Chair: Joe Semlak
Email: sigops@acm.uiuc.edu

Meeting Time: Tuesday 7:00 PM
Place: 1225 DCL

     SIGOps continues to work on our operating system, SOS '02.  We now have some keyboard and sound support and we continue our efforts to have reliable memory allocation and multitasking capabilities.

The Past, Present, and Future of IFV
By L. Zinger


     Some of you out there, reading this may never have heard of IFV, and that's a real shame because IFV is THE only film and video group here on campus that not only actually makes videos and allows anyone with an idea to pick up a camera and make a movie, documentary, commercial, or just film ducks copulating, but it is a club full of people who care about movies deeply and we measure our dedication in terms of how often a film gets made, which is once every three minutes. Yes, not only are we dedicated, we are also fast.

     Continuing on in this one-sided conversation with you, the adorable reader, I should probably tell you what IFV stands for.  What IFV stands for is Illini Film and Video. Yep, that's who we are. Hello, nice to meet you.  I serve this club like a soldier serves an army.  I am dedicated, and among running for miles in the cold, dark night while chanting, "IFV!" I like to do push-ups into the thousands to increase my time holding the Steadycam.  Now that's dedication, folks.

     Okay, enough about me, now something about this club.  Michael Lee Stone and Andy Sherman McAllister started IFV.  These two young freshman here at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, were astounded that there was no film making outlet on campus.  In a desperate attempt to save their own souls, they launched what is now the biggest and only film club here on campus.  Slowly but surely they were able to buy two cameras through SORF funds and other fundraising adventures like Ebertfest (the film festival sponsored and hosted by Roger Ebert) and also Atius (the Greek talent show put on for Moms on Mom's Day weekend). Michael Stone was the reigning ruler of IFV last year, but is now on hiatus in Germany where he is enjoying himself immensely and getting lost at random bus terminals.  The general holding up the fort here on the homestead is now Andrew McAllister. Almost single-handedly (I say almost single-handedly because he has two great cap

tains watching his back: Erin Robb and Laura Zinger.)  General McAllister, in one year, has added the following: another digital video camera (a steadycam jr.), several microphones, green screen capabilities, computer editing equipment (thanks, of course, to ACM), and a lovely boom pole which he made out of a painting stick to the IFV arsenal.

     (Before we go any further into the past, present, and future of IFV, I just wanted to say hello to my father. Hi, Dad!)

     Let me just mention one more thing about IFV's past.  We just put on an excellent film festival.  If you are interested in watching the tape with all of the submissions from the film festival, just head on over to That's Rentertainment and ask for the IFV film festival tape.  It costs $1.  If you are generally a cheapo, then maybe you should wait a week or two and then head over to the Media Lab in the Undergrad library and rent it out from there. Enough already - let's talk about the present.

     IFV has several productions on the horizon. Two of them have already been filmed. One is called
The Argument, written and directed by Jay Tuley who is a real soldier and apparently also the new chair of MacWarriors.  Congratulations, Jay!  IFV loves you!  The other film, The Deadline, has already been shot and is now waiting and crying to be edited (I'd just like to say right now that IFV fiercely enforces the rule that if you are going to name your movie, then it has to start with the word "the" and can only be two words long. So there. What did you say, soldier?! Are you arguing with me?! Drop and give me 1024! Now!)

     Those are the only two productions that have been completely filmed this semester. However, there are two productions being filmed as this hits the press.  The first one is a short film called
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