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The Sensation of Sight (2006) (bookmarked 4 Jun 2009 at 1:40pm) A drama about man's search for meaning amidst despair. The film centers around an introspective English teacher (David Strathairn) entering a mid-life crisis driven by a recent tragedy. Excellent performances, skillful direction and lush cinematography come together in this contemporary independent film that reminds us what independent cinema brings into our lives that Hollywood mainstream cinema can not.
Designing for sound by Randy Thom (bookmarked 3 Jun 2009 at 10:59am) Randy Thom writes, "What I propose is that the way for a filmmaker to take advantage of sound is not simply to make it possible to record good sound on the set, or simply to hire a talented sound designer/composer to fabricate sounds, but rather to design the film with sound in mind, to allow sound?s contributions to influence creative decisions in the other crafts. Films as different from "Star Wars" as "Citizen Kane," "Raging Bull," "Eraserhead," "The Elephant Man," "Never Cry Wolf" and "Once Upon A Time In The West" were thoroughly "sound designed," though no sound designer was credited on most of them. "
Transcript of the John Tusa Interview with video artist Bill Viola (bookmarked 3 Jun 2009 at 10:24am) BBC Radio 3, Excerpt: "Yes I do very strongly, I think art has a more important role to play in this century than it has had to play in a very, very long time, in terms of history, and the reason for that is, in the age of globalisation, which is an age of fear, it's an age of uncertainty for many of us, it's an age that is characterised by the free flow of information and not only the free flow of information but the uncontrolled flow of information not in the sense of political regimes, but in the sense of like, you can't stop the water, it's like leaking everywhere and it's just flowing out of everything, everything is getting wet. That's really what globalisation is about, and it's not coincidental that the primary fear of individuals in the global age is loss of identity. " -- Bill Viola
Upland Productions (bookmarked 2 Jun 2009 at 1:16pm) Upland Productions helps their clients communicate who they are and what they stand for through custom films. They produce beautiful and effective hand-crafted films.
InteractiveStory.net (bookmarked 2 Jun 2009 at 11:07am) The dream of interactive drama, perhaps best envisioned by the Star Trek Holodeck, has players interacting with compelling, psychologically complex characters, and through these interactions having a real influence on a dynamically evolving storyline. Motivated by our belief that a fully-realized interactive drama has not yet been built, we embarked on a five year effort to integrate believable characters, natural language conversation, and dynamic storyline, into a small but complete, playable, publicly-released experience. Façade is the result of this effort.
Axel Gimenez .blog (bookmarked 20 May 2009 at 11:14am) Axel Gimenez directs music videos and commercials. You'll find some really interesting commercials on this site, in which he collects remarkable examples that provide inspiration and demonstrate authenticity.
Find Frequencies (bookmarked 5 May 2009 at 8:49am) Calculator from Sennheiser allows you to figure out the best frequencies to use when using a wireless microphone system. Enter zip or city and it shows you all of the active FCC licensed transmitters in the area and what frequency slot they are in.
HPRC (bookmarked 1 Apr 2009 at 11:33am) hard cases, plastic cases, waterproof cases
Edward Branigan (bookmarked 26 Mar 2009 at 1:01pm) Professor Branigan's areas of specialty include classical and contemporary film theory, film analysis, and film narratology. I love his 1992 book, Narrative Comprehension and Film, he's one of the most interesting scholars in Cinema Studies today.
Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age (bookmarked 24 Mar 2009 at 6:09am) What are the two biggest challenges for artists working in this digital age? The tools to produce films, music, books, and art have been democratized: they?re accessible and inexpensive. And the channels to distribute all sort sof creative products have also been blown wide open: today, anyone can distribute a video or a song or an image to a global audience, for free. The result is the noisiest, most chaotic marketplace that creative artists have ever known. That noise and chaos creates the two biggest challenges facing artists today: how do you cultivate a big audience for your work, and how do you leverage that audience to support your career financially?
Cut Your Own Scene - Two Fists One Heart (bookmarked 24 Mar 2009 at 4:51am) Producers of this film are giving you a chance to download and edit rushes from their film TWO FISTS ONE HEART. This is the footage that editors work with and it is free for you to use under creative commons as long as you acknowledge the source and link back to the official movie page. We?ve tried to give you a mix of scenes so that you can even download all of them and put together a short film of your own.
Edge: THE OPIATES OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES by Nassim Taleb (bookmarked 10 Mar 2009 at 9:49am) Nassim Taleb writes, "By what I call the narrative fallacy, the media distorts our mental map of the world by feeding us what can be made into a story that can be squeezed into our minds. For instance (preventable) cancer, not terrorism remains the greatest danger. The number of persons killed by hurricanes, while consequential, is dwarfed by that of the thousands of isolated daily victims dying in hospital beds. These are not story-worthy, implying; the absence of attention on the part of the press maps into disproportionately reduced resources allocated to their welfare. The difference between actual, actuarially defined risks and the perception of dangers is enormous ? and, sadly, growing with the globalization and the media, and our increased vulnerability to visual stimuli."
Slashdot | RIAA, Stop Suing Tech Investors! (bookmarked 1 Mar 2009 at 2:13pm) The RIAA isn't just suing tens of thousands of music consumers; they've also begun filing lawsuits naming the directors of and investors in tech companies that they believe contribute to copyright infringement. NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "ZDNet urges the big recording industries to stop suing tech investors ... "
Million-Dollar Murray (bookmarked 22 Feb 2009 at 1:23pm) Malcolm Gladwell writes that problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage. Article from the New Yorker, February 13, 2006. Explains the normal distribution vs. power law issue in understanding and solving problems with examples in three areas: homelessness, bad cops, and air pollution from cars.
Film Studies For Free (bookmarked 22 Feb 2009 at 1:23am) Commentary on and links to online open-access film studies resources of note, by Catherine Grant. These resources will include freely-accessible, published scholarship or research in various forms: from film and media weblogs, through online peer-reviewed journals and film/video archives, to other forms of web-based scholarly writing, as well as online works of film/moving-image research by practice.
Fernanda Rossi | Documentary Story Structure: From Great to Excellent (bookmarked 9 Jan 2009 at 12:57pm) Documentary Story Structure: From Great to Excellent: Fernanda Rossi, documentary story consultant, Gino Del Guercio, filmmaker. If you feel that your documentary project is almost there but don't know what would make it great, watch documentary story consultant Fernanda Rossi analyze Gino Del Guercio's work in progress Abandoned in the Attic. With this real life "before and after" example, Fernanda Rossi (known as "the Doc Doctor") will explain story structure models and what to look for to make your film excellent. This event is part of the 2008 Making Media Now conference, presented by the Filmmaker's Collaborative.
The-Digital-Picture.com deletes ?anti-Canon? post about the EOS 5D Mark II (bookmarked 8 Jan 2009 at 9:35am) The-Digital-Picture.com and SDReview have been deleting ?anti-Canon? post by users raising legitimate concerns. Apparently these two forums do not encourage open and truthful communication about the cameras under discussion.
The Future of Jounalism: Or, How Americans are learning to have more interesting conversations (bookmarked 24 Dec 2008 at 10:32am) A Talk by Scott London, excerpt:" For all the despair about the death of newspapers, the decline of radio, and the imminent death of local TV news, there is a transformation taking place. I see it as the rise of a new kind of journalism, one that will benefit us both as individuals and as a culture, at least in the long run. I don't have a name for it. But I can tell you it revolves around something rather prosaic, namely conversation ? the exchange of ideas, information, and personal stories that allow us to create shared meaning and common purpose. The next stage in the evolution of journalism, I believe, is one that revolves around the act of a conversation."
Video Rewrite (bookmarked 1 Dec 2008 at 8:28am) Video Rewrite is a research project that uses existing footage to create automatically new video of a person mouthing words that she did not speak in the original footage. This technique is useful in movie dubbing, for example, where the movie sequence can be modified to sync the actors' lip motions to the new soundtrack. Video Rewrite is the first facial-animation system to automate all the labeling and assembly tasks required to resync existing footage to a new soundtrack.
1timstreet (bookmarked 30 Nov 2008 at 10:54pm) A blog written by Tim Street about Online Videos, Social Media and How To Monetize Viral Videos.
Senses of Cinema (bookmarked 30 Nov 2008 at 12:29pm) Senses of Cinema is an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema in many forms, from the industrially-produced blockbuster to the hand-crafted experimental work and they aim to encourage awareness of the histories of diverse forms with wide-ranging analysis and critique with an emphasis on australian cinema, past and present.
Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture (bookmarked 30 Nov 2008 at 10:55am) Images is a non-commercial journal created for readers who enjoy movies and popular culture. They publish articles about movie directors and genres, comic book artists and publishers, television series and stars, and any other form of popular culture that primarily uses visual means of communication.
A Conversation with Les Blank by David Tames | The Independent (bookmarked 29 Nov 2008 at 10:20am) In his new film All In This Tea, director Les Blank operates at the far extremes of technology, using digital video to explore an old-world subject matter: artisan, handmade tea. Blank, who is best known for Burden of Dreams, Garlic is as Good as Good Mothers, and Chulas Fronteras, saw digital video as a way for him to take his trademark fly-on-the-wall approach even further. The film presents an intimate glimpse of tea expert David Lee Hoffman as he travels to remote regions of China where the tea craft dates back centuries, despite encroaching forces of mass production. I recently attended the Woods Hole Film Festival on Cape Cod where I had a chance to see All In This Tea and to talk with Les Blank his experiences with Werner Herzog, why he self distributes, and which of his films he considers his favorite.
What Happy People Don?t Do (bookmarked 24 Nov 2008 at 8:10am) Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers ? but they don?t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds.
Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro web site (bookmarked 21 Nov 2008 at 2:39pm) An excellent source of tutorials and how-to information covering Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Compressor, etc.
XML2Text: Communicating with Final Cut Pro sequence XMLs (bookmarked 16 Nov 2008 at 9:53pm) XML2Text is a tool for working with Final Cut Pro sequence XML files. It will extract useful information and allows to save this information in different formats. XML2Text can extract either Marker or Clip information from the sequence XML. The Marker information can be used to feed encoders other than Apple's Compressor with precise chapter information or get chapter information into DVD Studio Pro. Another use is to 'lift' markers from a clip level to the sequence level, so special notes are more obvious when editing. Also a print out of the saved marker text list is often helpful when it comes together with the video of the sequence.
The Documentary Site (bookmarked 14 Nov 2008 at 3:14pm) The goal of this site by Heather McIntosh is to provide an online resource for documentary. Other sites are out there, and many of them cover recent news, festival information, general production issues, and even distribution. This site's niche is more academic than practical but wonderful nonetheless.
Canon 5D Mark II Review by Dirck Halstead (bookmarked 11 Nov 2008 at 6:58pm) The Canon 5D Mark II is a remarkable new camera. Not only is it a 21-megapixel D-SLR, but it is also among first "hybrid" cameras. It takes full 1080p High Definition video and has an audio input! As more and more photojournalists find themselves confronted with "multi-tasking" in their jobs, providing both stills and video, this is a major step that points the way to the future of the industry. This camera will record up to 12 minutes of 1080p H.264 video on a 4G media card. But this is not the typical glowing review, it's very realistic about what the camera is and is not. A still camera is built to shoot stills. A video camera is built to shoot video. When you try to combine them into one instrument, you run into series of problems, not the least being ergonomics. This ergonomic issue is the Achilles' heel of the camera as far as video goes. Video must be steady at all times to work.
Canyon Cinema (bookmarked 9 Nov 2008 at 2:42pm) Canyon Cinema, 145 Ninth Street, Suite 260, San Francisco, California 94103, 415-626-2255, distributor of experimental and alternative films, Dominic Angerame, Executive Director.
TV EYE VIDEO (bookmarked 9 Nov 2008 at 2:39pm) An underground DVD label founded to help filmmakers and videomakers take control of having their work seen by the public. They are building a catalog that pushes boundaries, for example, Saul Levine's Super8 films volume one is among their DVD titles.
RichFLV - an FLV Editor (bookmarked 8 Nov 2008 at 11:51am) An FLV editor written in Flex using Adobe AIR. A simple utility that gives you direct binary editability into an FLV file. You can inject and edit FLV metadata and crop at any FLV keyframe.
Meeting Wizard (bookmarked 6 Nov 2008 at 10:20am) An online meeting invitation and scheduling service, Propose times, Review responses, Confirm. Really cool. Works for planning both online and face to face meetings.
Perian (bookmarked 1 Nov 2008 at 8:20am) Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support to QuickTime for many popular video formats: * File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW * Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture * Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO * AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3 * Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT.
Jubler subtitle editor (bookmarked 1 Nov 2008 at 8:19am) Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in realtime or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features. Requirements ? Latest version of JRE ? MPlayer to view subtitles ? ASpell to spell-check the subtitles. It is open source under a liberal (GNU) public licence. It is written in Java 5.0 (a.k.a. Java 1.5.0) in order to be really multi-platform. It has been tested under Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X.
Gen-We.org Video (bookmarked 31 Oct 2008 at 1:57pm) Watch the Generation We video. Hope for the future. A call to action. In early 2009, Gen-We will release a site that will allow you to connect, organize, develop campaigns, and launch actions that influence the political process and enable your collective voice to be heard and heeded.
Hidden Dimensions - How Netflix is Slowly Killing Apple's TV Hobby || The Mac Observer (bookmarked 29 Oct 2008 at 11:39pm) Good story on Apple TV vs. Netflix. My own bet is on Netflix too. Apple TV will go the way of the Newton unless Apple opens up, and that's not something they know how to do. Too bad. I wish I could see Netflix movies on Apple TV. And if I can't, I'll never buy one.
the show with zefrank (bookmarked 29 Oct 2008 at 5:36pm) Ze Frank offers one of the best definitions of "brand"
Transcriva (bookmarked 29 Oct 2008 at 1:52pm) Transcriva turns the tedious chore of transcribing audio recordings into a natural, fluid process with the simplicity of a Mac interface. The chat-like interface produces a clean, concise transcript whether you're transcribing a single speaker's dictation, meeting minutes, or multiple-person interviews. Transcriva works with most any audio format supported by Apple QuickTime. Add a clip, press play, and start typing - the only thing easier is making someone else do it for you. I've used Transcriva for transcriing many video documentary interviews. Here's a trick when transcribing video interviews: add whatever extra "leader" at the start of the audio file before you export the audio from Final Cut Pro or whatever NLE you are using so the time code in the audio match the video, so the audio transcriptions will match the video times. Yes, there is video transcription software out there, but it costs much more. At 19.99 I like using Transcriva for a wide range of transcription needs.
30 Reasons (bookmarked 22 Oct 2008 at 12:53pm) 30 Reasons is a 30-day email and internet campaign to encourage people to vote for Barack Obama. Our goal is simple: Use design to build a logical, multi-faceted argument for Obama and make it easy to share each reason with another person. We enlisted 30 graphic designers to create a poster that represents a reason to vote for Obama. Starting on the October 5th, we will post a new poster online every day and email it to our list. Recipients can easily share the email with other supporters and friends who are undecided.
InqScribe (bookmarked 20 Oct 2008 at 1:51pm) Simple Video Transcription and Subtitling, Simple Transcription * View and transcribe video in the same window * Works with audio as well as video * Use a foot pedal to control your video or audio * Insert time codes in your transcript * Insert simple analysis codes via text snippets * Reads embedded timecodes in QuickTime and BWF WAV files * Exports to a wide variety of formats * Unicode compliant -- use in multiple languages. We have users around the world, including users in Egypt, Sweden, India, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Central Asia. Simple Subtitling: * Convert your transcript into a subtitled movie * Complete control over subtitle location * Complete control over font, color, and style * Export subtitles for use with Final Cut Pro (XML), DVD Studio Pro (STL), Google Video (SubRip), and more...
History Is A Weapon (bookmarked 20 Oct 2008 at 8:54am) It is very important to understand what history is, and is not. History isn't what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be "neutral" or "objective." Those who choose, either following a set agenda or guided by hidden prejudices, serve their interests. Their interests could be to continue this world as it now stands or to make a new world. We cannot simply be passive. We must choose whose interests are best: those who want to keep things going as they are or those who want to work to make a better world. If we choose the latter, we must seek out the tools we will need. Some histories paint a picture where only the elites have the power to change the world, while others point out that social change is rarely commanded from the top down.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for president (bookmarked 19 Oct 2008 at 11:06am) Colin Powell, the Bush administration's former Secretary of State and the first African-American chairman of the Joint Chiefs, endorsed Barack Obama for president yesterday. Powell, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said Obama is a "transformational" figure best suited to break with the failed policies of President Bush. "I think that Sen. Obama brings a fresh set of eyes, a fresh set of ideas to the table," Powell said outside the studio. Powell also said that McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate cast doubt on the Arizona senator's judgment.
I'm a lifelong conservative activist and I'm backing Barack Obama (bookmarked 19 Oct 2008 at 11:04am) Larry Hunter writes: This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama. I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America.
CiteInPages (bookmarked 19 Oct 2008 at 10:29am) CiteInPages is a suite of four Applescripts that allow the open source reference manager BibDesk to be integrated with Apple's word processor, Pages (v. 3, from iWork '08). Using BibDesk templates, "working citations" containing BibTeX cite keys in a defined format can be dragged or inserted by script from BibDesk into Pages documents as the documents are edited. CiteInPages replaces these working citations with numbered or author-date in-text citations, creates a correctly-ordered bibliography based on a BibDesk template, and pastes the bibliography into the Pages document.
The 10 Best Academic Programs for Documentary Filmmakers | The Independent (bookmarked 18 Oct 2008 at 10:39pm) It is rare to find educational programs that focus solely on the craft of documentary but several tprograms are listed in this excellent list that is evenly split between university degree and non-degree programs. My note: There's clearly a wide gap between the overall quality of programs, you have to look beyond the surface and spend time with the graduates of the various programs to really determine which is best for you.
MySpace about to lose out to Facebook in U.S.? (bookmarked 14 Oct 2008 at 6:49pm) Several months ago, traffic firm ComScore noted that Facebook--a year ago far smaller than the News Corp.-owned MySpace--was starting to pass its rival in worldwide traffic. But in the U.S., which still has the big ad dollars, MySpace remained bigger. [...] Even according to Pingdom's numbers, MySpace doesn't appear to be shrinking. The performance firm thinks that could be due to a number of factors: that MySpace is continuing to recruit new users to replace those who may have left for Facebook, that people are using both social networks, or that Facebook is recruiting members who haven't been prior users of either site. [...]
6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds (ReadWriteWeb) (bookmarked 14 Oct 2008 at 8:17am) RSS allows users to easily keep track of news from multiple web sites because updates are delivered directly to them. But the problem many people face is that there are so many sources of information that we're trying to keep track of, we've become buried. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. This article lists various tools for filtering RSS feeds.
Small Pieces Loosely Joined (bookmarked 13 Oct 2008 at 11:46pm) This book by David Weinberger provides a fascinating explanation of the Web as an idea rather than a technology and discusses how it is challenging fundamental concepts of our culture. Weinberger writes: "If the Web is changing bedrock concepts such as space, time, perfection, social interaction, knowledge, matter and morality--each a chapter of this book--no wonder we're so damn confused. That's as it should be. A new world is opening up, a world that we create as we explore it."
Why Universities Shouldn't Create "Something like YouTube" (Part One) (bookmarked 13 Oct 2008 at 6:36pm) Henry Jenkins argument Why Universities Shouldn't Create "Something like YouTube"
YouTube - Apple Knowledge Navigator (bookmarked 9 Oct 2008 at 8:57pm) A classic vision video demonstrating how agent based interfaces might work. The video was written and conceived by Hugh Dubberly and Doris Mitsch of Apple Creative Services, and produced by The Kenwood Group in San Francisco providing a groundbreaking, powerful a vision of the future of computing as 2001: A Space Odyssey. It may be useful to note that the video opened with the statement "In the year 2010." Most viewers missed this indication that the Knowledge Navigator was a visitor from the future and wanted the features now.
