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New Wine in Old Bottles: “Films without Celluloid” and Making the Most of the Spaces You’ve Got
- 1. New Wine inOld Bottles: “Films without Celluloid” + Making the Most of the Spaces You’ve Got Andy Horbal University of Maryland The Innovative Library Classroom May 12, 2015
- 2. A Brief Historyof Library Media Services
- 3. The Problems • Currentspaces not ideal for multimedia production instruction • Designed for media consumption, not production • No instruction lab • Not enough cameras to go around • No money for new equipment or construction
- 4. Assets • Plenty ofsoftware options • Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, etc. • Expertise • Film Studies/Media Resources Librarian • Full-time Multimedia Production Specialist • Enthusiasm!
- 5. “Films without Celluloid” Movieposter for Intolerance (1916) in public domain. Picture of scissors retrieved from http://pixabay.com/en/scissors-isolated-white-background-213700/ + used according to the terms of a CC0 (public domain) license. Picture of Lev Kuleshov (1925) found on p.81 of Lev Kuleshov: Fifty Years in Film (Raduga Publishers, 1987) + used according to 17 USC § 107.
- 6. Lessons • You don’tneed a camera to plan a film shoot • You don’t need a camera to experiment with filmmaking • Experimentation is the key to media literacy
- 7. What We Did 12 3 4
- 8. Benefits • Active learning! •Shifts focus to core media literacy concepts • Less pressure to produce a polished finished product • Production software = means to an end
- 9. Applications Imaged retrieved fromhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Video_Camera.JPG + used according to the terms of a CC0 (public domain) license
- 10. Contact Andy Horbal Head ofLearning Commons 1101 McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-9227 ahorbal@umd.edu http://www.slideshare.net/horbal125/new-wine-in- old-bottles
Editor's Notes
- #3 Instruction history focused on finding materials in collection Mandate to move “from being containers for information toward platforms for learning”
- #7 Media literacy = defined by ACRL as “a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media”
- #8 Show a short film clip (Psycho as example) Hand out paper versions of the same clip (one page for each shot) Exercise which varies by class a. Tell a different story using these same shots b. Tell the same story using 1/2 or 1/3 the number of shots b. Storyboarding exercise: what additional info would you have need to *shoot* this scene? (camera placement, movement, etc.) 4. “Film festival” 5. Generally followed by group production or post-production work, time permitting
- #9 Drawbacks = If there *is* a media production assignment, must be supplemented with one-on-one support
- #10 What’s your “camera”?