Encyclopedia of Media Arts
Last post I wrote that Composition is Everything. Well I need to expand that a little - Language is Everything. The secret to a dynamic, engaged career in professional media production is learnign to speak the language.
The great failing of software Help files and manuals is that for them to be any use at all you need to know the Name of the thing you're looking for or the process you need to employ. So if you didnt know that moving video clips aside on the timeline of you NLE was called a RIPPLE EDIT you have bugger all chance to find the answer to your question of how to move cips out of the way while insert another.
Is it any wonder that people not only dont read Manuals or Help files but rarely even think to even refer to them - a broad-based universal assumption that they are useless. They are useless if you dont spak the language, if you dont posess the vocabulary to drive further investigation and knowledge building.
Enter the
Encyclopedia PRO of Professional Film, Video and Multimedia
E-PRO is a superb searchable reference library of terms, ideas, concepts and technologies related to media production. The entries are detailed and very well thought out. Moreover, using the
Articles Index you can peruse the collection and begin to build you're vocabulary without having to specifically know the extact names of things.
E-PRO was developed in Canda by Golden Frame Entertainment and describes itself as "
A broad range of reference materials and data on Film, Video and Audio
Technologies, Motion Picture Production and Distribution, Entertainment
Industry, Business & Financing, Media Law, World Cinema and more.
The sections are hierarchically arranged by subject from broad to
specific." Which points firmly to the depth and breadth of its coverage. Its a superb resource and should sit on the BookMarks Bar of every filmmaker's web browser.
Posted at 12:00AM Aug 13, 2008
by Mike Jones in media education |
