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A starting Point 2009
"Filmmakers use and expose peolpe's lives. This exploitation is often done for the best of motives, but it occassionally brings unforseen and dire consequences into the lives of filmed subjects. So the basic quesiton is, what is the duty of care or responsibility, owed by filmmakers to those they film?" Alan Rosenthal __New Challenges for Documentary

"__The time is ripe for rebuilding an agency that focuses on its core business, engages in transparent practice, and delivers features films that speak of us to an audience that wants to see them" John Barnett NZ On Film Nov. 2008

July 2008
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Channel Four Documentaries Website

New Info for Doco work http://www.wintec.ac.nz/applications/cut/main.htm Use this link for info on how to make a documentary, free music sites, and general permission for participants. I expect all of your finished films to be entered in this competition. Copy and paste forms from here so you can apply to APRA electronically and through snailmail.


 * Sound Links**

[] You can narrow your search with keywords and qualityŠ suggest you choose 16bit and 22050 Hz min for media projects. Thousands are available and most are free. [] good for soundtrack music stuff, can search by mood, instrument or type of music. Also has a sound effect section. I have been using [|www.freeplaymusic.com] for a few years now with my yr 13 media class and it works really well. Also, remind the students to put the www in the URL, otherwise they get directed to a different site. Freeplay music is clear in terms of use that school projects are covered, but there are restrictions about the use of the music in film festivals or competitions. See the relevant clause below: 2(d) Free Student Educational Use: Subject to your full compliance with the terms of this paragraph 2 (d) and full execution of a FPM license, FPM grants free master recording and synchronization rights to students, to the FPM Production Music Library, excluding the FPM Indie Artist and Sound Effects Library, when FPM music is used by students within a school or class assignment. The assignment must be part of student curriculum, must only be viewed or heard within the classroom, campus, on a school’s closed circuit television and/or public announcement system and shall be free from any charge or admission fee. Free Student Educational Use excludes the use by any school in extra-curricular activities including, without limitation, the use in clubs and the use of any kind in performance, non-broadcast multimedia, DVD duplication, distribution and/or broadcast on a public or educational access TV, cable or radio channel, web, blog, and podcast. For further clarification, of the conditions to qualify for Free Student Educational Use and to confirm qualifications for FPM.s free master recording and synchronization rights, please contact FPM at 212.974.0548 or [ mailto:Julie@freeplaymusic.com ]Julie@freeplaymusic.com or [ mailto:Licensing@Freeplaymusic.com ]Licensing@Freeplaymusic.com

[] Mostly aimed a Flash construction stuff but there is a section on SoundFX and Sound Loops =__Level 3__= =__NOIR__= = =

Film Noir. A fantastic documentary on Film Noir, from an American free source.
===Watch and take notes Annenberg Media Learner.org __[|]__===

__To watch on full screen hover over the small screen and right click.Go to zoom then full screen.__
__"**All movies express social values, or the erosion of these values, through the ways in which they depict both institutions and relations between people. Certain institutions are more revealing of social values and beliefs than others, and the family is perhaps one of the most significant of these institutions. For it is through the particular representations of the family in various movies that we are able to study the process whereby existing social relations are rendered acceptable and valid." - John Blaser**

Great noir site. Read the features and the articles. http://www.classicnoir.com/index.shtml

The femme fatale. Read with a circumspect eye. Great to use to consider the legacy of the genre and its shaping of women. http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol8is3/snyder.pdf__


 * Readings Scholarship**

Ian Fraser, Television and Cultural Identity: HYPERLINK "http://www.nzonair.govt.nz/images/media/about/fraser.pdf" __www.nzonair.govt.nz/images/media/about/fraser.pdf__

Media Watch Audio Streams HYPERLINK "http://admin.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/mediawatch" __http://admin.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/mediawatch__

News media ownership in New Zealand, Bill Rosenberg HYPERLINK "http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/publications/Miscellaneous/mediaown.pdf" __http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/publications/Miscellaneous/mediaown.pdf__

The Future of Media Regulation – is there one? Russell Brown and Stephen Price HYPERLINK "http://www.bsa.govt.nz/publications/BSA-FutureOfMediaRegulation.pdf" __http://www.bsa.govt.nz/publications/BSA-FutureOfMediaRegulation.pdf__

Report on the 2006 State of the News Media in America: HYPERLINK "[|http://www.stateofthemedia.org]" __[|http://www.stateofthemedia.org__] (Executive Summary: HYPERLINK "http://journalism.org/executivesummary.pdf"__ [|http://journalism.org/executivesummary.pdf__)]

Link to the Maori Television Website: HYPERLINK "http://www.maoritelevision.com/" __http://www.maoritelevision.com/__

Conference Paper “The Empowering Effect of Ethics” Annabel Schuler HYPERLINK http://www.jeanz.org.nz/Conference%202003%20Annabel%20Schuler.htm __http://www.jeanz.org.nz/Conference%202003%20Annabel%20Schuler.htm__

Scoop Article “Mourning the Loss of Objectivity” F. Al-Atraqchi HYPERLINK http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0212/S00124.htm __http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0212/S00124.htm__

Book ‘Reclaiming Journalism in New Zealand” HYPERLINK http://www.pjreview.info/issues/docs/09_1/09_03books-mcgregor.pdf __http://www.pjreview.info/issues/docs/09_1/09_03books-mcgregor.pdf__

Book “Understanding Journalism” Lynette Sheridan Burns HYPERLINK http://books.google.com/books?id=aohzQv4Cj94C&pg=PA1951&lpg=PA1951&dq=judy+mcgregor+on+ethical+journalism&sig=Y1uknK0zvZyeCY1QJKTcJuJ6fhM __http://books.google.com/books?id=aohzQv4Cj94C&pg=PA1951&lpg=PA1951&dq=judy+mcgregor+on+ethical+journalism&sig=Y1uknK0zvZyeCY1QJKTcJuJ6fhM__

New Zealand Press Council Annual Report, 2001 “What is News” HYPERLINK http://www.presscouncil.org.nz/articles/AR_what_is_news_ex.htm __http://www.presscouncil.org.nz/articles/AR_what_is_news_ex.htm__

The Human Rights Commission “The media and freedom of expression” HYPERLINK http://www.hrc.co.nz/report/chapters/chapter08/expression04.html#med __http://www.hrc.co.nz/report/chapters/chapter08/expression04.html#med__

__**NZ Film Industry News**__ A Blog devoted to the Industry. Look at BLack Sheep and Eagle vs Shark. A good source of articles and up and coming news events. http://www.filmnz.com/production-guide/finance-film.html

Check carefully. Huge update to the Large Budget grant Scheme. Effective as of 16 July 2007. http://www.filmnz.com/production-guide/finance-film.html Key ideas are what are the ramifications for these changes? Will they make a difference to films made in NZ? What effect or control will these changes exert on the industry?

Black magic is a great site for discussion and articles about the NZ film industry. Search the links as there are many. http://www.black-magic.co.nz/home/?p=515

Useful Links:


The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is a HUGE collection of movie information. We try to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web. We then do our best to present this information in a manner that is easy to search and access.

Direct Links to Films Watched in Class:

 * [|The Breakfast Club]
 * [|Rebel Without A Cause]
 * [|The Maltese Falcon]



This is a source of a whole lot of video clips made using moviemaker. I enjoyed viewing and then, of course, I wanted to know how they made each clip.



Great site for discussion, tutorials and links. Has FAQs about moviemaker and a heap about gremlins in capture cards. Very practical. I could follow all the computer jargon.



Huge range of material. More tutorials and again easy to follow



A great tutorial for Moviemaker. Dropdown menu and good graphics



Excellent site looking at the search for Cool amongst American teenagers. View the documentary online. Especially relevant for Level Genre Study.



Channel Four Documentaries Website