Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st October
*documentation*
original information
Audio workshop
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workshop
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Paul Munday |
making a
recording |
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Paul Munday provided an introduction to audio recording and editing using Audacity. He showed how samples could be montaged into new audio works, as well as demonstrating recording techniques and discussing different audio file formats.
class notes (PDF)
class notes - source (OpenOffice)
(distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
The workshop participants made their own sound pieces using a mixture of samples provided by Paul and their own recordings:
Ulla Schott's class project (OGG)
Ulla Schott's class project (MP3)
Video workshop
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Ana Kronschnabl
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Cinerella |
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Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings, from PluginCinema, presented their idea of 'Open Source' filmmaking. This includes not only the use of FOSS video tools but also an approach to distributing film works according to Open Source principles. They discussed examples such as the distribution of completed works via the web and filesharing systems, like Gnutella, and documentary projects which have released all their stock footage for other filmmakers to use.
In the afternoon, they gave an hands-on introduction to simple editing tools VirtualDub and Avidemux along with an overview of the more complex studio-production tool Cinelerra. This was followed by a discussion of various video codecs suitable for web distribution.
class notes for using Cinelerra (PDF)
They finished the day with a run-through of their PluginManifesto, which "aims to create a definitive framework that filmmakers can use to produce films specifically for the Internet, to work with the medium, to see technological limitations as a creative catalyst".
Online resources:
Web Filmmaking
http://www.plugincinema.com
http://www.pluginmanifesto.com (PluginCinema manifesto)
http://www.plugincinema.com/plugin/plugin_cinema/pffp.htm (free film project)
http://www.plugincinema.com/plugin/about_us/plugin_book.htm (plugincinema book)
VirtualDub
http://www.virtualdub.org (windows)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/avidemux (Linux/GNU)
Cinelerra
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 (main site)
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra/cinelerra.html (manual)
http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra (TWiki docs)
Others
http://www.xvid.org (xvid codec linux)
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec (xvid codec mac/windows)
http://www.projectmayo.com (Open DivX codec)
http://www.dynebolic.org (multimedia studio on a CD)
http://www.gnutella.com (file trade network)
