November 2006
FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds
by 41 others, 1 commentsearch the web for material for your soundmixes; various file formats and sampling rates can be specified
Scenes of Provincial Life
a vblog diary from someone who has a good eye and lives in a picturesque environment
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr
various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
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
Guerrilla Filmmaking 101
the nitty-gritty of no-budget filmmaking, good on deflating romantic notions often held by first-timers
September 2006
Popular Tags on Flickr Photo Sharing
by 1 otherFor teaching film, popular tags to follow include "narrative," "fiction," "story." It makes a good early Easy assignment: ask students to do a photo narrative, which now can be posted in Flickr and tagged with a class title, e.g., "101lesage"--teacher mu
www.jonasmekas.com
by 1 otherpatriarch of New American Cinema now has a daily blog, need to pay to subscribe; new step by father of autobiographical film
Lens On Lebanon
"documentary material, photo narratives, and video diaries of daily life conceived, produced, and contributed by residents of Lebanon"
July 2006
cinematicfilm experimental film video art
by 1 otherdatabase of experimental film available on web, over 1000 films
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