Readings 2009
The textbook for the course is
Cohen, Hart, Salazar, Juan Francisco and Barkat Iqbal. Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices. Victoria: Oxford University Press, 2009
Other extremely useful books are
Rabiger, Michael. Directing the Documentary. Burlington:Focal Press, 2004
for documentary obviously and for tips on editing and designing a narration/voice over
And Mollison, Martha. Producing Videos: a Complete Guide. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2003
This is available as an ebook from the library, so you can look it up anytime.
The first two books are available in the high use section of the Physical Sciences Library just across the road from Building 78. So you can borrow them for a couple of hours and get access to the chapters set for the readings.
Week 1
Required Reading
Reading 1: Screen Media Arts: (Textbook) Chapter 2 on Narrative
Reading 2: Script Format
Reading 3: Proper Script Format
Very useful web site to glance through http://www.storysense.com/format.htm
Reading 3: Documentary Formats Beginning the First Draft: Alan Rosenthal
Very useful web site for documentary (but keep it simple) http://www.chicagomediaworks.com/2instructworks/3editing_doc/3editing_doctranscripts.html
Recommended Reading
A useful online exhibition website on Screen Australia for short films
Screen Media Arts Ch 3 Contemporary Genres
Week 2
Required Reading
Storyboard Jumpcuts and Crossing the Line
Recommended Reading
The Classic Hollywood Narrative System
Screen Media Arts Ch 6 Legal Issues in Media Production
Screen Media Arts Ch 15 Interfacing Digital Media Arts
Week 3:
Required Reading
Using Lighting Equipment (Martha Mollison)
Recommended Reading
Screen Media Arts Ch 12 The Documentary Screen
Lighting - (practical elements) (Martha Mollison)
Week 4:
Required Reading
Screen Media Arts Ch 7 The Production Process and Directing (Visual Style)
Recommended Reading
Cinematography (Film Art Bordwell and Thompson)
Week 5:
Required Reading
All the sound clips from the DVD of Screenmedia are very useful.
See Resources at left.
Boom and pistol grip miking, which mike and audio levels
Recommended Reading
crew roles and responsibilities
Preproduction (Martha Mollison)
Screen Media Arts: Ch 5 Preproduction
Useful website: Screen Australia
Audio Techniques (more comprehensive, longer article)
Week 6:
Required Reading
Ch 8 Screenmedia Editing
Overall Process of Digital Editing
Refnements of Editing This reading is useful for referring to counterpoint and
overlap editing referred to in the lecture
Recommended Reading
Patterns and Logics of Editing
Week 7:
Recommended Reading
An interesting link to a tutorial on guerrilla filmmaking by Robert Rodriguez provided by Andrew Dunne
The ten minute film school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UOa7tkByrw
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLxqNwc1oYU
Also
Check out some links to help you understand how Final Cut Pro works, provided by Jamie Maden
Overview reading:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_6_first_look_martin.html
Tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials/ : these give you an idea of what you can do and the terminology you
would use when looking for more tutorials.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html : great resource that gives both beginner and
advanced tutorials covering many of the FCS2 applications.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-
A bunch of different video tutorials that should help you find that feature you've been looking for.
Also all of the Final Cut Studio application manuals are installed digitally on all the machines. Just use the help menu
in the application you are using and you will get the complete manual as a PDF that you can search.H
Here is a tutorial for removing noise from your video
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/searchlist/9635.html
or if you are looking for video tutorials use Google video search
youtube also has a lot of tutorials that are short and effective.
Week 8:
Required Reading
Week 9:
Required Reading
Chapter 12 Screen Media Arts Distribution
Recommended Reading
Chapter 15: Screen Media Arts Digital Media
Week 10
Required Reading
Creative Commons Sites (see also Resources tab at left)
Recommended Reading
Chapter 17: Screen Media Arts Future Developments for Digital Media
Week 11
Recommended Reading
This is a helpful look at analysing films, written in very clear language. The section on "Media Culture and Ideology" will be useful for those who are dealing with difference of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or class in their videos.
Week 12
Recommended Reading
Chapter 11 Stadler, Jane, "The Crowded Screen: Transcultural Influences and New Directions in Visual Culture" in Screen Media: Analysing
Film and Television. Allen & Unwin: Crows Nest, 2008: 303-332. (This chapter analyses Quentin Tarantin's Kill Bill, post modern inflences and parody in cinema, in particular p. 318. It will be useful for all those who are using parody in their videos. There are multiple copies in the Social Science and Humanities Library).