Synopses & Reviews
Making Media takes the media production process and deconstructs it into its most basic components. Students will learn the basic concepts of media production: frame, sound, light, time, motion, sequencing, etc., and be able to apply them to any medium they choose. They will also become well grounded in the digital work environment and the tools required to produce media in the digital age. The companion Web site provides interactive exercises for each chapter, allowing students to explore the process of media production. The text is heavily illustrated and complete with sidebar discussions of pertinent issues.
*Prepares students to move with ease into any number of media disciplines - film, video, photography, audio, multimedia
*Includes Companion Website with interactive exercises http://booksite.focalpress.com/roberts-breslin/
*Highly illustrated throughout
Review
"The author does an admirable job of combining all aspects of traditional and new media in each chapter. The accompanying CD-ROM offers visual and audio examples of production design and is itself a good example of nonlinear programming in covering the concepts of storyboarding and releases, visual aesthetics, light quality, brightness and contrast, color mixing, color temperature, sound mixing, camera movements, sequencing of still images, and examples of persistence of movement and the phi phenomenon." - CHOICE
About the Author
Jan Roberts-Breslin is an Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in studio and field video production and media arts. She is also the Graduate Program Director at Emerson, responsible for coordinating the graduate curriculum and advising over a hundred masters students. She taught previously at Temple University and at Seton Hall University. For the past sixteen years, Jan has been a media artist and freelance producer/director of film, video, and interactive multimedia projects, including a feature film, documentaries, experimental work, and corporate productions. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Video Production from Temple University.
Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in studio and field video production and media arts; Graduate Program Director at Emerson, responsible for coordinating the graduate curriculum and advising over 100 Masters students. For the past 16 years, Jan has been a media artist and freelance producer/director.
Table of Contents
Content; Copyright; The Frame; Light; Sound; Time; Sound and Image; Movement and Depth; The Theory of Linear Structure; The Practice of Linear Structure; Nonlinear Structure; Approaches to Production and Distribution; Glossary