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| Ken Burns on the "Ken Burns Effect" |
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Complete video at:
http://fora.tv/2007/01/04/iPhoto_and_the_Ken_
Burns_Effect
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns
discusses the "Ken Burns Effect" - the
technique of panning and zooming over still
photographs in movies - and how the technique
came to be named after him.
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Most critics consider Ken Burns to be the
best documentary filmmaker in the world.
Among his most notable productions were the
miniseries The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz.
Burns' documentaries have been nominated for
two Academy Awards and six of his
documentaries have been nominated for one or
more Emmy Awards.
The Civil War became the first documentary in
the world to gross over $100 million. Burns'
innovating style and techniques have become
an industry standard.
The Ken Burns effect was named after him and
is used in film editing, on most computer
screen savers, and in Apple Computer's iPhoto
and iMovie - Oxonian Society
Ken Burns has been making films for more than
thirty years. In 1981, Burns produced and
directed his first film for PBS, the Academy
Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge. His other
films include Huey Long; Thomas Hart Benton;
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; a
trilogy including The Civil War, Baseball,
and Jazz; Frank Lloyd Wright; Not For
Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Mark Twain; and
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of
Jack Johnson.Burns is currently producing and
directing a six-part film series on the
history of the National Parks which will air
on PBS in 2009. He is also working on a
history of Prohibition and an update to his
1994 epic Baseball. His current film, which
premieres in September on PBS, is The War
with a companion book he co-authored with
Geoffrey C. Ward entitled The War: An
Intimate History, 1941-1945.
Tags : documentary films movies filmmaking director directing editing photos narrator narration ken burns effect pbs foratv |
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Affichage : 4539
Durée : 276 s |
| Ken Burns' Jazz — Kind of Blue |
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The making of the 1959 Miles Davis album,
Kind of Blue, is summed up in this too short
part of The Adventure, the 9th episode of Ken
Burns' Jazz series.
For those who want more detailed information
about this sensational album, I recommend the
four-part Kind of Blue: Made in Heaven, also
found on YouTube:
1st http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sr5eXOrl1hY
2nd http://youtube.com/watch?v=IL_flZxPRhM
3rd http://youtube.com/watch?v=OxL9mgcFbWw
4th http://youtube.com/watch?v=bj3NpH6CRpQ
Let's not forget the article on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue
Tags : kind of blue miles davis ken burns jazz |
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Affichage : 26016
Durée : 245 s |
| Ken Burns | The War PBS |
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THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and
produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells
the story of the Second World War through the
personal accounts of a handful of men and
women from four quintessentially American
towns. The series explores the most intimate
human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in
history — a worldwide catastrophe that
touched the lives of every family on every
street in every town in America — and
demonstrates that in extraordinary times,
there are no ordinary lives.
Tags : Ken Burns PBS "World War II" Placebo Running Up That Hill |
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Affichage : 7349
Durée : 60 s |
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