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Screenwriting with Spike Jonze, collaborators, and computerheads
After directing scripts by Charlie Kaufman for Being John Malkovich and Adaptation and then collaborating with Dave Eggers to write Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze went solo to pen the script...
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Sculpting in Time
The relationship between movies and time is integral to the medium’s essence: film itself is a succession of still images moving so quickly that we feel they are existing in front of us like our...
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More Lost Treasures
An important theme in the study of motion pictures, from the long gestation that led to the first projected movies to today’s dazzling array of effects and sensory enveloping platforms, is the...
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More Lost Treasures, Part 2
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the news of Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind, it is worth posting news of a contemporary movie that shows the fragile state of film and the highly...
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Media Business and Criminology
As noted in earlier blog posts on mediateacher.net, one of the the most popular veins of cross-curricular planning is between business and media literacy studies. The effect of economics on movies,...
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Photoshopped Values
Since it’s the end of the year, there are lists all over the place of the best, the worst, and all in between of the year’s movies, shows, games, news stories, vines, live feeds, and everything else...
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Snapchat 101
I get these questions all the time from fellow educators: “So how do I integrate Snapchat into my classes?” or “Can I write an entire curriculum based on Snapchat?” or “How do I fully integrate a...
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The Oscars are Here
This year’s Academy Awards nominees feature some movies that are so full of media literacy lessons – like Boyhood which was discussed in an earlier post, American Sniper which will be the subject of a...
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To Live Well and Prosper
A brief message to note that the flags are flying at half-mast at mediateacher.net in appreciation of the recently departed Leonard Nimoy. This fine actor whose career became indelibly intertwined...
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End of the Year Inspirations: Stromae
Perhaps your school year has already wound down or maybe you’re just about there. Here’s a brief post to share an artist with whom you may already be familiar — and if not, I think you are in for a...
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что именно этот фильм
Or, “what exactly is that movie?” – which was the title to an earlier mediateacher.net post, so we’ll be returning to that phrase again today to explore the ever-evolving 21st century media creation...
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Teaching Center!
Just because. (And, yes, if you want a lesson in nailing every nuance, gesture, cut, transition, and graphic in a parody — look no further. Key & Peele continue to hone their genius at...
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Of Cinesongs and Maverick Moviemakers
In an earlier post, I asked the question “What exactly is that movie?” in order to address forms of visual communication through a series of commercials. For those who may wish to explore the wilds of...
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The Stevens on the State of the Game
In an earlier post — Soderbergh Raids the Ark — I shared Steven Soderbergh’s very revealing experiment in which he turned Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark into a black & white silent...
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Women Pioneers of the Cinema: Agnès Varda
In earlier posts, a variety of exemplary female filmmakers have been discussed, from early pioneer Alice Guy Blaché to cinematographer Ellen Kuras to screenwriter Pamela Gray to casting director Marion...
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Shorting the Controversy
Throughout the media, there is lots of heated debate revolving around this year’s Academy Awards. Here’s an invitation to escape the controversies about the lack of skin-hued diversity among the...
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Damn, Daniel! Discuss. (See here for comparison / contrast: D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous )
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New Business and Business as Usual, Part 2
It is certainly no coincidence that books on virtually the same topic by two of the leading contemporary writers on digital media and communications — Robert McChesney and Douglas Rushkoff — are...
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Know your history, know your media literacy
Historians will often point out that societies reap what they sow. When one contemplates the look and feel of the ubiquitous connection most of our young people have to visual communications — social...
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Passionate Address to Young Mediamakers about Copyright
In earlier posts such as Fair Use Resources and Guidelines, issues of copyright laws and fair use guidelines for students and media creators have been addressed on mediateacher.net’s pages. In a...
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