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Imagining the story

from Transom, Rob Rosenthal
http://transom.org/?p=21127

Home movie and home audio archives on screen

The Association of Moving Image Archivists is holding their 2011 conference in Austin and they’re inviting the public to celebrate the moving image with free screenings at Austin’s only historic picture palace, the Paramount Theatre.
Free to the Public

 Saturday, November 19th

1:00pm - Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives
Approx. 90 min
Dramatic, funny, poignant and even strange, Amateur Night presents 16 amateur films from the collections of American film archives. Featuring films by average Joes alongside notables like Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon, animator Helen Hill and Smokey Bear, Amateur Night adds to the images archival audio, commentaries from family members, and newly-recorded music.

See the whole line up:
http://www.austintheatre.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=27981

Other things to watch/listen, mentioned today

32 short films about Glenn Gould
a great film, most relevant scenes are
Truck Stop
and The Idea of North
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkxkGuGSoXw&feature=related

Touch the Sound, a sound journey with percussionist Evelyn Glennie, part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkxkGuGSoXw&feature=related
it goes through to part 9, I think.

Christine Sun Kim short film

 What we watched today.
http://vimeo.com/31083172

also see her website
http://christinesunkim.com/

Beatboxer Scores Silent Movie

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/jason-singh-drifters/

Some more to explore: audio slideshows

Liz O Baylen
http://framework.latimes.com/who-we-are/liz-o-baylen/

NYT Benazir Bhutto feature
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20071227_BHUTTO_FEATURE/

and, what I've been trying to show you guys for two weeks, and what we'll hopefully get to eventually.
La Jetee, part 1 of 2 (click through list for the rest)
Essentially a sci-fi fiction audio slideshow.  Canonical experimental work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTFzA5HsIbs&feature=related

Sound map how-to

Found a great sound map primer with easy to use software, freeware.

http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/blog_comments/1326/

Finally!

questions for Amy O'Leary

Was there an "inciting incident" that made you want to get into multimedia production? Something that inspired you to make the switch from radio to something different?

Do you think news will evolve over time to favor these multimedia pieces instead of just typical news casts, text and video clips that stand alone, etc.

Do you have a rule of thumb in regard to music use in your pieces?

I've found in my own work that people seem to be more comfortable being recorded rather than photographed or videotaped, does the introduction of photography ever change the way your interviews go? Does it change the way you conduct the project if they are uncomfortable with photography?

Questions for Amy O'Leary

1. You mention how important it is to convey emotion and authenticity in your audio pieces. Are there certain ideas you look for to express these two concepts?

2. What would you say is the single most important skill that separates the amateurs from the broadcast professionals?

3. One of the most common nebulous areas today in media seems to be the Internet. What do you believe is the most effective form of grabbing and keeping peoples attention in this constantly stimulating medium?