A kaleidoscope of independent filmmaking in Canada — from documentary and animation to experimental and alternative genres. Each episode has a specific genre focus and integrates ideas put forward by filmmakers in interviews, with visual presentation of these ideas culled from their work. Filmmakers showcased include Richard Condi, Al Razuris, Ann Marie Fleming, David Rimmer, Brian Stockton, Richard Kerr and Ann Wheeler. (6 x 60:00)
Subjects: Media Studies
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Media and Aggression
Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social learning, script theory and susceptibility approaches can help understand and explain this evidence.
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FRONTLINE: The Merchants of Cool
Today’s teenagers have money and independence, their lives the object of obsessive focus by corporate America. FRONTLINE explores the culture of today’s teenagers and how they view themselves and their parents. Teenage tastes, attitudes, and aspirations are endlessly sampled by marketers to determine exactly what they want, while Hollywood and Madison Avenue tell a carefully tailored version of teenage life in movies, TV, music and advertising.
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How To Make Digital Stories
A digital story is a form of media that allows students to share their creative writing in a way that can be expressed through audio files, digital photos and imagery. It can be shared via email or downloadable link and can be stored safely on a CD, DVD, website, computer hard drive or other storage device. A perfect example of using multiliteracy in the classroom, creating a digital story is one of the ways in which technology is re-shaping the way students learn and relate to each other by allowing them to share their thoughts, ideas, images and music digitally with the world.
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A Marriage of Convenience – Sport and the Media
Sport and the media – is sport over-represented, or appropriately represented in the media? Does media coverage of sport have a positive or negative influence on our physical activity levels? Television, radio, newspapers, internet – sport has permeated culture here and abroad. All of this coverage of sport provides an excellent exposure of sport and the benefits of physical activity. This extensive coverage by the media of sport is promoting positive fitness attitudes and providing young and old alike with role models. But what of the negative aspects of media and sport? Trim and terrific bodies, violence, limited coverage of women’s sports and minor sports. Is it about selling a brand or encouraging physical fitness?
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Propaganda
This is a collection of archival footage from the propaganda films produced between 1916 and 1943, presented without additional commentary. Part 1 : World War One Propaganda films: Excerpts from Australian and German silent black and white films. Part 2 : World War Two Propaganda : British, German and Australian films.
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The Mechanics of Film Part One
Using the crew and behind the scenes footage of the film “Caravan”, this video explores the processes and crew roles essential to the making of a short film.
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The Mechanics of Film Part Two
The final process of merging the raw ingredients of the production phase and the hard work of the pre-production phase into a cohesive whole. Topics include editing, sound design, music composition, and marketing.
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Film as Text
Topics include narrative conventions used by filmmakers in telling a story; narration: Narrator or through the eyes of a character; the Plot- the techniques used to express the plot in film; manipulation of time; shot construction and design; lighting; point of view; props and set dressing; sound design and music; the theme: metaphors and visual motifs; the characters and their development through a film; casting; wardrobe and makeup; shot construction; metaphors; editing: the expression of plot and character; resolution: How and why a film is resolved in a certain way.
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The Construction of Meaning in Film
Film language relies on sound and vision to tell its story. With exclusive access to behind the scenes of the short film, “The Unique Oneness of Christian Savage”, this video looks at how meaning is constructed in film. Cinematography, art direction, sound design and editing are just some of the many elements which come together in the process of taking a film from script to screen.