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An NPR Best Book of the Year: “A pointedly passionate look at what’s been lost in the digital era.” —Los Angeles Times
A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered that transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both...
A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered that transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both...
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"Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a sound engineer. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included."--
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Stephanie Campbell (MFA, Acting/Directing, University of Arizona) is an international mask methods specialist and a theater professor at Montana State University. Ms. Campbell conducts mask workshops worldwide and offers an easily understood process of character creation for use in your own classes. Using character masks representing an entire range of emotions, participants can learn to more fully develop their ability to make and "allow" intuitive...
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"Today, most of the music we hear is compressed to a fraction of its original sound, while analog masterpieces are turning to dust in record company vaults. As these recordings disappear, music fans aren't just losing a collection of notes. We're losing spaciousness, breadth of the sound field, and the ability hear and feel a ping of a triangle or a pluck of a guitar string, each with its own resonance and harmonics that slowly trail off into silence....
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Nationally syndicated film critic Roger Ebert takes students from rushes to the final cut of a dramatic bank robbery scene. Ebert's commentary provides insights into basic editing techniques such as matching action, parallel editing, and continuity, as well as the effects of camera angles, point of view, and reaction shots. The film concludes with two edited versions, illustrating the widely different approaches an editor might take in assembling...
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Helicopters lifting off from the U.S. Embassy at the fall of Saigon, an IRA terrorist throwing hand grenades at a funeral, oil wells burning out of control in Kuwait: these unforgettable images transcend words to affect viewers deeply. This program contains clips of those and other events, including civil war in Nigeria, the Falkland Islands War, the aftermath of the explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan,...
10) Great disasters
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Caused both by humans and by nature, disasters have played an unforgettable part in the history of the 20th century. This program contains footage of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, and the aftermath of Pan Am flight 103's mid-air explosion over Lockerbie and the 1998 high-speed train crash at Eschede. Clips of natural catastrophes include flooding in New England; hurricanes in Florida; avalanches...
11) Joel Schumacher
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He broke into movies as a costume designer, but Joel Schumacher wanted to direct more than anything else. Woody Allen suggested writing as a springboard, prompting screenplays for Car Wash and The Wiz-which in turn led to Schumacher's directorial debut, The Incredible Shrinking Woman. In this program, the veteran filmmaker talks about those early experiences and the prominent directing career they forged. Subjects discussed include the importance...
12) Richard Donner
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Released in 1978, Superman: The Movie became the archetype of the modern superhero film. It also established Richard Donner as a master of the action-adventure genre, propelling him on to a career that includes the Lethal Weapon franchise as well as Maverick, Conspiracy Theory, and Sixteen Blocks. In this program, Donner reflects on his accomplishments and shares what he has learned about working in Hollywood. He describes the challenges and rewards...
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This informative program exposes areas of narrative-writing that most frequently pose challenges for beginners, providing tips and techniques for authoring a good read. Viewers learn how to create well-rounded characters, complete with motivations and character flaws; techniques for establishing tone and mood; and how to capture attention starting on page one. The video also covers writing realistic dialogue, developing a good plot line, building...
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When Charles Frazier's Civil War novel Cold Mountain debuted, it became an instant best-seller and won a National Book Award. This program tracks the evolution of director Anthony Minghella's Hollywood adaptation from initial scripting to world premiere screening. Behind-the-scenes footage of the preproduction, production, and postproduction processes sheds light on location scouting, casting, research, set-building, music recording, location shooting,...
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Film budgeting expert Diane Cornell leads off this lecture series regarding financing an independent film with these topics: politics of money, your script, budget strategy, financing, unions, the crew, loss and damage, bonds contingencies, SAG, production reports, set safety, sexual harassment, and animals and children on set.