Month: May 2013

So how’s the Cow?

USNA Out got heads up on three LGBT appointees to the Class of 2017 from three different sources. A big thanks to those USNA Out members who tipped us off.

To “welcome” the three appointees, USNA Out presented each of them a copy of Reef Points with a short recommended reading list on rates that they will need to eventually know by the end of their upcoming Plebe Summer. Just as younger siblings get the advantage of learning from their older brothers or sisters, our family of LGBT future midshipmen should have that same advantage.

So what’s best way to get up on your Plebe Rates??

OR

Perhaps we should have included a synopsis of the mutagenic effects of ultraviolet radiation.

The three candidates will all be issued their own personal copy of Reef Points 2013-2014 on I–Day. We hope that the Class of 2017 will help us “pass down” the tradition of welcoming the LGB appointees about whom we know each year before the Class of 2018 begins their first summer at USNA.

Appointees are not eligible to join USNA Out until after they have taken the Oath of Office as a Midshipman, and then, they will be without the ability to communicate until after Plebe Parent’s Weekend at the end of the summer.

Continue reading “[members] 5/28/2013 – USNA Out Welcomes the Class of 2017”

Here’s the list of some of what we still need to do: Complete/polish this page including: The “why this is a cool project” write up Complete instructions for file transfer Pick the right URL for this page. Right now it is http://usnaout.org/movie. That OK? more creative one? Set up a dropbox or google drive to transfer these potential big (60GB) files to us Write the newsletter teaser

Why this is a really cool project

or a better description to get people excited to participate

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How To Make Your Movie Shots

Submitting your clip is easy and should take you about 12-15 minutes total.
Instruction checkoff sheet right here on this page. You can download and then printout the “checkoff list” also listed below.

Once you’ve filmed your clip, send it to us using the instructions below.

Other things to make your submission awesome

Why an iPhone 5 vs iPhone 4?

A iPhone5 wil give us a better clip than will an iPhone4, but if you only have access to the iPhone4 , that will work. Here’s a comparison on how different the two cameras will render a movie:

Using an iPhone5 and setting your distance to the camera using the standard issue ear bud set, your distance from the camera and head size will be uniform with most others.

If you don’t have access to an iPhone 5, you will appear larger than others, and the image size will be up-converted to 1080, so you won’t appear quite as crisp. IT IS TOTALLY OK TO USE THE iPHONE 4 IF YOU DON”T HAVE ACCESS TO THE iPHONE 5.

Wardrobe Considerations

A few wardrobe suggestions to prevent problems with your iPhone camera:

• USNA Spirit gear is a great choice!
• Avoid bright white shirts — or white collars, white will overdrive the camera and wash out the rest of the picture (you).
• No thin stripes or small checkered patterns — they will cause zebra artifacts. Caution: subtle fabric or weave patters can have the same effect! We’ve lost some really good interviews because of knit patterns causing the pixels to go crazy!
• Bright reds will bleed over into the adjacent colors.
• Then there are legal hangups. Please no visible logos, otherwise we will need to obscure the logo so it cannot be distinguished, involving “masking” and “filtering” your image, doable, but a tedious tasks that will delay the final editing of our film.
• Please do wear what you are comfortable wearing in your everyday setting at work.

Makeup?

Yes, you wouldn’t want to be shiny or slimy! But you don’t need a makeup artist. The iPhone takes great shots and is in HD. Consider the $4.99 investment in a corn starch powder puff at the NEX, Target or your corner drug store that somewhat matches your skin tone. You want to look good!

When you are done transfer your movie clip to us

Macs

If your movie fils is less than ~@)MB, you can just email it to movie@usnaout.org. But it it probably going to be larger than that.

We need to figure out how to do this using google drive or another source to upload huge files. NOT FTP as that will not be user friendly for about 98% of our members

PC’s

I’ll really need help here…. like how do you transfer an iPhone movie file via PC? iTunes, I suspect somehow.
Continue reading “The Movie Project that Needs a Title”