Curated OER
Animation Pre-Production
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
University of California
Uc Berkeley School of Information: Info Sys 246: Multimedia Information
This is the course page for an introductory course on multimedia information systems. It looks at the history, theory, commercial and academic applications, the future of digital multimedia, and the production cycle, and shows students...
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Province of British Columbia
British Columbia Ministry of Ed: Drama 11 and 12: Film and Television [Pdf]
An outline for how to teach this BC drama course. In Film and Television 11 and 12, students gain practical experience in some of the major areas of the industry, including acting, scriptwriting, and production.
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Media History Digital Library: Technical Journals Collection (1916 1965)
A large collection of original journals that focus on the technology behind motion pictures, covering cinematography, photography, projection engineering, etc.
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University of Oregon: J333 Writing for Multimedia
A collection of resources for a course on writing for multimedia productions. Includes PowerPoints, documents, and links. The Syllabus section contains a course description and outline from the instructor. The course addresses topics...
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Ideas to Images: Sight Sound Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics, 7th Edition [Pdf]
Chapter 1 of the seventh edition of "Sight Sound Motion" by Herbert Zettl. It includes the table of contents, author information, the preface, and a brief prologue. The topic of this chapter is Applied Media Aesthetics. He talks about...
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Univ. Of Oregon: Writing for Multimedia: Storytelling: Image, Video, Audio [Ppt]
A PowerPoint presentation on how to communicate a message using image, video, and sound techniques as described by Herbert Zettl. Includes images and links to video examples.
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Video 101: Production 101
A complete course in film and video production. Divided into six sections - Editing, Shooting, Sound, Lighting, Lens, and Tech. Each section has a similar structure, beginning with a preface and with headings on each page (repeated in...
BBC
Bbc Blast: Film
Blast hosts competitions, interviews, message boards, tips and tools, showcases of student-created work, and similar content designed to further the creative aspirations of future filmmakers.
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Miami Dade College: Vic 1000 Visual Comm Lecture Notes Ch. 14, 17, 18 [Pdf]
These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) identifies the key points in chapters 14, 17, and 18. These chapters are about...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Cinema: How Are Hollywood Films Made?
Site takes you through the steps in making a film. The site also invites you to "Write your own dialogue for a scene or put yourself in a producer's shoes by managing the production of a film."
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Miami Dade College: Vic 1000 Visual Comm Lecture: Storyboard Guidelines [Pdf]
These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) summarizes Zettl's guidelines for creating storyboards. It lists the main...
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Miami Dade College: Vic 1000 Visual Comm Lecture Notes Chapters 4 and 5 [Pdf]
These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) identifies the key points in chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 looks at the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Adapting Dickens: From Page to Screen
Students focus on the opening scene of the Great Expectations film to examine the process of adapting the novel by Charles Dickens for the screen. Students compare and contrast the film and the original text to consider the strengths of...
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Museum of the Moving Image: Interview With Tim Burton
A conversation with film director Tim Burton, from a lecture series sponsored by the museum. Click on the appropriate link to access the interview in audio format or with a text transcript.
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Discovery Room Tips: Think Like a Filmmaker [Pdf]
Learn about the roles of director, cinematographer, and screenwriter in the filmmaking process. Includes templates for making film-production props--director's bullhorn, cinematographer's storyboards, and a scene clapper--so that you can...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Film and Television Word Bank [Pdf]
A glossary of special terms, such as camera angle and wide shot, used in the production of films and television programs.
New York Times
New York Times: Comically Dead
The artist Carlos Grangel discusses his character designs for the stop-motion animated film "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride."
New York Times
New York Times: Feats of Clay
Watch this short commentary about the character development of the people and creatures from the claymation film "Wallace and Gromit Includes images of how the clay characters were made.
New York Times
New York Times: Anatomy of a Scene: Michael Bay on "The Island"
Michael Bay describes his approach to storyboarding an action sequence in the movie "The Island." Includes actual captioned storyboards from the production and video of the finished scene.
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Applied Media Aesthetics Multimedia
This is a weekly blog kept by a student to explain what was being studied in a course on applied media aesthetics, the focus of Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." The student discusses and summarizes Zettl's ideas from various...
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Elements of Cinema: Diegetic and Non Diegetic Sound
A blog entry that explains the difference between diegetic sound in film (sound with an obvious, often visible source) and non-diegetic sound (where the source is not present). Includes a quote from Herbert Zettl. There is also a short...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Television Performance Techniques Module 6
A slideshow based on Herbert Zettl's "Television Production Handbook" that explains techniques that one needs to be aware of when performing in front of a television camera. Discusses questions to ask the director regarding how the...
Senses Of Cinema
Senses of Cinema: Don Siegel
Learn about Siegel's 49 year film directing career and the great movies he added to the all-time greats list.