CinSyn Hosts Santa Cruz’s 1st Camera Olympics

UPDATE! It’s time to announce the winners of the different camera olympic events….

Scavenger Hunt: April Short won a Plantronics Headset

Camera Tag: Blake Allan and James Tipton won a goodie bag of Niman Ranch Sustainable Meats

Short Film Contest: Josh Gorham and family won $50 to Bay Photo

Congrats to all the winners and participants! We hope you had a lot of fun and join us again next time.

P.S. Check out films and photos from the event on our facebook page.

We were inspired to create this event by a recent Canon commercial featuring users playing tag with cameras. It looked like too much fun- so we thought, why not have our own? Come out and get involved on the 23rd of July to make this a regular event in Santa Cruz. We can’t wait to see you out there!

RSVP on Facebook >>

Here’s how we’ll do it:

First things first:

1. Meet downtown at the Clock-tower at 2pm on July 23rd, 2011.
2. Bring your digital camera- remember to charge those batteries and bring an empty memory card!
3. Your friends
4. BOTH A RED AND BLUE SHIRT.

There will be 3 different events:

I. Freeze tag

Objective: Grab the most shots of the other team in a limited amount of time, while avoiding getting your picture taken. Run! Hide! Leap! Shoot!

Setting: Science Hill @ UCSC

Winner: The team that takes the most photos of the opposing team

II. Scavenger Hunt

Objective: Capture as many photgraphs of the listed items/objects/people/situations as you can in the time given.

Setting: Throughout downtown Santa Cruz

Winner: The team that captures the most photos on the list

III. Instant Short/Photo Film Contest

Objective: Create a 1 minute film (or sequence of photographs) without cuts to be shown immediately after completion.

Setting: Anywhere in Santa Cruz! Spread out!

Winner: Group with the most creative and original film, as judged by all contestants

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For questions or signup please contact CinSyn at create@cinematicsyndicate.com

Achron Trailer featured on Destructoid.com

Last Monday, May 16th, Destructoid.com posted the new ACHRON pre-launch trailer recently produced by the Cinematic Syndicate.

“…The concept alone is truly innovative. Suffice to say, it’s easily among the most promising independently developed titles I’ve seen in quite some time….” -Tim Sheehy of Destructoid.com

ACHRON is not your average real-time-strategy game as it boasts the ability to undo one’s mistakes & plan for the future  by manipulating time as one of its core resources- a first for this genre.

You can learn more about ACHRON at their website, www.achrongame.com, as well as purchase a preview copy of the game which allows you to play the beta release as well as the first release when it hits shelves in a couple of months.