ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students.
ScreenSite first emerged in 1994 during the Paleolithic era of the Web. In 2003 we mounted a major renovation. After a technical issue took us down in June 2006, we decided to overhaul the site once again.
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Frame Grabs and Shot Logging |
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Fair Use
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
Many months ago, I sent around a query asking everyone I could think of how best to log individual shots from a video source. Since then I've noodled around with a variety of solutions to my problem and come up with a near-perfect way to handle this.
I'll insert my findings into my original note below, but the executive summary is this:
1. Cinemetrics software counts the length of shots and the number of shots using a particular framing (i.e., "shot scale": close-up, medium shot, long shot, etc.). It's available, for free, from:
www.cinemetrics.lv
The software currently runs on Windows, principally, but there is also an online version and a Mac version is in development. To try it online:
www.cinemetrics.lv/cineonline.php
2. The VideoLAN VLC Media Player grabs frames and can be configured to record the timecode. Also free, it's available from:
www.videolan.org
VLC runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and other operating systems.
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ScreenLex Pronunciation Guide |
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Education
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
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A pronunciation guide for film/TV studies has just been released.
ScreenLex contains pronunciations of key phrases and people's names from the disciplines of film studies and television studies. Its items are available in three ways:
- As a podcast. Download them to your iPod or other mobile-audio device.
- Online: Listen to them online at screenlex.org using a Flash-based player.
- As a downloaded MP3 file.
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Professors Permitted to Break Copy-Protection on DVDs |
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Fair Use
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
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Finally, some good news on the fair-use front.
The U.S. Copyright Office has just announced six new exemptions to copyright law. One of them permits professors to break copy protection on DVDs in order to make compilations to use in class.
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Should Students Attend Class? |
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Education
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
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An interesting pedagogical discussion popped up on Slashdot (a discussion forum that focuses on tech news) yesterday.
A user posted the question, "If lecture podcasts are available, will students skip class?" The ensuing discussion -- mostly from college students -- had little in it about podcasts, but, rather, debated whether or not attendance is beneficial or necessary. For me, it was an interesting glimpse into how students view professors and the lecture process.
Podcasts of University Lectures?
Posted by Cliff on Monday September 04, @09:09PM
from the not-a-bad-idea dept.
theslashdot asks: "I'm working at a major university in the US, and have been charged with posting pod-casts of class lectures on the internet. The problem is whether or not posting the videos would allow students to skip class and just download the lecture, instead. . . . |
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