Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Welcome

Welcome to T-273 Media Program Design. I look forward to getting to know you this semester and seeing your work.

Please create your personal blog and post your bio and a self-portrait. Your self-portrait should
 show your personality. Write a biographical statement about yourself and your relationship to media. Answer the questions below or develop your own media statement:

What are your favorite movies, TV shows, directors and/or music?
If you could make any kind of media without restrictions, what would it be?
What are your goals  - what do you want to do when you graduate?
Why are you interested in making media?

Post your blog URL to the comments of this post.

Monday, November 7, 2016

Narrative Storytelling

Script Basics

Acts
Most scripts breakdown into 3 acts. 
               Beginning - set up the story
               Middle - create the conflict
               End - resolve the conflict

Plot Points
Key events that change or greatly complicate the action, and keep the story moving forward in a new direction.
                      Opening Scene/ Life Balance
                      Catalyst/ Big Event
                      Climax/ Resolution
Scenes
A dramatic unit that defines the setting in which the action takes place. It tells whether a scene is interior or exterior, the location and time.
INT. - Bedroom - Morning


Beats
Markers for changes in character relationships and story situations within a scene.


Sunday, April 3, 2016

Crash

"Crash" (2004, Best Picture Oscar) written & directed by Paul Haggis



Monday, February 2, 2015

Video Clips

Follow this link to IU Box. Download the video clips and use for a practice edit.

IU Box - Video Clips

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Emotion Video Examples

Anger


Love & Grief


Joy


Relaxation


Fear & Abandonment


Desire & Repulsion


Love & Infatuation


Tranquility

DreamF - Focus from Adam Joy on Vimeo.

Anxiety

The Monster Inside from sydney bailey on Vimeo.

They Might Be Giants Music Video Contest


ANNOUNCING THE "ERASE" VIDEO CONTEST!

BLACK FRANCIS OF THE PIXIES TO JUDGE!
They Might Be Giants’ Dial-A-Song project is sponsoring its first video contest for the song "ERASE." To help raise awareness of this great song we're going to have a video contest open to all video people, film people and generally visually-minded people who are open to the challenge. After these three amazing winning videos for the "AM I AWAKE?" video contest, the new winners will be in good company, but the bar is high indeed.
These are the rules: Originality a must. Brilliance encouraged.
DEADLINE IS APRIL 7th. There will be 3 winners. $1000 cash prize to each winner. All three winning videos will be posted on
TMBG's www.DialASong.com and on TMBG's YouTube channel
Here’s the songhttp://dialasong.com/songs/erase
WHAT WE'D SUGGEST TO ANYONE FOR ANY VIDEO:
Poetry, not prose. 
If there is a story, have an ending.
Don’t feel compelled to illustrate the lyric, but use the lyric as a springboard for your concept.
If you do illustrate the words, figure out a way to avoid doing it at the moment they are sung — the see/say can feel dumpy.
It can work many ways: beautiful, startling, bold, stylish, contemporary, psychedelic, mind-bending. 
Transparency effects are nice, motion graphics can be exciting. 
Live action, animation, multi-media -- anything is possible!
Express YOURSELF in your favorite medium.
If there is any humor we would suggest it should be the deadest of the deadpan.
The topic should not be John and John, and representations of the band are discouraged.
All imagery must be original. Incorporating copyrighted images will disqualify your work
HOW IT'S JUDGED
All submissions must be uploaded in HD on Vimeo.com with password protection before the contest deadline.
You must then send us a message via email to videocontest@tmbg.com and be sure to include a direct link and 
a password along with your full name, email address, and phone number (strictly for contact purposes should
you be chosen as the winner -- we promise not to telemarket our t-shirt collection to you).  
All judging will be done by the great Judge Black Francis of the Pixies.
You can check the rest of the "Am I Awake" finalists at https://vimeo.com/album/2847837

Camera & Audio Tutorials

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Resource for actors

Here is a link to Mid-America Filmmakers. If you are trying to reach actors through them fill out the form as early as you can.

http://www.midamericafilmmakers.org/casting-calls/

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Music and Sound Effects

Creative Commons is a great resource for finding music, photos, video clips and more. The work is not copyright free but each piece has a different licensing agreement for how the material can be used and manipulated. If you use Creative Commons, make sure you read the details for each creative property you are going to use, follow their licensing agreement and make proper attributions.



Crestfallen is the music of IUSB student Brady Small along with his musical partner from Detroit. He has kindly given permission to IUSB students to use his music for class projects. If you use his music please give him credit and send him a link to your work.