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Hear A Closer Look, Listen to what you See Become A Better Storyteller: Your Film's Music Music can not only affect the way we feel but it can also change the way we see things. The incredible thing that music and film have in common is that they both have the power of eliciting strong emotions from those who hear or see them, whether it's fear, tranquility, rage, or deep, unrelenting sorrow. And you can harness this power to help inform your audience about different aspects of your story, from the tone to your protagonist's emotions. Music can be such a great and economical storyteller if you know how to access its narrative power. Hear to a closer look, listen to what you see, learn many ways on how to utilize music in your films. Citation: Articles : by Writer/Director V Renée via No Film School Video Survival Course: Getting Through Your First Video During this live event on September 20 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, Matt Pierce will talk with video creators to help yo...

In August 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Over half a million people came to a 600-acre farm to hear 32 acts (leading and emerging performers of the time) play over the course of four days (August 15-18). Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Janis Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were among the line-up . It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. Woodstock It was filmed by a director named Michael Wadleigh and a team that included a young Martin Scorsese and the editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who would later edit all of Scorsese's movies. They exposed 120 miles of film, shot with 16 cameras. Woodstock is known as one of the greatest happenings of all time and –perhaps- the most pivotal moment in music history. Woodstock is the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made. Woodstock 1969 Documen...

Profile: NHSMTA™, otherwise known as The National High School Musical Theatre Awards, was established in 2009 by Pittsburgh CLO and Nederlander Alliances, a division of The Nederlander Organization, to elevate the importance of theatre arts education in schools and reward excellence in student performance. The program impacts over 100,000 students annually who participate in high school musical theatre competitions sponsored by forty professional theatres throughout the US (get a list of participating theatres). The Jimmy® Award is named in honor of James M. Nederlander, legendary Broadway theatre owner and producer. 7 Days: Inside the Jimmy Awards  Photo by Mark Abramson for Vulture   Rewind: 2018 Jimmy Awards 'The obsession got up close and personal' , as the Jimmy Awards opened themselves up to allow for a visitor: Natalie Walker, former nightmare theater teen as documented in the Stagedoor Manor tell-all Theater Geek , current nightmare theater adult as documen...

'We believe history matters. History defines the way we live and think. Historical knowledge gives us the power to improve our world today. That’s why we’re bringing historical storytelling into the modern age through new narrative formats. We change the future by bringing the past closer to the present.'  — Future History Lab A mobile documentary asks: What if Martin Luther King, Eartha Kitt and others were on Facebook in 1968? In journalist Mikhail Zygar’s innovative series, you can watch the events of that momentous year come to vibrant life on your phone in weekly episodes. Imagine your phone screen getting hijacked by someone else’s — and it’s the phone belonging to astronaut Neil Armstrong. All of a sudden, you start receiving urgent texts from president Lyndon B. Johnson urging you to reach the moon ahead of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin. Sound alarming? Exciting? Now you can experience this scenario for yourself, thanks to Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar and...

 Cannes: Tina Turner Doc in Works from 'Man on Wire' Producers The film — heading to the market in Cannes — will be the first to tell the story of the iconic 'What's Love Got to do With It' singer. Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, the filmmakers behind the Emmy-winning LA 92 and Oscar-winning Undefeated, are reuniting with Lightbox, co-founded by Oscar-winning producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man, Whitney) and Emmy-winning producer Jonathan Chinn (LA 92, Fantastic Lies, Whitney) to tell the full story — for the first time — of the global icon and undisputed Queen of Rock and Roll. Altitude Film Sales is introducing the feature documentary Tina Turner (working title) to buyers at Cannes with Altitude Film Distribution acquiring distribution rights for the U.K. and Ireland. CAA has come on board to co-represent the domestic rights with Endeavor Content. The film goes into production this summer . Altitude has previously partnered with Lightbo...

Short Book Albums: 333SOUND 'We Can Save The Albums' Short books about albums started in 2003— right around the time the album was rumored to be cooling on a slab in the pop culture morgue, ready to be opened up and autopsied—there was no template for this kind of publication, no prescribed notions to fill. The books could take the shape of an essay, or a work of fiction, or even some odd hybrid of both. But whatever the format, these paperbacks are aggressively accessible: short, pocketsize, easily consumed during a few commutes. Perhaps more crucially, potentially anyone can write a 33 1/3 book: critics, academics, journalists, musicians, poets, assorted armchair commentators. Pitchfork: Article SMD With more than 100 titles to its name, Stephen M. Deusner highlights the 33 1/3 book series' finest moments. The 33 1/3 series has revealed a way that we can save the album: by dislocating it from history and letting a new generation develop their own canon. Recently a...

Film Threat’s mission: to champion up and coming indie filmmakers while giving a middle finger to the Hollywood establishment. Sometimes hilarity ensues. Threat began as a xeroxed fanzine started by Chris Gore and Andre Seewood in 1985. Only 500 copies of the first issue were printed and then distributed on the campus of Wayne State University on February 6th, 1985. It was on that campus that Gore and Seewood earned a reputation as disruptors by playing pranks on the film department and even going so far as to fake Gore’s death to promote a film screening. Seewood left after a year and Gore continued to grow the magazine beyond its xeroxed roots into a fully printed magazine. Chris Gore moved the magazine to Los Angeles in 1989 and opened an office at the Cherokee Building on Hollywood Boulevard. In 1991, Larry Flynt acquired Film Threat which then split into two magazines – Film Threat was owned by LFP and Gore continued to champion underground filmmakers in the pages of the ...