Filmmaking is an audio-visual discipline,
so whether we are analyzing a film or
making our own, we will need learning
materials that are not only from a
textbook but are also visual and
auditory. Some people will say that if we
want to be a filmmaker we don't need to
go to film school and we can learn
everything from the internet and
hands-on experience. Communities and
websites like, 'nofilmschool.com' can
support this idea and we can even access
materials from previous movies.
Take for instance like the screenplay of
'Hannibal' from a free database like
IMSDB[.com]. However, because websites like these
are free,
the content is usually contributed by a
volunteer there may be little or no
oversight and checking the sources so
these may not be the most credible way
of gaining information. Resources from
academic institutions is a way for
students to gain trusted information and
even though there's probably great
advice from other filmmakers on the
internet that is free, when we are
student using resources paid by our
school, we can be assured that those
materials were from legitimate
publishers and authors not only have
experience in the field but their ideas
have been organized, thorough, or refuted
by editors through the rigorous
publishing process. Whether or not we go
to film school, we can still take some
classes at a local community college and
still be a film student. So by using
these reputable resources from
publishers, film associations and
organizations, we are acting as a film
student who is information competent. In
this video we'll briefly talk about how
to find resources for film students at
LBCC, partner institutions, like, CSULB,
resources in the local community (the
Long Beach Public Library) and some film
associations, like, the Academy of Motion
Pictures of Arts and Sciences.
Now, let's take a look at Long Beach City College's
LAC campus library.
Let's just see what books on [the subject] film we can
find at this location.
From looking at the catalog, we search
with 'film' as a subject and we limit the
search to the library at the LAC
location and in the format of 'printed
books' and we can see we have 350 results.
We can see the first record, a book
called, 'Light and Film' has a call letter
starting with 'TR'. The Library of
Congress classifies books with the call
letters starting with 'TR' to be in the
subject of Photography. The second and
third records, books called 'American
Silent Film' and 'Film Encyclopedia', have
the call numbers 'PN 1993', which
respectively, under the Library of
Congress classification system, is the
subject 'Motion Pictures'. So, let's go to
the 'PN' stacks, here at the library. After
I found the 'Film Encyclopedia', I stumbled
upon a book on 'Star Trek' costumes, sets
and prop designs in the 'Motion Picture'
section 'PN 1993'. So feel free to browse
around, especially if you're stumped and
need to find research topics.
This, here, is the 'Light and Film' book in
the Photography section in 'TR'.
Cinematography and Screenwriting are
also relevant subjects to look up. Now,
let's say we're taking a film class that
required thinking critically about a
certain film, its influences or maybe how
it affected people at the time of its
release.
Now, let's consider Francis Ford Coppola's
'Bram Stoker's Dracula'. Coppola was
highly inspired by Murnau's 'Nosferatu',
which, many critics, today, claimed to be a
'classic' and highly influential film. That
may be the case upon looking back, but,
maybe I want to research how people
reacted to 'Nosferatu' in the
1920's. Well, let's gather some
basic knowledge about 'Nosferatu' from
imdb.com and we can see that it was
released in 1922. The New York Times was
definitely one of the most popular
periodicals in the world, so I'm feeling
very confident that we'll find a review
of 'Nosferatu'.
But, it looks like they don't have
anything for 1922. I looked at Wikipedia
and read that it was released in America
seven years later, in 1929. Now, I found
the article released June 4th 1929 and
was surprised to see that the movie
had pretty negative reviews, where the
author said, 'the background looks like
cardboard cutouts, [...] not scary, [and] puts you
to sleep. Now, was this merely just the
opinion of one person or was there
something about the culture of that era
of when the film was released that could
possibly lead people to think this way?
If you wanted to do some research on
that era we can find that old review and
look at the surrounding articles and
advertisements and try to get an idea of
what was going on at that time. Therefore,
considering the movie, in context of its
time.
Well, the article, as presented online,
only says the date but without reading
the whole newspaper we can find out the
page and section by looking it up in the
'New York Times Index'. The 'New York Times
Index' is a book that helps us find an
article and it is organized by date and
subject. Now, let's go to the catalog and
type 'b, 8, colon, reference' in the keyword
so the search engine will pull up
results found in the reference section.
The title will be the 'New York Times
Index'. Even though it's a book we still
have to select the format 'Journal or
Magazine'. As you can see from the record,
we can find this index in the LAC
reference collection under the call
numbers 'AI' which is for indexes. We pull
out the 'New York Times Index' book of the
correct year and month, then we searched
the subject and look under, 'Motion
Pictures' for 'Nosferatu'. We find 'Motion
Pictures', but instead, we are redirected
to look under, 'Moving Pictures'. We find
the entry for 'Nosferatu' and we can
confirm the article was in June 4th
1929.
And now, we also discovered that we can
find it on page 29 section 3. Since it
takes up a lot of room in the library to
store newspapers since nineteen
twenty-nine, we have micro films that
compact and consolidate sets of newspapers
and is in the format that makes
the content easier to preserve. Just open
the drawer, find the correct film roll and
follow the instructions on how to load
the roll and operate the machine. So we
found our review of 'Nosferatu' and we can
see what other movies came out at that
time,
current events and advertisements; all
these things that show what was
culturally popular in that era. And from
further research, in this style, on
whatever films we may study, we now know
how to pull up original resources to
help us think and write critically about
films.
As mentioned earlier, film is an
audio-visual discipline, and sometimes,
watching a movie from beginning to end
and reading about it may not be enough
while we read about a film being deconstructed.
We might also have a look at
photographic movie stills to understand
what the author is trying to say.
So not only can we look at books that
have pictures and diagrams but our
library has plenty of magazines, too. Let's
go back to the online catalog and type
'film' as a keyword and change the format
to 'Journal or Magazine'. LBCC has access to
27 magazines from selected issues 'Film
& History', for example, is a journal that
can be accessed online, which is a
subscription our school pays for. This
article didn't have any examples that
needed photographic stills so let's just
browse the other magazine, 'Film Quarterly'
at this library location. I pulled out an
issue and opened it to an article about the
movie 'The Dark Knight', that, especially,
talks about the many faces of the
character villain, the Joker. Included in
the article were many photographs that
were important to understanding the
article's content. Now, what if we wanted
to learn more about the technical
aspects of filmmaking, like, seeling
leading about how equipment is used. A
fellow colleague recommended that I
check out an issue of 'American
Cinematographer'. However, LBCC, at this
moment, does not carry it. Well,
Upon searching for it, in the online
catalog, the nearby university, CSULB
(or Cal State Long Beach), carry
selected issues. Not only is CSULB's
library accessible to its current
students, alumni, and other members of the
community, they also allow selected local
community colleges, and LBCC is included
to have access, as well. In order to get a
library card from CSULB, we go to the
circulation desk and provide our name,
address, phone number, email address,
LBCC college services card,
a driver's license or ID card and social
security number. After they input our
information in their system will be
ready to check out materials and have
access to their database. Now, let's look
for 'American Cinematographer' which will
be on the lower level, so I grabbed an
issue that shows the behind-the-scenes
photos of 'The Force Awakens'. And just
like it was important to look at
advertisements in an old newspaper when
we were researching 'Nosferatu', the
advertisements shown in this magazine
can give us some idea of what types of
filming technology could have been
popular around this time.
CSULB also carries magazines on
Screenwriting, too. And, of course, CSULB
also has their own section of film books
in the stacks with a call number 'PN 1993',
like, where I found this older book
on making 16 millimeter films. To find
'Motion Picture Scripts' go to 'PN 1997'
stacks and to find 'Television
Scripts' go to the 'PN 1992' stacks. Also,
CSULB has what is called
'Special Collections' on the third floor.
Film students might probably be
interested in the 'MGM music collections',
which, includes several hundred music
scores, including some original film
scores, and the 'William Yates Collection'
which consists of television scripts,
production manuals from various shows,
and Walt Disney Productions.
If we still can't find what we're
looking for at LBCC and Cal State Long
Beach's library, we can also try
searching for books about film at our
local Long Beach Public Library branch.
You don't have to be a student to access
this information but i'm including the
Long Beach Public Library because they
have a lot of free resources for student
filmmakers on their homepage. We can
search for materials in 'Encore', their
search engine that combines their
library catalog and databases of images
and articles. In the search field, we can
type 'Film' or in this case 'filmmaking' and
at least 100 records will appear. We can
also yield more results from entering
other terms related to film, such as,
'Cinematography' and 'Screenwriting'. Also
the main branch, in downtown Long Beach,
has a section called, The Studio, that
houses many filmmaking books with the 'PN
1993 to1997' call numbers, as well as, being
a workplace for filmmakers with
computers for film and photo editing. And
another great resource paid by the Long
Beach Public Library is their
subscription to lynda.com. To access the
service, will have to enter our library
card number and library card pin when
the request form appears. lynda.com is a
website that has many tutorials taught
by professionals in their industries for
student filmmakers lynda.com will have
many classes on subjects, such as,
'cinematography', 'lighting techniques',
'storytelling' and 'camera operation', just
to name a few.
We can even read the biography of the
instructor and see that they not only
have experience in the field but they
have the certification to teach a course
on that particular subject. Now, if you
want to look at original copies of
production materials from movies the
Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and
Sciences has the Margaret Herrick
library in Los Angeles and it's a great
resource for filmmakers. The library is
open to the public, but,
their Special Collections can only be
viewed by appointment by professionals
in the film industry, qualified
researchers, or students. Before making a
trip out to LA you can search the
records online and plan your visit.
For example you can look at advertising
notes from 'Amistad', storyboards from
'Apollo 13', costume sketches from 'The
Theory of Everything', title sequence
sketches from '55 days at Peking',
continuity notes from 'Apocalypse Now'.
From reading a little bit about this,
they probably made notes like this
because film crews often shoot scenes
out of sequence, so these notes in
particular, include the timeline of the
deterioration of the boats and you can
see how the production crews carefully
pay attention to details.
There's also set blueprints from 'Blade
Runner' and the spaceship plans with 'Star
Wars', so if you are film student you can
get access to free resources at your
school local library and film
associations. Apart from academically
studying films,
you can also learn while you're watching
films at your leisure. LBCC and Cal State
Long Beach and the library have DVDs you
can rent, watch a lot of critically
acclaimed films or films you like and
take notes. And as we explored earlier
regarding some critiques and reviews, we
learned that opinions about movies
change over time. So, make the movie you
want to make while you hone your skills at
school.
Don't wait until you have expensive gear
because now you have a way to access
free, credible knowledge about movies and
movie making. You can even pick up your
smartphone and start filming today!
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