Material media-​making in the digital age / Daniel Binns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Binns, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, Engalnd : Intellect, [2021]

Summary:

A journey through a variety of tools and technologies from vlogging to drone cinematography to considerations of time, editing, and sound design, Material Media-Making in the Digital Age offers professionals, scholars, and students alike the chance to re-think how they engage with new media technology, about media and its place in the world. 17 b/w illus.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Material Media- Making in the Digital Age

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of contents

List of Figures

Foreword: Cherish the Thought

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Maker, Material

The maker and their materials

The matter with media

What does it matter?

What's ahead...

Note

1 Hollis, My Smartphone and Me: Practical Lessons from Historic Avant-Garde Cinema

Boxes within boxes: Surface Tension

Emily Richardson: Cobra Mist (2008)

Lauren Cook: Handmade (2004) and Trans/Figure/Ground (2016)

Don't think: Do

Exercise 1A: Breaking (down) the moving image

Exercise 1B: Splitting sound and vision

2 Time I: From Clip to Continuity

Exercise 2A: Feeling the moment of image creation

Exercise 2B: The four facets of time

Notes

3 Time II: From Continuity to Fluidity

Exercise 3A: Shooting to cut

Exercise 3B: Cutting by frames

4 Sound: From Added-Value to Cohesion

Preamble

Perceiving sound

Sound according to Chion

Sonic subterfuge

An embodied approach

Experimentation

Exercise 4A: Start a sound library

Exercise 4B: Construct a contiguous soundscape

Exercise 4C: Shape an audio-visual experience

5 Fragments: The Remnants of Media Practice

Exercise 5A: Screengrabber

Exercise 5B: Moving photo fun

6 Messy Cinema: Casey Neistat and the Affordances of the Vlog

Exercise 6: Daily videos

7 The GIF: Silent but Digital

Silent cinema: Pure movement

From silent to GIF...

It's alive

Exercise 7A: Multi-shot silent storytelling

Exercise 7B: Single-frame story

8 A Purely Digital Form? Streams and Atmospheres

A corruption of form: Annihilation

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein and Anima

Loop the loop and the algorithmic director: Disrupting the flow.

Exercise 8A: Looper

Exercise 8B: Unforeseen connections

9 Dronopoetics: Telepresence and Aerial Cinematography

Unmanned aerial cinematography and Ivan Sen's Goldstone

I see, I fly...

Exercise 9A: Shifting perspectives

Exercise 9B: Editing with drone footage

Coda: Lessons from the Cutting-Room Floor

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789383508

1789383501

9781789383515

178938351X

OCLC:

1251447690