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INCLUDES After BOSCPUG Social Hour at SALVATORE’S
(pizza and drinks will be served)
Easy Validated Parking via SALVATORE’S
RSVP and Complete Details Including Directions & Easy Validated Parking: http://boscpugoct22.eventbrite.com
Join the Boston Creative Pro User Group Thursday, October 22 for our next BOSCPUG – with post networking + refreshments (pizza and drinks) following at SALVATORE’S!
Get out to meet & mingle with fellow filmmakers in the Bright Family Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College – Enjoy a great night of networking, engaging screenings & conversation – swap stories and business cards, discover talent and crew for your next project – and interact with members of Boston’s Production and Post community.
Then, join us for an industry reception featuring Refreshments + Networking next door at SALVATORE’S. Grab a seat now!
Our BOSCPUG events and speakers that we invite to Boston are part of Emerson College’s Bright Lights Film Series: http://web.emerson.edu/brightlights/
FEATURED:
Behind the Scenes of ‘SOUTHPAW’ and ‘BLACK MASS’ with Sean Devereaux of ZERO VFX
(L-R) JAKE GYLLENHAAL and OONA LAURENCE star in SOUTHPAW
© 2014 The Weinstein Company. All Rights reserved. / Credit: Scott Garfield
We’re thrilled to have VFX Supervisor Sean Devereaux of ZERO VFX return to BOSCPUG to share with us how ZERO VFX supervised all aspects of the visual effects for ‘SOUTHPAW‘ and ‘BLACK MASS‘ —
BRING YOUR QUESTIONS TO CONNECT WITH SEAN!
ABOUT SEAN DEVEREAUX (VFX Supervisor, co-founder)
Sean Devereaux is a visual effects supervisor and entrepreneur who’s most recent invention, ZYNC, is now a Google company and his latest film, ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ will hit theaters September 23, 2016.
For over 16 years he’s told stories through moving pictures on over 40 feature films which include ‘American Hustle,’ ‘Transformers,’ ‘Fury,’ ‘The Equalizer‘ and ‘The Town.’ Sean has collaborated with all 6 of the major Hollywood studios and the best-known and most well-respected animation studios in the world, including Industrial Light & Magic and Pixar. In 2010, he co-found and is the creative director of ZERO, a production company and visual effects studio located in Boston, MA.
His other passion is helping artists and filmmakers harness their talents and turn their passion into work that matters. He speaks regularly and has taught thousands of artists from around the globe the art of cinematic storytelling. Sean lives with his wife Jenny and two daughters in Newton, MA.
Twitter: @filmsoup | Website: www.zerovfx.com
ABOUT ZERO VFX
ZERO VFX creates photo-real visual effects and finishing services for commercials and feature films. ZERO was built around the central tenants of executing impeccable work in the most efficient manner possible while at the same time challenging our artists to bring their unique creativity to each project. This has led ZERO to build an extremely streamlined pipeline that screens out the noise and lets the creatives be creative. Led by VFX Supervisor Sean Devereaux, ZERO’s team of artists and technicians are an assembly of talent brought together from the biggest and most innovative studios in the world. They join ZERO with an accomplished body of award-winning work including TRANSFORMERS, TRON LEGACY, CINDERELLA MAN, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PASZT, THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, SPIDER MAN, THE AVENGERS, NON-STOP and MORTDECAI to name a few.
Twitter: @zeroVFX | Website: www.zerovfx.com
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iZotope RX 5 and the Changing Face of Audio Production: Matt Hines, Product Manager, iZotope
We’re thrilled to have iZotope RX Product Manager Matt Hines join us to present the Boston premiere of the now shipping RX 5! Matt will provide an in-depth look at the importance of audio in post and how RX 5 Audio Editor as well as our Suite of products can help users ensure excellent quality.
As technology advances, so do the techniques and tools available to anyone responsible for delivering a good sounding audio mix to picture.
The RX audio editing tools, accessible from within Media Composer, Premiere Pro and Final Cut, make it possible to preserve the authenticity of an original performance without the need to reshoot or find new audio, by removing background noise, distortion, reverb, lav mic issues and other common audio problems.
Stay tuned…and bring your audio in post questions for Matt!
iZotope RX Product Manager Matt Hines
iZotope makes innovative products that inspire and enable people to be creative. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iZotope has spent over a decade developing award-winning products and audio technologies for professionals and hobbyists alike. Used by millions of people in over 50 countries, iZotope products are a core component of GRAMMY-winning music studios, Oscar and Emmy-winning film and TV post production studios, and prominent radio studios, as well as basement and bedroom studios across the globe.
Twitter: @iZotopeInc | Website: www.izotope.com
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PLUS OUR BIG DIG RAFFLE!
Featuring cool filmmaker prizes you want to use on your projects –
Stay Tuned for complete list of prizes!
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ABOUT THE BOSTON CREATIVE PRO USER GROUP 
The Boston Creative Pro User Group (BOSCPUG) is a story driven, globally connected community of ready-to-collaborate digital filmmakers and broadcast professionals focusing on the craft of Visual Storytelling and related tools for digital cinema and distribution. BOSCPUG regularly brings top industry filmmakers and creatives to Boston to share and discuss their latest work and their workflows. BOSCPUG also regularly holds affordable production and post-production workshops. BOSCPUG is a professional, creative outlet to pitch ideas for episodic content creation and to discover talent, crew and distribution for your projects.
Read about ‘American Hustle’ editor Crispin Struthers, ACE at BOSCPUG.
Read about BOSCPUG at the Emerson Film Festival.
From NewEnglandFilm.com: “Boston Creative Pro User Group Nurtures New England Filmmakers”
ABOUT THE BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM SERIES
The Bright Lights screening and talk series is sponsored by the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. The mission of the series is to provide engaging visual media related events to the Emerson College community as well as the wider Boston community. These events range from screening of student, faculty and alumni work to the work of local, national and international artists as well as demonstrations, lectures, discussions and presentations by industry professionals. Bright Lights seeks to create an environment where visual media is not only viewed and appreciated but where a dialogue is fostered and a community of media makers, academics and aficionados are engaged and supported.
All events are free and open to the public. Events take place every Tuesday and Thursday evening during the semester with the exception of occasions when the college is closed (such as holidays, spring break, inclement weather). Check out the Bright Lights Film Series now at: http://web.emerson.edu/brightlights/
ABOUT THE BRIGHT SCREENING ROOM 
BOSCPUG is proud to work with Emerson Visual and Media Arts to offer an evening of production and post-production conversation in the intimate and state of the art Bright Family 2K Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College.
Named for the family of Kevin Bright ’76, the Bright Family Screening Room seats approximately 200 people. It features the latest film and 2K digital video projection including 35mm and DCP playback. The dramatic double-height Gallery and Lobby connects to the Paramount Mainstage.
DATE: Thursday, October 22, 2015
TIMES: 7PM-9:30PM (doors open at 6:30PM)**
**Meeting begins PROMPTLY at 7PM!
VENUE:
Bright Family 2K Screening Room
The Paramount Center
559 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
DIRECTIONS:
Enter the main entrance to The Paramount Center at 559 Washington Street. Go up the elevators to the left and to the 4th floor. There will be front of house staff to greet you at the Bright Family Screening Room.
Venue Box Office: 617-824-8400
SPECIAL VALIDATED $14 FLAT RATE PARKING:
*SALVATORE’S (545 Washington Street, directly between The Paramount Center and The Boston Opera House) offers validated discount parking for a $14 flat rate between 4pm-5am at LAFAYETTE GARAGE, across the street from the restaurant and inside the Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston) – stop by before BOSCPUG at Salvatore’s for a bite to eat or coffee/drink!
Emerson also recommends to park in the Millennium Place Garage at The Ritz-Carlton Boston Common, 47 Boylston Street (617-574-7252). Note this parking is not vaildated!
MBTA:
– Orange Line: Take the Chinatown Exit
– Red Line: Take the Park Street Exit
– Green Line: Take the Boylston Street exit
MBTA info: http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/
Special thank you to the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College for hosting our 2014 BOSCPUG Meets.
Questions? Email Dan Bérubé at dberube at boscpug.org
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