18 November 2006
Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page
extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page
Observations on film art and “Film Art”
blog by senior film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: The Intro Textbook: A Comparison
an entry in a film blog that I like that compares and contrasts the Film 101 textbooks commonly used
16 November 2006
Visual Studies Fine Arts Videos 2002-2003
advanced students' video projects online, from Univ of Toronto
cinelinks
links page from Cinetext: Film and Philosophy ejournal
THE JOY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
online book, 2006
15 November 2006
Film Experience Blog: The Vampire Blog-a-Thon
Oct. 31, 06; over fifty film bloggers contributed to the Vampire blogathon
Senses of Cinema
one of the best online film journals; exhaustive and regularly updated links page
Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links
documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US
14 November 2006
Word Circuits
"This is a place for poetry and fiction born to pixels rather than the page--writing that's digital down to its bones." An excellent resource with both online poetry, often Flash poetry, and other links.
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
"Introduction to Poetry" -- Ben McGhee
more video and text animation, simple and effective -- 53 sec.
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Forgetfulness. animated poem. text by Billy Collins
lyrical, good use of low res video on computer, experimental
13 November 2006
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
cin-o-matic
by 2 othersin an easily scannable, filterable, and sortable format, users are quickly able to see what movies may interest them
Guerrilla Filmmaking 101
the nitty-gritty of no-budget filmmaking, good on deflating romantic notions often held by first-timers
MIT--media in transition 05: the work of stories
much of the conference is available in av form or papers or abstracts.
EasyRGB - The first RGB and COLOR search engine on the Web!
by 11 otherspractical suggestions about real life colors matching computer generated RGBs.
12 November 2006
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
Derrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here
Free, Comprehensive Audio and Video Course
Television Production--A Free, Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production by Ron Whittaker, from cybercollege
CHRONOLOGY OF DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
useful for courses on history of documentary
Cinematic Terms - A FilmMaking Glossary
gives concrete applications to media making
11 November 2006
Literary Theory. Literary Criticism
very large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities
Scope - Institute of Film Studies journal
published by Univ of Nottingham
