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READING MATERIALS

You won’t be reading all of these — they’re here as either resources or assigned readings…

DOCUMENTARY + NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION

Readings | General: –»

• Tony Hiss and R. Murray Schafer | Essays
• Esther Leslie on W.B. | Telescoping the Microscopic Object: Benjamin The Collector
• How to Give and Receive Criticism by Scott Berkun
• Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia / Chapter 29
• Film Art: Narrative as a Formal System
• Script Elements & Sample Script
• Film Directing Shot by Shot: Storyboards
• Shot By Shot: Transitions
• Storyboard Template
• Film Art: The Shot, Mise-en-Scene & Cinematography
• Cinematic Storytelling: Excerpts
• Structuring The First Aesthetic Field: Lighting
• Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics; 4th ed. Herbert Zettl
• Understanding Comics, “The Six Steps” Scott McCloud
• Monty Python Script by Terry Gilliam
• Characterization List
• Making Documentary Films & Reality Videos, by Barry Hampe
• How Real Is Documentary, Really? (article, timeline), NY Times Magazine

 

Readings | Sound –»

• Cut & Paste: Collage and the Art of Sound
• John Cage: Silence
• Working with Sound by Michael Dougherty

 

Examples –»

• Quiet American by Xiong Mao (field recordings/documentary)
• Storycorps (historical documentation)
• Sonic Memorial (documentation, audio installation)
• Orson Well’s War of The Worlds: doc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol3NRuMOEGk&feature=related
• Ingmar Bergman’s Cries & Whispers (silence used to create tension & focus)
• Ben Burtt’s / Star Wars Sound Designer /http://www.filmsound.org/starwars/
• Dialtones (A Telesymphony), by Golan Levin
• I Am Sitting In a Room, By Alvin Lucier / http://vimeo.com/804979
• En Route by Joshua Churchill / http://www.joshuachurchill.com/0.html
• Jon Keith Brunelle / http://www.psychasthenia.com/media.shtml
• Scanner / http://www.scannerdot.com
• Ed Osborn / roving.net
• Radioqualia / www.radioqualia.net
• Iain Mott / www.reverberant.com/

 

EXPERIMENTAL

 

Readings –»

• Archeology of Compositing: Cinema by Lev Manovich
• Tempo and Tension by Maya Deren
• Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
• The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne
• The Animator’s Survival Kit by Richard Williams
• AIGA Journal by Karin Fong
• Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard
• Einstein’s Dreams Part 1 by Alan Lightman
• Einstein’s Dreams Part 2 by Alan Lightman
• Einstein’s Dreams Part 3 by Alan Lightman
• Graphic Storytelling / Part 1 by William Eisner
• Graphic Storytelling / Part 2 by William Eisner
• Film As Art by Rudolf Arnheim
• Technology by Mick Eaton and Colin MacCabe
• On the Impression of Reality in Cinema by Christian Metz
• Rhetoric of the Image by Roland Barthes
• The Space of Literature by Maurice Blanchot