Make Your Mark - Boston

Next up.. the Avid Make Your Mark Tour!

The "Make Your Mark" tour is the first time that Avid Video, Softimage, Digidesign & M-Audio are participating in a seminar series all together. Each division was responsible for bringing in a panelist and a presenter to talk about their field of expertise.

We'll be hitting 4 cities in the next 4 weeks, starting today.. here is the schedule.

Boston - October 3, 2007 - Boston University
New York - October 13, 2007 - The Millennium Broadway Hotel
Los Angeles - October 20, 2007 - Los Angeles Film School
San Francisco - October 23, 2007 - San Francisco State University

http://makeyourmark.avid.com/

The Boston event will kick off with an interactive panel session, moderated by Scott Campbell, general manager of Broad Street Digital. The panel will cover tips and tricks for getting noticed and getting ahead in film, TV, music and 3D.

Panelists include:
- Matt Dentler, producer of the South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference;
- Debbie DeMontreux, SVP Original Productions and Development at the Independent Film Channel (IFC);
- Music Industry Talent Scout, Tim Sweeney, founder of Sweeney and Associates; and
- Mark Bourbannais, president and founder of Modus FX

INDUSTRY PRESENTERS AND BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
- Carmen Rizzo, producer-mixer-programmer and writer: "Professional Remixing and Production Techniques" and "Redefining the Studio"
- The Rondo Brothers, musicians and professional composers: "Music Creation in a Virtual Environment" and "ProTools and the Art of the Remix"
- Todd Akita, 3D technical director, PSYOP:
"How to Break Into the Post Industry"
- Dan Moses, filmmaker and producer, First Track Productions:
"Extreme Filmmaking"

I'll post more later.. time to meet up with Chinny and get the systems up and running.