2009
Internet Archive: A/V Geeks
by 4004 & 1 other
The A/V Geeks Film Archive is an ephemeral film collection curated by Skip Elsheimer. What started as a hobby more than ten years is now a lifetime commitment. His collection has grown to over 20,000 films gathered from school auctions, thrift stores, closets and dumpsters.
2007
:: Search Locations ::
by rrhobbs
R. Richard Hobbs NYC Area Film Location Scout, Film Location Manager, Film Location Library and Photo Location and Production Services rrhobbs.com Search Locations
2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
by jlesage
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
Plants In Motion
by jlesage
"Time-lapse photography allows us to easily see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living organisms capable of some extraordinary things." various phases of plant life, both on cellular and external level
Naturesongs Digital Recordings and Photos from Nature!
by jlesage
insects, animals, weather, water, birds, etc. and their sounds
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."
MIT communications forum archive
by jlesage
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by jlesage & 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
Observations on film art and “Film Art”
by jlesage
blog by senior film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: The Intro Textbook: A Comparison
by jlesage
an entry in a film blog that I like that compares and contrasts the Film 101 textbooks commonly used
Free, Comprehensive Audio and Video Course
by jlesage
Television Production--A Free, Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production by Ron Whittaker, from cybercollege
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
by jlesage
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
U B U W E B
by jlesage & 28 others
"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film
Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page
by jlesage
much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures
Hugh McCarney
by jlesage
list of his courses, each of which has many film and communications studies essays available in full text form
Popular Tags on Flickr Photo Sharing
by jlesage & 1 other
For 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
the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking
by jlesage
clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers
"film theory" - Prefound2
by jlesage
As always when I try out a new search engine, I search on "film theory." This site usefully brings up links to syllabi as well as other sites.
Strictly Film School | Analysis of Landmark Cinema
by jlesage & 4 others
many important avant garde films here in clips
Clusty the Clustering Engine
by jlesage & 56 others
This is a top-notch new kind of search engine (Web 2.0). My test case for searches is "film theory" as the search term, and such a search brought me many new resources I was previously unaware of.
