the recordings that I’ve done. Annoyingly Pro Tools is restricted to having an M-Box attached to the computer (which is annoying and expensive, though I suppose it’s one way to stop piracy) and also I’m not entirely sure if Pro Tools can be passed through to PD or not (I’ll have to investigate this further).
The next thing that I’m still having issues with is getting multiple inputs into a computer, since the computer generally has only 1 mic input with two channels. I’ve been researching a bit online and it seems that I would need to get a portable multitrack mixer of sorts to be able to grab four or more inputs into a device (or buy a very expensive M-Box 2 Pro that allows me up to 6 mic inputs) and some sort of DAC to input the mixer into a computer. Talking to Mat, he said that I should be able to borrow these rather than buy them (is is preferable), so I’ll look into that this coming week or so.
I left a Flash Actionscript 3 book in the labs last week. It is by author Colin Moock. If anyone found it can they please return it to the EMPA school office. This good deed will earn you lots of good Karma believe me 
Thanks, Brigid