The Moving Pictures Collective of NYC, MoPictive for those in the know, is a non-profit community that works to support filmmakers in New York City. They provide a helpful environment for their members to learn new techniques, discuss resources they can use and share their work. They host monthly meetings to help these ends. Their website is http://www.movingpicturescollective.org/.

dv Depot was excited to host their April meeting, a panel of experts in various fields of digital filmmaking. The speakers included Anthony Q. Artis, (producer and author) Patrick Inhofer (color corrector and finisher), Pete Levin (audio mixer and sound designer) and Michael Vitti (shooter and editor). They talked to the audience about the realities of digital and tapeless production. The event was highly interactive, including videos from the speakers and a lot of questions from the audience. They took more than two hours of questions, trying to help people decide what equipment to use, weighing cost against artistic ambitions against network and studio requirements. The enthusiastic crowd was a mix of MoPictive members and the general public.

The dv Depot space was ideal for the event. We also lit the event and set up the audio. We shot the event, which is to be edited into a podcast (available to MoPictive members only, unfortunately). We also ended up helping the speakers. Our technicians were able to answer questions about various camera formats that the audience brought up.

You can see more pictures of the event at our Flickr site.

Sadly, Michael Vitti died a few weeks after this event. He was the founder of MoPictive and leader of the community. He was a friend of dv Depot and it was through him that we were able to host this event. There is a tribute page for him at http://www.imugonline.com/events/2009/michaelvitti.shtml. Helping people was Mike’s passion and MoPictive is the child of that passion. Nobody cared more about creating a collaborative environment in which people can share their knowledge. He was a fixture in the New York film world and he will be missed.

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