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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - AVIVA KEMPNER

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

AVIVA KEMPNER is a long time filmmaker whose works covered a broad range of issues, both domestic and international such as homelessness, civil rights and the Holocaust. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is one of her most noted works. She served as the documentary's writer, director and producer. The film went on to win many awards, including the Peabody Award and awards from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Kempner is also the founder of the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Ciesla Foundation, dedicated to producing and distributing films to educate the public on social issues of the past and present.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - CAREN CROSS

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

CAREN CROSS began her filmmaking career as writer/director of award winning documentary Lost and Found in Mexico. The film focuses on the reasons why U.S. citizens move to Mexico.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: FILM & TV - CHRISTIAN DANDREA

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

CHRISTIAN DANDREA is credited with co-developing a widely used energy bar for soldiers and civilians alike called SoldierFuel; an idea he came up with while working on HALO: Freefall Warriors, a documentary he created and executive produced for Discovery Communication. D'Andrea produced Searching for God in Iraq, a six-part documentary series examining the presence of religion and the role of chaplains in the U.S. war in Iraq.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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HOW TO MAKE IT IN FILM - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILMMAKER: CINEMATOGRAPHER - DENNIS BONI

A series of behind the scenes interviews with regional, national and international filmmakers, editors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers and many others who work in the film industry. From the roles of sound editors to assistant directors, scriptwriters to location managers, cinematographers to producers, webisode producers to film critics and documentary filmmakers to actors, they'll discover the role of each position and what it takes to Make It in the business.

DENNIS BONI is an award-winning cinematographer who has worked on such projects as the PBS series Journey to Planet Earth. A Steadicam operator for more than 20 years, Boni was one of the few cinematographers handpicked to be trained by Garret Brown, inventor of the Steadicam. He was nominated for National Emmy Awards, for his DP/Steadicam work on the Smithsonian project, Remembering Vietnam: The Wall at 25, and for Koppel Groups, Peoples Republic of Capitalism.


DVD / 2016 / 30 minutes

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FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES OF GENRE

Hosted by Jeffrey Hill and Mark A. Graves

Film genre, or the classification of film into categories is based upon designated characteristics that distinguish one film from another. Genre explores what characteristics indicate a film genre like horror, musical, Western and comedy and how viewers understand the story put before them. They remain a useful way to categorize and distinguish most films, so that audiences know what to expect. Most film critics agree on ten film genres: action-adventure, comedy, costume films, epics, horror, musical, science fiction and fantasy, suspense, war, and the western. This program discusses the following films and the genre of each - Angel and the Badman, The Road to Bali, Royal Wedding, My Man Godfrey and The Big Combo.


DVD / 2013 / 26 minutes

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HOLLYWOODS INSIDER SECRETS - MAKEUP & SPECIAL EFFECTS: CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD MAKEUP TECHNIQUES

Top Hollywood makeup artist Christina Rodriguez, demonstrates one of the most popular and requested looks on a set, the clean face. This program shows how to create a flawless complexion by highlighting the face to look natural as if the person has no makeup. Christina takes you through the transition from a clean face to an old school Hollywood look, layering makeup to create a classic look for red carpets including dramatic eyes, how to apply fake lashes, how to contour the face with shadows and apply powders that will photograph under heavy lighting. Color techniques are also shown, including a color wheel for concealing blemishes as well as the colors that should be used on both light and dark complexions. Techniques include: foundation and concealing for a clean look, natural application of eyes, blush and lipstick for a clean face, application of glamour features (shadows, fake lashes, classic lipstick) using shadows to contour the shape of the face, color technique for light and dark complexions.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 58 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: ANIMATION

This program looks at animation, a style of filmmaking that gained popularity during the silent era of the 1920s and has remained extremely popular from the 1930s to the present day. Animation still remains a labor-intensive and time-intensive process as the artists and crafts people behind contemporary animated programming are still essentially applying the same processes as the early animation pioneers - two frames per image, holds and cycles and synchronization. This program includes two practical animated tutorials as well as some classical animation from the early 1900s.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: CINEMATOGRAPHY

Cinematography looks at what a camera operator is responsible for and how they make the decisions to create the look the director desires. This segment will focus on cinematography, or camera work and how this tool helps in the creation of the story. The role of the camera operator, or cinematographer, can be highly artistic while simultaneously requiring significant scientific and technical knowledge to be performed well. From the birth of motion pictures in the 1890s to the talkies of the late 1920s, cinematography was of paramount importance to successful narrative, since in the absence of dialogue to record, footsteps or closing doors to anticipate, or music to incorporate, the camera could capture the moving image only. In the first decade of motion pictures, the role of the cinematographer or camera operator and director were one and the same, but as cinema evolved, the duties of the director and cinematographer diverged. In this program we review Academy Award winner, James Wong Howe, who pioneered dollying and handheld camera techniques as well as the use of unconventional light sources. We take a look at his 1938 film Algiers, which earned Howe his first Academy nomination for Best Cinematography, focusing on the moving camerawork.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

Documentary talks about some of the different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements, and people who create the magic that we call motion pictures. Todays program will talk about a style of filmmaking outside of the normal fiction or narrative films that we as audience members are used to seeing, that is, documentary filmmaking. With the birth of cinema in the 1890s, spearheaded by America's Thomas Edison and Frances Louis and Auguste Lumiere, filmmaking progressed in two directions. Edison brought his subjects before a stationary camera to his tarpaper-covered studio called the Black Maria built at West Orange, New Jersey partly because the camera required multiple people to move it. While Edison was bringing people to the Black Maria to have a pie, the Lumiere brothers created the cinematographe. The resulting camera mobility allowed people to go out into the world and both document events and project films. Included are a number of clips from classic documentary films. Features the 1934 documentary Song of Ceylon, 1935 British film Housing Problems, the 1936 film The Plow that Broke the Plainsand, 1938's film The River, 'Why We Fight' and the 1944 film, The Battle of San Pietro.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: EDITING

This program focus on editing and how this process helps tell the story in a motion picture. The editing process follows some simple steps: takes the raw footage from the camera after it is developed, select the shots and combines them into sequences which will themselves be combined to create an entire motion picture. Completing these steps sounds easy enough, but in reality, editing a film extends beyond arranging shots into a completed project. Deciding which shots to use and their length requires creativity and discernment. Editing is sometimes described as an invisible art, because if the editor performs their job well, the audience, never notice the cuts. We are simply engaged in the story. Editing discusses how a film is cut to create the story we see on the screen. This program features a long take, from the 1950 film Cyrano de Bergerac, Establishing shot, from the 1937 film A Star is Born, A point of view shot, when the camera replaces the eye of the character and we see exactly what the character sees - the opening of Naked Kiss from 1964 and cutting on action, from John Houston's 1954 film Beat the Devil.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: MISE-EN-SCENE

Mise-en-scene looks at how filmmakers make decisions about what is put before the camera. It includes costumes, props, set design, positioning of actors and much more. Mise en scene is a term that refers to all visual elements that appear within each frame of a motion picture. Without various features of mise en scene, a moving picture would consist of only a series of flickering black or light-infused frames, since even a colored screen would provide visual information that some might consider an element of mise en scene. A French phrase which translates roughly as placed on stage, Mise-en-scene is a broad concept often difficult to define for film because it only exists when considering a combination of elements within the frame or camera's eye. Basically, anything to be filmed the setting, the costumes and make-up, the movement, facial expression, and position of actors on screen, and some elements of lighting is considered mise en scene. The concept of mise en scene for film shares a lot with theater production in that props, sets and blocking of actors are all deliberately chosen for particular effects, although the physical space of the stage and theater often limit or dictate how mise en scene is perceived by an audience. Features the Western, Angel and the Badman, silent film, Caligari, costuming Cyrano de Bergerac and lighting (an air of mystery) Film Noir.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 28 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: SOUND

Sound investigates the various types of sound, how they are recorded, and how they are incorporated in a film. Besides the visuals in moving pictures, sound also contributes to part of those magical effects. This program will focus on sound design and how life can be breathed into a project through the use of carefully selected and carefully placed sounds. When we think about or talk about them, we can categorize all sounds into one of three categories: dialogue or voice, music, and sound effects. Sound effects can be sounds that occur naturally within the film itself or sounds that add to the overall impact that the film presents. Music is quite often not part of the film itself, but a musical track that adds to the mood of the film. Both music and sound effects are usually classified as either diegetic or non-diegetic sounds. Simply put, non-diegetic sounds are those which do not occur within the film, while diegetic sounds occur inside of the film's action. This program features diegetic and non-diegetic music in the 1950 film D-O-A Atmospheric sound known as foleying in Meet John Doe and manufactured sound elements (suspenseful mood music, a ray gun emission, the whirling of flying spaceships) in the 1953 Killers From Outer Space.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 27 minutes

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HOW HOLLYWOOD DOES IT - FILM HISTORY & TECHNIQUES: THE DIRECTING PROCESS

This program discuss three big jobs in motion picture making; screenwriting, producing and directing. The director is responsible for the overall feel and look of the film and decides on the use all of the other process of movie making - lighting, editing, mise en scene, cinematography and sound which ultimately reflect the directors control and vision. Explore films from major directors of cinema and learn how a script is formatted. Includes the opening scene from the Howard Hawks film His Girl Friday, Stanley Donen, the 1951 musical Royal Wedding, Vincente Minnelli, comedy film Fathers Little Dividend, Frank Capra, 1941 film, Meet John Doe, John Huston, 1953 film Beat The Devil and Michael Gordons 1950 film, Cyrano De Bergerac. Hosted by Jeffrey Hill and Mark A. Graves - Jeffrey Hill is an associate professor at Morehead State University, Department of Communication, Media and Leadership Studies. Dr. Mark Graves is an associate professor of English.

DVD / 2013 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 26 minutes

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: ADVANCED MOVIE PRODUCTION MODULE

This is movie making in action, teaching set etiquette, communication, decision-making, and real-life production, all while watching a full feature film being made. For 12 days, the crew of this film worked hard alongside motivated cast, a passionate director and a jovial producer. Watch this 19 section set for almost 13 hours of serious education, movie set stress and fun. You'll learn from series creator Rush Hamden as a cinematographer on the set, taking orders, getting the film made despite fatigue, illness and shortage of crew. This volume took two full years to complete. The AMP course includes a 65 page manual with scene by scene details for all the backup to make this module the cornerstone of your actual moviemaking success.

Includes: Prelight and Day One through Day 12, Pick Up Shots, Wrap & interviews with the Director and Producer. Plus invaluable 65 page scene by scene manual.


8 DVDs / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 13 hours

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: COMPOSITING MODULE - INCLUDING FULL HD EDITING FILE

This 23 part Digital Keying Guide teaches how to create believable Compositing images. It concentrates on Lighting the Green or Blue Screen Background, Lighting Foreground Plate and Subject, Matching Fore-to-Background, Camera Settings, Using Keying Hardware, Directing Actors, Keying in Post, Using Keying Software and more. Often you will be called upon to film a scene that is to be composited over a background requiring you to film the against a color (green or blue) screen, then remove that color in post and composite the scene onto the desired background. It sounds simple but is a very complicated procedure that goes beyond setting up actors against a green paper background. Covers planning, scripting, charting, accurate lighting, specific direction of actors and color-matched post compositing. This module will teach you lighting to post, how to set the height and angle of the background camera, match it to the foreground camera; teaches matching the color, direction and intensity of the subject's instruments with the background natural light; delves deeper with an action scene that teaches you how to blend action elements with proper direction for actor eyelines. The final part of the module teaches post production compositing and also contains a 3.5 GB full HD 1080i file with all the elements needed to build an action scene for practice by copying to a PC or MAC and dropping it into a compositing program.

4 DVDs / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 185 minutes

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: DIOPTERS & FILTERS

Focuses on Diopters, and Filters with Bill Turner from Schneider Optics. Learn how to modify a fixed-lens camera with a wider wide angle and a deeper telephoto. Teaches how to use Wide Angle Adapters and Converters, as well as Telephoto Converters and their differences. Learn how to film just one part of a face, like lips or eyes and how to make a penny fill the frame. Plus how to protect your camera from misuse of large converters. Using filters, learn how to darken a bright sky to get it within the dynamic range of HDV, but not affect the rest of the scene, how to see through reflections, how to darken the overall scene to allow a wider aperture for shallower depth of field.

Teaches: Wide and TeleConverters, Adapters, 4x4 Filters Polarizers, Graduated ND Filters, Color Filters and much more.


DVD / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 35 minutes

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: FOLLOW FOCUS DEVICES

Focuses on Follow Focus Devices with Karl Horn from Cinetech. Experienced shooters of Pro HD or SD Digital Cinema Camera rely on the focusing dial to create more dramatic transitions into actors or objects. Forget your wrist, learn to use follow focus wheels that reorient the direction of the focus dial to one that more easily fits the movement of the human body. They give you focus stops, so that you don't have to guess where your subject is. Just set up the A and B stops and go from A to B. No guess work. This comes in very handy in cameras that do not have numerical readouts for focus marks. Learn use of whips and extensions for focus pulling devices allowing you or a crew "focus puller" to pull focus from behind the camera so that you can just concentrate on panning and tilting the camera with the actor.

Teaches: Focus Pulling Techniques, Follow Focus Types, Single/Double Wheel, Whips and Extensions, Speed Cranks, Rear-Firing Configurations and much more.


DVD / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 11 minutes

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: GEAR GUIDE MODULE

This module teaches how to use all the Camera and Lighting gear to make movies successfully and get the most out of the gear you already own. Each program focuses on specific gear and techniques. 11 Program Components.

8 DVDs / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 517 minutes

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: LIGHTING MODULE

10 complete sections devoted to Pro lighting. Matching your lighting to fire-light, Christmas lights, uncorrected fluorescents, flashlights, candles with light and dark skin tones, work lamps, window lights, office interview, lighting chrome weapons, keying and groups of actors at a card table scene. When you finish the last DVD of this series you will never watch movies the same way again, knowing that the "Natural Sunset" light inside an apartment is actually tungsten light off a gold reflector and that there is a reason why directors move the actors in specific axes.

4 DVDs / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 258 minutes

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DIGITAL CINEMA FILMMAKERS TRAINING COURSE: MOVIE PRODUCTION MODULE

Screenwriting, Directing, Acting. Add foreground detail and make a dolly move really count, block your actors to match their eyelines, compose your shots to set the audience at ease (or not), and light the set with a minimum of fixtures. Then move onto the set and experience working through 13 different set layouts in detail.

6 DVDs / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 606 minutes

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