editing at Brave New Films

Production/Editorial Reel

2008-10-31T09:31:24Z

I cut this reel (combining my editorial and production work on commercials, music videos, viral marketing, and network upfronts) for a specific job I applied for at Sony. The Track is by Sony Artist, Cake, and is entitled Rock & Roll Lifestyle.
Shot List: www.agathefay.com

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Ken Burns on the "Ken Burns Effect"

2008-10-29T03:30:05Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discusses the "Ken Burns Effect" - the technique of panning and zooming over still photographs in movies - and how the technique came to be named after him.

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Most critics consider Ken Burns to be the best documentary filmmaker in the world. Among his most notable productions were the miniseries The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz.

Burns' documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards and six of his documentaries have been nominated for one or more Emmy Awards.

The Civil War became the first documentary in the world to gross over $100 million. Burns' innovating style and techniques have become an industry standard.

The Ken Burns effect was named after him and is used in film editing, on most computer screen savers, and in Apple Computer's iPhoto and iMovie - Oxonian Society

Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. In 1981, Burns produced and directed his first film for PBS, the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge. His other films include Huey Long; Thomas Hart Benton; Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; a trilogy including The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz; Frank Lloyd Wright; Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Mark Twain; and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.Burns is currently producing and directing a six-part film series on the history of the National Parks which will air on PBS in 2009. He is also working on a history of Prohibition and an update to his 1994 epic Baseball. His current film, which premieres in September on PBS, is The War with a companion book he co-authored with Geoffrey C. Ward entitled The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945.

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On Music in Film - Ken Burns

2008-10-27T15:31:14Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Celebrated documentary filmmaker Ken Burns gives his take on the use of music in movies.

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Ken Burns' most recent documentary film project, The War, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of more than 40 men and women from four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - who experienced and helped to win the most extraordinary war in history.

Woven largely from their memories, the narrative unfolds as the war unfolded - month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt.

The film series explores the most intimate human dimensions of a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America demonstrating that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

From Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps, the companion book to this fall 2007 PBS series, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, includes all the iconic events as well as those of prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and those who struggled simply to keep families together while their men were shipped off - NYPL

Burns is currently producing and directing a six-part film series on the history of the National Parks which will air on PBS in 2009. He is also working on a history of Prohibition and an update to his 1994 epic Baseball.

His current film, which premieres in September on PBS, is The War with a companion book he co-authored with Geoffrey C. Ward entitled The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945.

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Tutorial 1 | How to download YouTube and web videos

2008-11-21T18:42:38Z

This tutorial explains how to properly install the software to download files from YouTube, and how to convert them for an eased edition in any editing software, so more people can produce some videos in tune with defending the Islamic Republic of Iran and Islam in general.

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Does the Internet Need More Editors?

2008-10-23T21:29:21Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Wikipedia co-creator Jimmy Wales debates internet cultural critic Andrew Keen on the usefulness of the "wiki" model.

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Web 2.0: Amateur Hour or Mass-ive Knowledge? A debate with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and author Andrew Keen.

In today's self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion can post a video on YouTube, change an entry on Wikipedia or publish reviews on Yelp, we increasingly turn to the collective intelligence of large numbers of people.

Should we rely on the "wisdom of the crowds," trusting that they are smarter than the expert few? Or is Web 2.0 weakening traditional media to the point where we only have opinion and chaos? - The Commonwealth Club of California

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama) is the founder, board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He is also the co-founder, along with Angela Beesley, of the for-profit company Wikia, Inc.

Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley author, broadcaster and entrepreneur whose provocative book Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture was recently acclaimed by The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani as "shrewdly argued" and written "with acuity and passion."

Chronicle, a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition and co-host of BioTech Nation on NPR. He has been a special correspondent and producer for ABC's Nightline and 20/20, and a producer for Discovery Television. He is a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNow!. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic, Fortune and MIT Technology Review, and was a longtime correspondent for Life. He also writes for Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Outside, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post Book World, and The New York Times, among others. He contributes to the Dialogues column for Discover.

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2008-10-18T03:30:44Z

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Fox News vs. CNN vs. WWE

2008-10-31T15:32:58Z

www.illdoctrine.com how CNN finally proved once and for all that TV news is faker than professional wrestling.

(In the same week CNN also did the same dirty work on Nancy Pelosi: www.talkingpointsmemo.com )

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Web 2.0 Panel Discussion - Does the "Wiki" Model Work?

2008-10-25T21:30:10Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

A panel of internet cultural critics debates the successes and failures of "Web 2.0," using Wikipedia and its popular "wiki" model as an example.

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"The Cult of the Amateur" with speakers Andrew Keen and Ori Brafman. Mary Hodder moderates.

Andrew Keen is the author of the book, "The Cult of the Amateur: How the Democratization of the Digital World is Assaulting Our Economy, Our Culture, and Our Values." He is the founder and former CEO of Audiocafe.com and is considered a leading contemporary critic of the internet. Andrew is currently the Founder and Chief Executive of afterTV LLC.

Mary Hodder is an information architect and interaction designer for several web service companies with social media sites. She works with companies in open source, photo sharing and blog aggregation, was at Technorati, and recently completed a survey of the current state of research and development in academia in the area of New Media for the American Press Institute. She is a blogger at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy).

Ori Brafman is the co-author of the book "The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations." Born in Israel and raised in Texas, Ori Brafman has been a lifelong entrepreneur. Ori holds a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

When he was still in college, he co-founded Vegan Action, which successfully launched a network with thirty-six national and international chapters. He brought vegan foods into numerous college dining halls. Ori co-founded Global Peace Networks, which catalyzed a network of CEOs working on conflict resolution and economic development in Africa and the Middle East.

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