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Here's a chance that shouldn't be missed for a number of reasons. The best of them is that it promotes living together in diversity. Check out the deadline and contact them if you have any questions. Steve
We are excited to tell you about the One Chicago, One Nation online film contest , which is open to submissions now through April 23, 2010. As someone who has been involved in One Nation initiatives in the past, we thought youd like to know about our next big contest! Entrants have the opportunity to win a $20,000 Grand Prize, as well as thousands of dollars in other prizes.
We’re looking for short videos (five minutes or less) that tell stories of how people of diverse backgrounds in Chicago work together for the greater good. It could be the story of a group of Jewish high school students and their American Muslim counterparts who are combining forces to reduce lead levels in their neighborhood. Or a group comprised of Baptists, Catholics, and Buddhists creating an organic community garden in the middle of Chicago. Or medical professionals of different faiths and backgrounds who gather once a month to offer free services to underserved communities. We want to capture the spirit of diversity and cooperation in Chicago, one story at a time.
Filmmakers can submit videos in one of six categories:
• Comedy
• Drama
• Documentary
• Music Video/Spoken Word/Animation
• Under 60 Seconds
• Mobile digital media (phones, mp3s, iPods, Flip)
Finalists will be determined by online voting and those entries will be judged by a panel of celebrity judges, including entertainer and humanitarian Harry Belafonte, WBEZ radio host Steve Edwards, and many more.
Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested in the One Chicago, One Nation Online Film Contest. To help make the contest accessible, we are offering free video training on the north and south sides of Chicago - just click here to apply: http://onechicago-onenation.org/free-film-training/
Check out www.linktv.org/onechicago for more details on the contest and how to submit an entry, how to view and vote, and how to comment on the films. Thanks, and happy filming!
Best regards,
Eboo Patel Signature
Eboo Patel
Founder and Executive Director
Interfaith Youth Core
If you want to add audio to your website, or learn how to do audio for the radio, this training session will help you get there. The Society of
Professional Journalists has provided a nationally accomplished journalist who will be our trainer. Victoria Lim is an award-winning reporter for a Tampa, Fla. TV station who works as well for the website ran by her station and the Tampa Tribune. The session will be held from 9 am to noon on Saturday, February 20, at WBEZ on Navy Pier in Downtown Chicago. And because space is limited, please apply as soon as possible.
What specifically will you learn from this session?
Helping you add compelling sound to your stories online is the goal of this workshop. Whether it’s a standalone audio clip or a fully-produced audio slide show, you’ll learn how to gather crisp interviews and natural sound, how to use a simple audio editing program and how to combine still pictures and sound to do effective online storytelling.
Contact me - Stephen Franklin, steve@newstips.org or 312
312 369 7782 or 773 595 8667.
What skills will you learn from this session?
With the use of the right tools and techniques, journalists can now reach anywhere on the planet to talk to a source, interview a subject or collaborate with a fellow reporter. In this session, participants will hear about the latest tools being used to break stories and communicate with readers. Start with Twitter, then go beyond the basics to learn some unwritten rules, some etiquette and new tools for speaking with people anywhere. Appropriate for all levels, this session includes a couple exercises and realtime examples.
They are located at 1048 Lake Street, Suite 300 Oak Park, Illinois 60301-1102
Please let contact me so I can make sure there is room for everyone. Steve Franklin - steve@newstips.org or at our office- 312 369 6400
So, too, this is an excellent opportunity and the deadline to apply has been moved back to Jan. 29 New America Media is calling for applications from ethnic media reporters and freelance journalists for its 2010 Fellowship, "Ethnic Elders Today and Tomorrow," underwritten by a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies.
By 2030, the number of elders in America will double, with a growing percentage expected to be ethnic elders. While America's mainstream media has largely ignored this demographic tsunami, ethnic-media communities remain under-informed about the wide-ranging challenges of aging of color in America. From health care disparities and income struggles to seniors' unsung community contributions as mentors and heritage keepers, generational coverage is too often missing from, yet crucial to the conversation about how to prepare for the coming longevity revolution.
Selected fellows will research a story or a series of their design, documenting and explaining the pressing issues ethnic elders in their respective community are facing.
Each fellow will submit a proposal outlining a major article or series of stories, she or he intends to research and write, as well as a signed agreement by his or her publisher/producer to run the story or stories in their ethnic media outlet.
In addition, fellows will participate in a MANDATORY two-day workshop on key social, politics and policy issues, hosted by New America Media in Washington, D.C., in late February 2010, where they will meet national policy-makers, leading journalists on the generational or retirement beat, policy advocates and researchers. NAM will disseminate stories produced by the fellows to ethnic and mainstream media partners and nonprofit collaborators through our news wire.
All stories must be edited and approved by NAM's Ethnic Elders Editor before publication and projects must be completed by June 1, 2010.
Fellows will receive a $2,500 stipend in two increments ($1,000 at the Washington, D.C. workshop and $1,500 once the story or series has been published or aired). NAM will arrange all flights and hotel bookings for the Washington workshop, and fellows will be reimbursed for all qualifying travel expenses (i.e. cab fares and train/bus tickets).
For more information contact NAM Ethnic Elders Editor Paul Kleyman at pkleyman@newamericamedia.org or call him at 415-503-4170, ext. 133.
Headline Club Opens Categories for non-English news mediaFor the first time the Chicago Headline club will give away awards to journalists who do their work in languages other than English. This is a great chance for the immigrant news media to win respect for its work. There's a January deadline so plan ahead. Read the application, linked to here, and if you have any questions let me know. You do not have to translate your work. They will take care of that.
here is the link to their page-open the application on the page.
http://tinyurl.com/yb7a4hx
WBEZ is looking for staff for its new bureau in Rogers Park - covering the Rogers Park-Devon-Albany Park communities - and it is welcoming applications from ethnic journalists. One of the goals of the bureau will be covering the immigrants communities in this part of Chicago. To apply contact Julia McEvoy, 312 948 4746 or jmcevoy@chicagopublicradio.org
The Society for Professional Journalists is honoring reporting in 2009 that explores and exposes a topic critical to immigrant or ethnic communities in the U.S. The competition is open to news outlets, journalists, community and issue advocacy groups and others concerned with ethnic and immigrant issues. It is open for print or broadcast reporting. It also does not have to be English, but you need to send an English translation with your submission. The deadline is Feb. 12, 2010
Contact-Lauren Rochester, Society of Professional Journalists, 317-927-8000, awards@spj.org, spj.org/awards.asp
Here's an event on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, at Columbia College Chicago, Journalism Department
33 E Congress, 2nd floor
It is sponsored by the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists:
9:30 a.m. Registration
Orange Hallway
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion – Where do Latinos fit in the new media landscape?
Room 219
Moderator: Tony Olivo, Chicago Tribune
Panelists:
Teresa Puente, Chicanisima (Chicago Now) and latina-voices.com
Fernando Diaz, community manager, news and opinion, Chicago Now
Fabiola Pamoreda, La Raza
Other panelists to be confirmed
The panel is free and open to all Latino journalists, journalism students and community members.
There is a charge for lunch and the afternoon training. $15 students, $40 professionals.
12 – 12:45 LUNCH
WORKSHOPS 12:45 to 2:15
Blogging I
Learn the basics of how to create and post on a blog. What is blogging? Why create a blog? You will create a blog yourself in this hands-on session.
Trainer: Fernando Diaz, community manager, news and opinion, Chicago Now
Room 213
OR
How do you use Social Media tools to get the story?
Facebook and Twitter.
Room 211
Trainer: James Janega, Chicago Tribune reporter
2:15 to 2:30 BREAK
2:30 to 4:00
Blogging II
How do you manage and promote a blog?
SEO, traffic, cross-posting
Trainer: Fernando Diaz, community manager, news and opinion, Chicago Now
213
OR
Soundslides
How do you build a Soundslide using still photos?
Tips for framing and uploading photos
Trainers: Chicago Tribune photographers
The Latino news media and Community
On this Saturday, Oct. 17, there will be conference on the role of the Latino news media and its relationship to its community. It starts
at 11 a.m. at the Biblioteca Rudy Lozano, 1805 S. Loomis St. Some of the speakers include Antonio Zavala, the Chicago correspondent
for EFE and Viviana Avila, television reporter with Sin Censura.
Why the 2010 Census matters to immigrant and minority communities
There will be briefing by U.S. Census officials for the ethnic news media at 10:30 Thursday Oct. 22 on the 2010 Census. It will be
held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 152 E. Wacker Drive. The meeting is co-sponsored by New America Media, the nation's largest voice
for the ethnic news media.
Finding a future with the ethnic news media
We are holding a job fair for all college students to learn about internships, freelancing and possibly a career with the ethnic news
media. The meeting is from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at the eighth floor at 1104 S. Wabash on the campus of Columbia
College. Steve Franklin (me), the ethnic news media director for the Community Media Workshop and Teresa Puenta of Columbia College
will moderate the discussion of journalists and editors who now work for ethnic TV, radio and print in the Chicago area.
The links between Latino community groups and the Latino news media.
And finally the Community Media Workshop & Radio Arte 90.5 FM are presenting Nuestros Medios, A Latino Media Mee & Greet. It
will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 17 - 3 to 5 p.m., at the National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago.
Hear from representatives of Latino media outlets as they address the challenges they face in covering their communities and highlight
the opportunities that exist to improve coverage in today's changing media landscape.
The panelists include: Silvia Rivera, WRTE 90.5FM; Fabiola Pomerada, La Raza Newspaper, Tony Martinez, Telemundo, Teresa Puente,
Chicanísima (Chicago Now Blog), Zeke Montes, Teleguía/ National Association of Hispanic Publications
And the moderator is Steve Franklin (me again!)
FREE but please RSVP for this event!
http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1253&EID=5687
Workshop on Census and the government’s advertising for it
Why The Census is an important story for the ethnic news media
Monday, Sept. 21 at the India Tribune, 3302 West Peterson, Chicago
The government deadline for applications for advertisements for its campaign to promote the Census is Oct. 15 so there’s not much time to apply.
Who can apply?
Print, radio, television or online news outlets that can show they reach audiences. Non-profits are also eligible.
Click here for the government application
http://tinyurl.com/lh2a5k
For the immigrant and minority news media there are a number of stories to tell, including the controversies raised about the effort to reach communities that have not been counted well in the past.
Here are some ties to those stories:
Click here for background on concern about previous census efforts and sample stories from the Asian American Justice Center:
http://tinyurl.com/kk6dw4
And here is a column from the Baltimore Times that says not enough federal money is going towards advertising in black print media:
http://tinyurl.com/mwdjkl
New America Media Stimulus Watch Fellowships for Ethnic Media Journalists
Application Due: October 1, 2009
New America Media, Fellowship Application, Aaron Glantz, Stimulus Editor, Posted: Aug 10, 2009
New America Media is calling for applications from ethnic media reporters and freelance journalists for its 2009 Stimulus Watch Fellowship. The fellows will research a story or a series of their design, documenting and explaining the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on the ethnic community served by their publication. The Fellowship is underwritten by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Each fellow will submit a proposal outlining an investigative story, or series of stories, she or he intends to research and write, as well as a signed agreement by his or her publisher/producer to run the story or stories in their ethnic media outlet.
In addition, fellows will participate in a MANDATORY two-day politics and policy workshop hosted by New America Media and Investigative Reporters and Editors in Washington, D.C. November 12-13, where they will meet national policy-makers, leading investigative and business journalists, policy advocates, and researchers. NAM will disseminate stories produced by the fellows to ethnic and mainstream media partners and nonprofit collaborators through our news wire.
All stories must be edited and approved by NAM’s Stimulus Editor before publication and projects must be completed by February 15, 2010.
Fellows will receive a $3,500 stipend in two increments ($1,000 at the Washington, D.C. workshop and $2,500 once the story or series has been published or aired). NAM will arrange all flights and hotel bookings for the Washington workshop, and fellows will be reimbursed for all qualifying travel expenses (i.e. cab fares and train/bus tickets).
For more information contact NAM Stimulus Editor Aaron Glantz at aglantz@newamericamedia.org or call him at 415-503-4170
Reminder!!!
DEADLINE: TODAY, August 28, 2009
When: September 25-26, 2009
Where: Chicago, Illinois
Who: Illinois Journalists
Applications are now being accepted from Illinois journalists to attend an advanced Chicago seminar on covering criminal justice policy as special Reporting Fellows. The seminar, is called "The Future of Sentencing, Corrections and Crime Reduction in Illinois: A Conversation between Journalists, Policy Makers and Criminal Justice Professionals. For more information about the seminar, please visit the Upcoming Events section of our website.
Application: Prospective fellows must submit a brief letter detailing their professional background and special interest in the criminal justice, policy-making or state political beats (please include recent or planned stories in those or related areas), and a short supporting letter from an editor or professional reference.
For more information about the Center on Media, Crime and Justice and previous advanced reporting seminars on criminal justice, please visit: www.jjay.cuny.edu/cmcj
Video Workshop,
Tuesday, August 25
Do you want to give your webpage a boost?
Are you looking for ways to add new advertising? Are you trying to reach people who want more from your newspapers.
Well, adding video might be an answer. And if you've already started, do you have the work down?
Because so many papers are moving to add video, we're holding a workshop from 10 a.m. until noon this Tuesday, August. 25
Contact me - Steve Franklin - if you want to join in. And if you have questions about shooting, send them to me and we'll make sure to answer them. We have limited space, so let me know if you want to take part.
You can reach me at steve@newstips.org or at 773 595-8667.
Criminal Justice Reporting Workshop in Chicago.
Here's a good chance to develop sources and insights to crime and dealing with it in Illinois. A two-day conference for the news media, Sept. 25-26. It is sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, DePaul University College of Law, and the John Howard Association of Illinois, among others.
But you need to apply for a fellowship. Click on this for more information.
http://tinyurl.com/nzp2no
DEADLINE: October 1, 2009
Who: Ethnic Media Reporters and Freelance Journalists
Fellows will research a story or a series of their design, documenting and explaining the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on the ethnic community served by their publication. Fellows will receive a $3,500 stipend in two increments ($1,000 at the Washington, D.C. workshop and $2,500 once the story or series has been published or aired).
Each fellow will submit a proposal outlining an investigative story, or series of stories, she or he intends to research and write, as well as a signed agreement by his or her publisher/producer to run the story or stories in their ethnic media outlet.
Fellows will also participate in a mandatory two-day politics and policy workshop hosted by New America Media and Investigative Reporters and Editors in Washington, D.C. November 12-13, where they will meet national policy-makers, leading investigative and business journalists, policy advocates, and researchers. NAM will disseminate stories produced by the fellows to ethnic and mainstream media partners and nonprofit collaborators through our news wire.
For full description of the fellowship and the application, please click here. To reach the NAM Stimulus Editor Aaron Glantz at aglantz@newamericamedia.org or call him at 415-503-4170.
THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS
What fate awaits the U.S. news media? How will the changes we are seeing today effect the First Ammendment, freedom of the press, access to critical information.
The Freedom Museum and the School of Journalism of Columbia College will are holding a discussion on August 13 at Columbia College. The hour and half event will begin at 6 p.m. in Room 19 at 33 E. Congress Parkway. David Hiller, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, and new president and CEO of the McCormick Foundation will begin the evening's discussion.
PANEL TO DISCUSS THE ROLE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN IMMIGRANTS IN
ILLINOIS
Pollster Sergio Bendixen will join dozens of women, advocates and
leaders to analyze the positive impact of the "Stewards of the 21st
Century Family" in today's society
WHAT: Not only has there been a surge in female immigrants, but they are shouldering many more roles. They are the ones more likely to push for U.S. citizenship. And they are more likely partners here in guiding their families, a shift for many. But many also suffer from low wage jobs and jobs that do not reflect their training, discrimination's
painful sting, and a crippling lack of English skills.
A recently completed one of a kind study by pollster Sergio Bendixen highlights why women immigrants emigrate and how they have become the "Stewards of the 21st Century Family," in order to maintain their families and provide a better future for their children. Panelists will focus the discussion in their own stories of struggle and success and the common drive for family stability while adjusting to their "new home."
Participants will include Latino, African, Chinese, Arab and Korean women. They will share their stories about the struggle in their own
communities to solve issues amid unjust immigration policies and a severe lack of resources to help them integrate themselves and their families into our society.
WHEN: Thursday, July 16, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: ICIRR Conference Room, 55 E. Jackson Blvd. Suite 2075, Chicago,
IL
WHO: Maria Pesqueira from Mujeres Latinas en Accion, Itedal Shalabi from the Arab American Family Services, Younhee Harm from the Korean American Community Services, Esther Wong from the Chinese American Service League, Tuyet Le from the Asian American Institute, Margaret King from Woman for African Development Economic Recovery Institute, Inc., Sergio Bendixen one of the nation's leading experts on Latino public opinion,
Sandy Close of New America Media, and Steve Franklin from the Community Media Workshop.
GRUPO PARA DISCUTIR EL ROL Y LAS APORTACIONES DE LAS MUJERES INMIGRANTES EN ILLINOIS
Press conference on female immigrants, July 16th
El investigador Sergio Bendixen se unirá a decenas de mujeres, defensores y líderes, para analizar el impacto positivo de las “Salvaguardas de las familias del siglo XXI” en la sociedad actual
CUANDO: Jueves, 16 de julio de 2009
10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
DONDE: ICIRR
55 E. Jackson Blvd. Suite 2075
Chicago, IL
USC Annenberg School of Journalism is calling for entries for its new Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism , which offers competitive grants of between $2,500 and $10,000 for noteworthy journalism projects on community health policy. As many as 10 print, broadcast and new media journalists will receive awards annually. Open to both newsroom staffers and freelancers, the grants support ambitious investigative or explanatory journalism projects. Multimedia reporting proposals and joint projects between mainstream and ethnic/community media are encouraged.
The deadline to apply for this year`s grants is July 22. For more information and an application, visit www.ReportingonHealth.org , e-mail Martha Shirk at cahealth@usc.edu or call (213) 437-4439.
Do want a measure of a city, a nation, a people through countless eyes and ears working at one place - a place that became history itself? The Chicago Defender has turned over its archives to the Chicago Public Library. Read the story here from the New York Times. But let it remind you what the Defender meant over the years.
http://tinyurl.com/oqaytq
A great tragedy is the number of people who want to learn English in Illinois but there are not enough classes for them. Read this report from the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights:
http://icirr.org/en/nai
Here is a valuable report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on Mexican Immigration in the Midwest:
http://tinyurl.com/c4ef9h
As the economy crumbles, poverty has grown in Chicago and the state. Read this report by the Heartland Alliance:
http://www.heartlandalliance.org/povertyreport/2009-report-poverty.html
If you are thinking flowers, give a gift too to the women who work in the flower houses. Look for those that pay a fair wage to the female workers in Columbia and Ecuador where most of our flowers come from. An effort to help these women has been led by a Chicago-based U.S. LEAP. Their website explains:
http://www.usleap.org/
http://tinyurl.com/d3myk4
Take a look at the interesting agenda for the New York City grass roots media gathering, May 30:
http://nycgrassrootsmedia.org/2009/schedule
Amelia – Blu-ray Disc Review
February 23, 2010 – 8:52 AM --- by: Danielle ByingtonTags: Aaron Abrams, Amelia Earhart, Christopher Eccleston, Digital Copy, Ewan McGregor, FOX, Hilary Swank, Joe Anderson, Mia Wasikowska, Mira Nair, Richard Gere
has an average rating of 5.7 on IMDb
1080p in AVC MPEG-4 on a 50gb disc
DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio
are decent with a Digital Copy
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– 2009
– 111 minutes
– FOX
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This uses 29.2GB for the movie out of 41.9GB total.
Overall Verdict – Good Film / Great Presentation
Buy it for $24.99 @ Amazon.com
— Review written by: Danielle Byington —
Trailer:
The Movie Itself is a biographical film about Amelia Earhart, and is directed by Mira Nair, with the writing credits of Ronald Bass & Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the biographical book “East To The Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart” by Susan Butler, as well as the biographical book “The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart” by Mary S. Lovell.
The movie begins at the point in Amelia’s (Hilary Swank) life that she applies for the task of being the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic. Meeting and greeting with publicist George Putnam (Richard Gere), he puts all of the details of the trip on the table for the young ambitious aviator bluntly, though with a bit of laughter as to not come across too harshly. George explains to Amelia that due to the bold, yet fatal, attempts of past female aviators to make this flight record, she will merely be a passenger aboard the plane, and the male pilot will sign a contract stating that Amelia was the pilot of the plane, thus gaining the fame as well as the financial benefit. This does put the female pilot off a bit, knowing herself that she is capable of handling the Atlantic flight, but upon signing her name to complete the task as requested, she does as directed by George, with a few decisions made at her own accord.
We see Amelia complete her Atlantic flight, and receive the guaranteed fame for doing so. Several endorsements come her way, as well as other aspiring young female pilots, such as Elinor Smith (Mia Wasikowska), and she also catches the eye of a romantically interested flight instructor, Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). As the film continues, we are shown Amelia’s completion of a solo flight across the Atlantic to better soothe her guilt about the past, the seemingly crooked at times “pony shows” she had to put on for the public to retain her financial status to afford to fly, and her marriage to George Putnam, both the high and low ends of the relationship.
In closing, most viewers are certainly familiar with who Earhart was as well as the things she accomplished, but may not be quite as familiar with the more personal aspects of her life, and this film does a moderate job in conveying some of those things. Something that is shown through the film and portrayed by Hilary Swank very well, is the guilt and distaste expressed by Amelia towards the entire publicity side of her aviation career, and possible resentment she felt for having to be something she did not exactly stand for in order to have the finances to fly. Generally, audiences may have expected a little more storytelling regarding the lady of history’s youth, rather than just a couple of clips of her being amazed by a flying plane in Kansas as a child, rather than a Hollywood-ized version of the woman’s personal life after becoming famous. The performances from the cast are exceptional, especially just has mentioned above, Swank’s portrayal of the female flight enthusiast, down to the particular Kansas voice of Earhart, and the production efforts seen in the early 1900’s set design and wardrobe are very impressive as well. Overall, the movie itself receives a “3.5 Star Rating” for being a decent biographical based film.
Video Quality on this release is in full 1080p using the AVC MPEG-4 codec on a BD-50 (50 gigabyte single-layer Blu-ray Disc) in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. As with any era-themed film, the production efforts to bring to life the early 1900’s world that Amelia Earhart was claiming fame in are really impressive down to very small details, and this is certainly an element to be shown-off, especially in a Blu-ray release of the film. The color palette here is very rich and bold, providing a perfect saturation of primaries, and lending a vibrancy to hues that occur often through the set design and wardrobe that is not overkill. There is frequently a subtle warm tone to the look of the picture that does blend a suitable sepia/vintage look to the modern movie without dampening visual subjects mentioned above, or the High Definition details of the release.
Being that this is a bio-flick, there are appropriately a few brief clips of stock footage from Amelia Earhart’s historical events; through the applied editing, these 4×3 clips are nicely blended within their respective High Definition scenes of the film. Other basic topics of the release’s video quality receive respectable marks as well, such as accurate flesh tones, and a decently solid black level. Just as discussed above regarding the era-themed production efforts, definition is above adequate in all of the wardrobe and set design creations, from the pronounced rivets on the wings of the Electra, to the faint freckles of Earhart’s ginger face. Overall, the video quality on this release does the legacy of the historical female figure’s life justice, and receives a “4.5 Star Rating“.
Audio Quality on this release is presented in DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio. Just as you may imagine with a film whose content revolves around aviation, there are nicely executed engine rumbles presented within the 5.1 setup, often providing presence from the subwoofer that ranges from soft bass usage to a passing roar from the early era planes. With a variety of scenes that involve these passing planes in flight and taxi, their passing on-screen actions are relayed audibly as panning in many situations, with the sound of their engines traveling from left to right channels, front to rear channels, and so forth. There is a scene in particular that lets the audio track show off within the soundscape, consisting of some violent flight turbulence during a storm that offers quite a bit of kick from all channels, with panning elements, as well as strong bass presence.
The original music composed by Gabriel Yared (“Cold Mountain“, “City of Angels“, & “1408“) bares a strong use of brass that richly fills the front channels, as well as lighter tones from strings that make for rear channel presence. Dialogue is for the most part presented from the center front channel with no issues, though at times, ADR (automated dialogue replacement) recordings of Amelia’s narrations in the form of journal-keeping are conveyed from all three front channels. Overall, the audio track on this release has a solid presentation with no negative notes, but it is more along the border of slightly simple in content, and does receive a “4 Star Rating“.
Bonus materials are presented in High Definition, 1080i, and Standard Definition, all using Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo.
- Digital Copy of the film is included which is compatible with both iTunes and Windows Media portable devices, as well as Mac and PC computers.
- “Deleted Scenes” (HD, 13:53) includes 10 scenes.
- “Making ‘Amelia‘” (1080i, 23:06) is the basic rundown of subjects of the production with interviews of the cast and filmmaker.
- “The Power of Amelia Earhart” (1080i, 10:45) interviews with the Director, Hilary Swank, and others as they discuss the legacy of this female pioneer’s accomplishments, and bringing her life to the big-screen.
- “The Plane Behind the Legend” (1080i, 4:33) discusses finding an actual Electra plane to use for the film, and interviews with the owner of one of the 11 remaining Electra planes.
- “Re-Constructing the Planes of ‘Amelia‘” (1080i, 6:37) shows behind the scenes of the production’s set design efforts to recreate these vintage planes for both exterior and interior shots with as much similarity to the real-deal as possible.
- “Movietone News” (SD, 6:41) includes 7 chapters of stock footage pertaining to many news reels and events of the famous life of Amelia Earhart.
Blu-ray Disc packaging:
Screenshots:
NOTE: The full-sized 1920×1080 files are in a .PNG file format and uncompressed. Bare with the slow loading times, keep in mind these files are at least 1MB (1 megabyte) in size each.
