film

If you are teaching video or photography here are some good links about three point lighting:

Ryan is a gorgeous short film that pushes the traditional boundaries of documentary.

The last time I took my students to the American Museum of the Moving Image when I was teaching in New York, I got to be a docent. Apparently, we had come a little early and someone had called in a little sick, and through a variety of circumstances for which the museum was totally not responsible, they didn't have enough docents to accommodate our group. Well, I'd been through the museum every year for the last 6 with my students, and made frequent trips their on my own.

A final post on the Shanghai Student Film Festival and then I'm self-imposing a hiatus on posts about video projects. I have almost all of the winners of the fest uploaded to our new S2F2 YouTube Channel. The work you will see there was created by students grades 3-12 from 5 schools in Shanghai - Shanghai American School Puxi and Pudong, Shanghai Community International School, Concordia International School, Shanghai, and Dulwich College.

I'm going to do things a little backwards here, and start with the film that won our "Best in Fest" award, The Reverie by Natalie James, a high school senior at the Shanghai American School Pudong campus. Maybe I'm reading into it, but her video seems to capture that "stranger in a strange land" feeling that comes with expat life. Moreover, what strikes me is the way that feeling is built almost entirely through subtextual camera shots and editing.

Film and Video artists These Artists often get overlooked in a study of Art History, shifted at best to tangents and footnotes. However, as more emphasis is placed on integrating the medium of the 21st century the importance of looking at this genre becomes more apparent. Most of our interaction with the moving image is limited to fiction, non-fiction, and advertising - and so there is always some message or idea that the video or film serves. In this art form, however the viewer is invited to experience a moving image in a variety of new ways, from moving painting to installation.

As I scan some of Craig's recent postings at The Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet, I'm realizing that not only did I almost miss "Unintentional Film and Video Theme Week" here, I've just about missed "Unintentional Film and Video Theme Month". If you haven't looked recently, he's got everything from an informational video about Twitter to an old film of Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger.

...is already in full swing, and I've just noticed.  Between my posts about the IB film seminar and the great resources I found there, as well the unique Royksopp videos that Rey Rey found, it seems as if we've stumbled upon yet another... Unintentional Theme Week at the Revolution.

In the last post I was talking about some of the great resources that came to my attention during the course of the IB Film seminar.

This weekend left me both exhausted and inspired.  I just flew back from Hong Kong  yesterday after a three day seminar about how to teach the International Baccalaureate  Film class, which I will be starting at our High School next year.  The task is a bit daunting- it is a lot of work, both for the students and myself-  but its also a great opportunity to explore the medium of film through analysis, history, and production- and I'm very excited.