Welcome
to the North Jersey Chapter of the Media Communications Association
International
Mission
and Vision
The Media Communications
Association-International (MCA-I) reaffirms our commitment to increase
awareness of mission critical functions of media communications
professionals and to support - in every stage of their career - those
engaged in the
profession. MCA-I's Strategic Plan, focusing association efforts
through 2010, comprises three key initiatives: cultivation of
partnerships; establishment of an industry university and online
library and building a voice for the industry.
These
initiatives are underway with deliverables
starting this year and a culmination to these efforts to come well
before the end of the decade. They are works in progress, and we
welcome your participation
Next
Meeting:
So.... You think our chapter meetings so far this year have
rocked?!
Wait till you check out
our February meeting!
HiDef
is Here (Now What?)
Tuesday, February 16
Are you confused by all the
different high-def formats out there today?
Do you need to switch from
standard definition? Should you?
Do your clients need
HD?
Are you confused about 1080i vs.
720p?
Are solid state formats confusing
– like SDHC, P2, Compact Flash, or SxS?
What about using a new digital still camera to shoot
video – like the Canon 5D Mark
II or 7D?
MCA-I NJ’s February meeting offers
some answers to the many questions about HD.
Our panel of expert videographers
will discuss HD camcorders and formats.
Check out lots of HD cameras like
the Panasonic AG-HPX300 & HMC150, Sony EX-1, JVC GY-HD200U and the Canon 7D.
View and
compare HD Blu-ray examples of different formats and frame rates.
Panelists and experts will be
announced shortly – check your e-mail or www.mca-inj.org for
updates.
Who should
attend: Producers, shooters, engineers and other
technically-oriented professionals who are interested in moving into the next
generation of video
Also, anyone from all aspects of visual communications interested in
our industry’s fast-approaching future
The
February meeting will be webcast (at www.mca-inj.org), but
you’ll really want to be there in person to:
appreciate the visual impact of HD
learn about it in practical situations, and
discover which version of the technology works for
you.
Where:Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison
Ave., Madison NJ 07940 Rutherford Room, in the Recreation
Building
Networking and light
refreshments begin at 6:30 PM
Program begins at 7:30 PM
Admission: MCA-I members
(any chapter): free — Visitors: $10.00 Full-Time Students and Faculty with
current ID: free
Directions: The
University’s website has directions to the Florham Park
campus: www.fdu.edu, click on “College at Florham”, then “Getting Here” By train:
NJ Transit, from Penn Station or Hoboken via
the Morris & Essex line, to Convent Station. Phone for taxis, or make
prior arrangements for pick-up.
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Previous
Meetings:
Happy
New Year!
January 2010 Meeting:
MCAI-NJ’s
Reel Slam 2010
Tuesday,
January 19, 2010
You’ve heard of poetry
slams. How about a Reel Slam?
That’s right, here’s a chance to show up to five minutes of your reel
or part of a work in progress and get feedback from your peers in the
media biz.
Plus there’s the opportunity for exposure that could
lead to
future collaborations or paying work.
And in the slamming spirit we
will vote on
“Most Awesome Reel”
and “Most Creative Reel”
at the end of the meeting.
If you have a demo reel,
short program, film segment or creative audio demo
(five minutes max)
to present, please RSVP to assure your place on the program.
All
screening copies must be on DVD or CD.
Just send an e-mail to program
chair SamLove at sam@samlove.net
He will reserve your place in the order e-mails are received.
Members
will receive priority,
but we welcome guests as well.
We will
accommodate walk-ins if time allows.
Total time of presentations and
questions/feedback will be limited to seven minutes
if we have a full
program.
The maximum program length is two hours.
This is always a popular
program so get your reservation in now and put it on your calendar.
(Because
of the collaborative nature of this meeting, this meeting was not be streamed
online)
You've
heard about these giant networking events... attended by
400 people... hosted by New Jersey's active marketing and
communications organizations... sponsored by the donations of
businesses... now find out why you should be
there.
Learn about
the organizations (left nav)
Choose one
(or more) to enrich your career
Meet people
of talent and influence in New Jersey PR, marketing, creative, media
and communications
Consider
the value our sponsors have to offer!
Our participating organizations have hundreds of
members, unique value propositions, and different perspectives and
resources. Volunteers from each organization will be at the event in
December to answer your questions about member benefits.
We look forward to meeting you!
October
Meeting:
In Tough Economic
Times, the Tough Get Branded
Learn how to set your company,
yourself and your product apart from the herd
Tuesday, October 20,
2009
6:30PM – 9:30PM
Join us in-person at:
Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Madison, NJ Recreation Building, Rutherford
Room (2nd floor)
or online via live streaming video here at: http://www.mca-inj.org
We
will be broadcasting this meeting live on the Internet beginning at 7:30PM EDT.
If you can’t join us in person, please feel free to tune in to our
webcast.
October
2008 Meeting Get
ready for the
Blu-ray Revolution!
The Program
If you are involved in DVD
production,
your world is about to change. Blu-ray has won the format war
with HD-DVD and Blu-ray players are now selling for less than $200.
At our October meeting, we
learned the current state of
the Blu-ray
industry, the exciting features Blu-ray makes possible, and the new
techniques that make Blu-ray authoring easier.
Panel
host Sam Love introduces the presenters
Featured Speakers: Our panel
discussion featured two top
industry experts who will share their insights with us and answer our
questions:
Tony
Jasionowski
Tony Jasionowski, Panasonic
Corporation
Tony is Senior Group Manager of
the
Panasonic Corporation of North America’s Technology Liaison &
Alliances Group and he brought us up to date on the Blu-ray Disc
industry. He explained how the business has changed now
that
Blu-ray has triumphed over the rival HD-DVD format.
Tony addressed where we stand now and where the industry is
going in the
future.
At Panasonic, Tony has been
responsible
for new magnetic and optical technologies, formats, product planning,
engineering and promotion. He has been actively involved in
the
DVD-Forum, since its inception. He is also involved in the Blu-ray Disc
Association (BDA), Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) and
other industry alliances.
and
Denny
Brietenfeld
Denny Breitenfeld, NetBlender
Denny give us an
insider's overview
of Blu-ray
disc authoring and the features available under the full Blu-ray
specification. He reviewed the primary differences between
“prosumer” authoring tools and professional authoring tools.
He also explained the pitfalls of preparing discs for
replication. Until
recently, Blu-ray specifications required extensive knowledge of
programming. Denny demonstrated how the authoring
process
has
been simplified and made more accessible to media producers.
Denny is the principle
developer of
DoStudio Blu-ray Disc Authoring, a complete professional Blu-ray
authoring tool that is designed specifically for DVD authors who are
making the transition to Blu-ray Disc. Missed the meeting (or not
local to North Jersey)?
Fairleigh
students assisted with the video coverage
Video coverage of
our meetings is streamed live and also archived for on-demand
viewing. You can access the stream from our
website or from here.
2008-2009 Season Kickoff Meeting
College
Students – Ready
Assets for the Professional Workplace
Tuesday,
September 16, 2008
Fairleigh Dickenson University
Madison, New Jersey
Professor
David Landau chaired a panel of
students, graduates and teachers who told us what the colleges
and universities of today are doing to produce graduates ready to hit
the ground running in the professional world of communications.
The panelists not only covered the realities
of
today’s curricula, but also explained the immediate value available to
the employer or mentor – whether the graduate is filling the
role
of intern
or employee.
They covered valuable
positions such as production assistants, editors, and grips where
graduates are ready to contribute in the real world outside academia.
Featured Speakers:
Faculty/Graduates/Studentsfrom FDU, CCM, Seton Hall and
William Paterson Universities.
Did
you miss our September meeting?
Watch
the archived recording of the live webcast here:
May 2008
Post-NAB Panel
Tuesday, May 20th,
2008
from 6:30pm-9:30pm
The Mansion
Fairleigh Dickenson University
Madison, NJ
The Program: MCA-I North Jersey’s meeting on May 20th
featured some personal takes of what went on at NAB this year.
Speakers:
Our
panel
discussion featured two speakers, each of whom viewed the show
offerings from
their own unique perspective:
Sol Comerchero, Senior Account Manager for Pro
Video from
Anton/Bauer, who also demonstrated the new Stasis Flex camera mount and
other new items from Anton/Bauer.
David Danto, Director of Global Multimedia
Engineering for
Lehman Brothers, and IMCCA’s Director of Engineering Technology. David
is
also a columnist for IMCCA, author of an online review of NAB
April 2008:
To
view an archived recording of our April meeting click
here.
Making Sense of
Web 2.0
March 2008
The
Internet Technology Express Is Rushing Forward.
Will you be left behind? Don't be!!!! Jo
Stapleton of Kinesis
Marketing spoke about “Making Sense of Web
2.0”
at The Mansion,
Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ
His workshop included discussion on:
Second
Life,
widgets/gadgets,
dashboards,
social
networking,
user-generated
content,
RSS
feeds,
podcasts,
multi-tech
environments and
mobile
content.
If you
don't understand all these
terms,
you need to view this presentation, because your audience
probably does!
Joint
Holiday Networking Event
Over 250 New Jersey Communications Professionals Celebrated the Season
Together!
Our
October 2007 meeting was:
Corporate
Production in the Pharmaceutical Industry
AND
IT SOLD
OUT!
It
was the Event
of the Fall!
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 6:30 PM
MCA-I
North Jersey
proudly
presented a second
major forum on
Corporate
Production
in the
Pharmaceutical Industry
A
panel discussion with the heads of video studios of
three major pharmaceutical corporations.
Bill VanderDecker, Merck
& Co. Inc.
Bill has
worked in the Visual Communications field at Merck
for 23 years. In his current role he is responsible for
Photographic Services, Webcasting Productions and Video Productions.
Recently restructured as a "Shared Service" function, the group's reach
is now global. Prior to Merck, he worked in a similar capacity at the BOCTechCenter
(formerly Airco). Bill has a B. S. degree from Rochester Institute of
Technology.
Ed Davenport, Hoffman LaRoche
Ed’s
44 years of experience in media began in video engineering at Fort
Monmouth, NJ, He started at Hoffmann la-Roche in 1973, and was
promoted to Director of Multimedia a few years later. He has
been responsible for designing and building entirely new major
facilities in all areas of media for at Roche’s headquarters in Nutley,
as well as overseeing thei day-to-day operation. Ed has a degree in
Management from Rutgers.
Ivan Nelson, sanofi-aventis
Ivan
is Director, Multimedia Services at sanofi-aventis, where he has worked
for the past seven years. Since starting his career as a freelance
non-linear editor 13 years ago, he has gained increasing levels of
responsibility in the corporate production setting and is now in charge
of sanofi-aventis' Internet, Intranet and Corporate Branding
activities. Ivan has a BA in Film Production from CUNY-Hunter
College.
Location:
The Mansion, FairleighDickinsonUniversity,FlorhamPark
(Madison)
Campus
Madison
Avenue (Route 124), Madison, one mile east of Convent Station.
Special
thanks to host and sponsor Prof. David Landau, FairleighDickinsonUniversity,
Dept. of Visual and Performing Arts
The
Program
New
Jerseyis home to the
headquarters of about one third
of all the major US
pharmaceutical companies. This vital and successful industry is
essential to everyone’s health, as well as to the economy of
our state, our country and the entire world. Our participating
companies are among the top 10 in the world. Each maintains an active
visual
communications presence, not just in advertising to professionals and
consumers, but on an internal level as well.
As
we did last March, we had a
“privileged” discussion among professionals. Topics
included:
departmental
organization (in-house vs. freelance)
the kind of work
done within each company
creative factors
vs. content limitations
the mix of
scripted programs to “news” events
equipment and
facilities
how changes in
the pharmaceutical industry are affecting production and corporate
communications
the current
political climate relating to the industry, and much more.
Also,
as before, our panel answered questions from the audience
– for some this was the best part of the evening!
A catered
buffet dinner was served.The
program began shortly after 7:30 and the presenters graciously stayed
around even after the meeting was over to answer questions from those
in attendance.
Did you miss October's great
meeting on Independent Filmmaking? You can watch it here. Just go to
our Video
page.
Our "Summer
Wrap Party"
was held on June 19 and featured lots of picnic food and LOTS
of
networking opportunities. Over 200 media professionals from 14 New
Jersey organizations attended.
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