Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

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Here’s an urgent news story about the plight of the Burmese people. Please consider taking action to convince the powerful governments in China and Russia to cease protecting the tyrannical rule of the Myanmar/Burmese military.

YANGON, Myanmar — Mounting pro-democracy protests led by Buddhist monks against Myanmar’s military government erupted into serious […]

Recently, there was a brief spate of activity on the Community of Educators Network (COENET) about the correct usage of the words “lay” and “lie”. I thought it a bit humourous so I’m posting a portion of it here!
Pondering lay and lie in the loo …
which to champion and which to eschew!
If to lie […]

The rise of tapeless consumer camcorders can be challenging to sort through. If you’re shopping for a camcorder which should you get? Those that record on miniDVD-Rs? Those that have a small hard-drive which stores the video as files? How about the very small number which record to SD-cards, Compact Flash cards, […]

More photos of the renovation taken on Thursday (9-20-07).
Bathroom walls are finished
Counter is looking good!
The entry door way is framed!

Every now and then you will come across an on-line article that should be put down in “squiggles and spots of ink” which a clever reader will understand (to paraphrase W. T. Pooh). Leaving it in 0s and 1s on the uncertain Web consigns it to electronic limbo and makes sure only a small, […]

Frank Chindamo writes on his Mobile Phone Video website, Mobi—lize, that most film schools don’t teach how to monetize on students’ creativity. The secret to trapping the elusive “Income Stream” according to Mr. Chindamo is to make a series of very short, small films to be viewed over some network (like his company). […]

In the early days of film, the days of the Kinetoscope (1891-1900), films were very short — about 20 seconds or so — due to the limitations of the technology. Most of them were on the order of “spectacles”, that is, they showed strange and curious events, funny short gags, famous folks doing one-time “newsy” […]

More photos of the renovation taken on Thursday (9-13-07). By Friday even more was done!

Good work!

Nowadays everyone shoots video, whether from their mobile phones, solid state camcorders, miniDV Camcorders, old style video tape recorders … it’s all over the place. I call it VideoPangaea because it involves so many more people than ever before in the production of moving images. Everybody’s a videographer these days, which means it […]

Here is an intriguing piece on a short film shot in Africa about poverty in the Kenyan slum of Kibera in Nairobi that’s home to around one million people.
Kibera is named after the Nubian word for ‘jungle’, and the film about a teenager torn between crime and his passion for music has already won […]