PBS has put up the entire series of their new NOVA program, The Elegant Universe, online in Quicktime and RealVideo format. If good science documentaries are what you crave and you haven’t already seen the airing on television, I suggest you check out the program for an example of science documentary done well. The web site is located here and the videos are located here.
As an aside, the series was edited by former DER editor and filmmaker, Jonathan Sahula. Way to go Sahula!
Posted on October 30th, 2003 in General | Comments Off
Ron Dexter fills us in on his forty years of his professional film and video experience with advice and know-how at his site Rondexter.com. Go learn about using DV Cranes and dollies, how to build your own POV Rig, and how to shoot in and on sand, snow, bridge, rivers, and small planes.
Posted on October 27th, 2003 in General | Comments Off
George Avgerakis of Videography has a review of JVC’s JY-HD10 Camcorder that has a resolution of 1280×720 at 30 progressive frames per second. It’s a bargin HD video camera for the price of $4,000, but there are somethings things to keep in mind when it comes to it’s limitions. Avgerakis’ article help to understand those limitations.
For more information about the HD video format, check out Professor Kelin J. Kuhn’s introduciton article on HDTV here or the howstuffworks version here.
Posted on October 25th, 2003 in General | Comments Off
A Kalahari Family recently won “Best of Category: Issues of Justice & Human Rights” at the 14th Vermont International Film Festival. Congratulations John!
Posted on October 22nd, 2003 in DER News | Comments Off
Open Video Project:
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
Currently the library holds many science documentary videos from major governmental agencies including NASA, Bureau of Reclamation, and the National Archives.
Posted on October 13th, 2003 in General | Comments Off
Boston’s WBUR program Here and Now has a radio documentary program here on documentarians covering democratic political canidates. The labor unions hired the documentarians and plan to use their films to identify a candidate to support.
Some previous shows from Here and Now on documentaries on:
Posted on October 13th, 2003 in General | Comments Off
