December 2006
Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty
by jlesage
"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.
November 2006
Mojiti-video commentary software
by jlesage & 11 others
useful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
by jlesage
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
Spout - We're talkin' movies
by jlesage
a movie search engine, blogspot, voting, good plot summaries, able to buy film
Video History Project: Resources
by jlesage
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
by jlesage
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
by jlesage
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Forgetfulness. animated poem. text by Billy Collins
by jlesage
lyrical, good use of low res video on computer, experimental
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
by jlesage
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
MIT--media in transition 05: the work of stories
by jlesage
much of the conference is available in av form or papers or abstracts.
October 2006
Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan
by jlesage
chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author online
The Photography Channel
by jlesage
collection of audio/slideshows by skilled photographers, often in the context of photojournalism
Guardian Unlimited | Science | DNA discovery may crack old murder cases
by jlesage
news article that gives new plot device to use in crime tv scripts or detective films; new way to interpret old or poor quality DNA samles
Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: The Voice Lesson
by jlesage
"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.
Lesson Plans for Digital Storytelling
by jlesage
this is a lesson plan that could be adapted for different ages or kinds of classes, e.g., composition or video production or narrative arts
Digital Story Examples
by jlesage
a page leading to many examples, things you could make with imovie; from more than decade of practice from 1990-2003
September 2006
The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time : filmcritic.com
by jlesage & 2 others
I teach screenwriting students to write for the ending; it economizes crafting a storyline.
August 2006
Film Sound Cliches
by jlesage & 1 other
humorous notes, of use to teachers and screenwriters, about unobserved narrative audio signals
July 2006
Film Analysis
by jlesage
an extensive and well illustrated--with stills and clips--analysis of film aesthetics and terminology; a good basic resource for any media teacher or film lover to spend time working through
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