CI5472 Teaching Film, Television, and Media
Module 3: Film Techniques
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In working with films, there are a lot of useful on-line resources that provide students with on-line clips — largely in the form of trailers — as well as summaries of film reviews, and further information about individual films. One of the most important of these resources is The Internet Movie Database. |
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This site consists of a database of 260,000 film and television productions, including information about directors, filming locations, awards, and trailers, as well as the directors, actors, actresses, cinematographers, and producers involved in making films. In also includes a Photo Galleries Section with movie stills and celebrity photos, and more. Films can also be searched in terms of genres. One advantage of the IMDb over other similar sites is that you have choices in terms of viewing on-line trailers. You can choose between Windows Media Player, Real Player, or QuickTime in either 56/28k dial-up or 160k broadband. |
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For assistance in navigating and using the IMDb site: |
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Another useful site is Rottentomatoes.com, which provides ratings for films based on the percentage of positive reviews based on a cross-section of largely newspaper and journal film reviewers. |
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A similar rating site is ChecktheGrid; users can select the particular reviewers they want to include in their overall ratings. |
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Another site that builds on viewers own preferred tastes in films is Movielens. MovieLens uses “collaborative filtering” technology to make recommendations of films based on user ratings of preferred films. The more user ratings that are included in their database, the more valid the predications that a user will or will not enjoy a film. |
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Critics.com [compiles/combines ratings of 15 critics] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hollywood.com [major site with a lot of trailers, including full-screen trailers] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Open Directory Project [thousand of links on film] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Facets [DVD/video catalogue] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dvdreview.com [DVD reviews] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dvdcorner.net [DVD reviews] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shortbuzz [short films on line] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eveo [a streamed video site] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atom films [streamed short films and animation] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Defining Purposes for Editing Decisions: Creating Storyboards |
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Accessing On-line Films / Film Reviews / Ratings / Information |
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