Category Archives: noises and silences

lights…camera…hardware store…kinkos…extension cords…

The weekend of July 23rd, some friends and I took part in the Detroit 48 Hour Film Contest. The contest is an international event taking place during the summer in 90 cities. The rules are pretty basic. On Friday the 23rd, all teams met the contest organizers in Detroit were each randomly drew a genre [...]
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beat to the punch

I’ve recently become obsessed with the San Francisco based duo Pomplamoose. I was perhaps a bit disheartened that someone was already doing something very much like that which I propose to do with my dissertation – and they do it so well. While the group makes money by selling original music online, the real gems [...]
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sound?

While preparing to kick off my dissertation project, I sought advice from people with a background in video or film.  I was confident I could handle the technical aspects of making film projects.  What I was looking for was the sage advice of an Obi-Wan to my Luke Skywalker – some overarching principles to guide [...]
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