Methods and tools for audiovisual and digital production

Ethnographic Collection as a Tool for Media Education

Learning to listen in order to learn to see: a method of gathering speech radically different from journalism.

Ethnographic collection offers a powerful alternative to journalistic interviewing. Rather than confirming what we think we already know, it opens us to the discovery of worlds that are foreign to us. Here is a practical guide, informed by field (…)

Don’t Film People, Film With People

Practical Method for Creating Quality Institutional Films.

Institutional films, short informational videos, educational documentaries, promotional videos, etc., require a specific approach, halfway between technical rigor and creative flexibility. Preparation: Anticipating to Better ImproviseScripting (…)

Mediathemes magazine: “Technologies and contemporary uses of moving images”

Short techno-sociological history of cinema.

Moving images seem so natural and omnipresent that we are sometimes not very aware that they are in fact intrinsically linked to very concrete technologies, which have a strong impact on their content, more than we want to believe. For example, (…)

Mediathemes magazine: “Making a good projection in a library”

Practical and methodological sheet.

What motivates someone to come and see a film being screened in a media library, at a time when all or almost all films are easily available on the internet, including on the platforms of certain media libraries? On the one hand, the desire for an (…)

Create a DCP for theatrical screening

Tutorial for a professional practice

The DCP (Digital Cinema Package), is the “digital file format” specific to projection in cinemas (since the disappearance of 35mm film copies in 2012). It is an international technical standard. Here is a summary of the best practices for (…)

Create lightweight, high-quality video files

Reduce the size of a video file while maintaining the best possible quality. Guide for Handbrake free software.Broadcasting video, whether on your computer, telephone, television, on the web, in a theatre or cinema, is the most common and (…)

Mindmapping

What mindmapping is and how to use it as a professional tool. Quick synthesis. Mindmap, heuristic map or mental map?A mindmap (in english), heuristic map or mental map (in french) is a tree of words and images, created by hand or with (…)

Moore’s Law

An empirical law of computing that has more impact than we imagine on professional audiovisual practices. Gordon MooreGordon Moore, a chemist by training, is one of the co-founders of the company Intel, manufacturing microprocessors that equip (…)

Best practices for putting videos online

How to put a video online? What are the technical, patrimonial, practical, legal issues? Methodological tools for a professional and structured approach to video on the web.The concepts and methodologies presented in this article, although (…)

BL VIDEO CMS v0.1 : mini video streaming platform

Mini platform for automatic display of video files online in your website.By Benoît Labourdette. Version 0.1 to July 22, 2018. Technical preamble on online videoIt is often mistakenly believed that video platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo or (…)