Media Arts Educational Videos for Students

Violence & Television with George Gerbner: George Gerbner, communication scholar, theorist, teacher, poet, and the founder of cultivation theory, discusses his work which influenced four decades of research on violence and television.

Explore the entire process from first conceiving your masks through preparing and finishing each project.

Learn the secrets of how the award-winning Hollywood special effects artists make great looking latex masks & special effect props.

Hosted by Michael Berryman. This program breaks down serveral techniques that can be used to create a multitude of monsters and FX characters.

Watch as a group of talented artists work their magic behind-the-scenes to bring Chaneys (the great silent movie actor) characters to life. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Clown from He Who Gets Slapped, the Phantom and Chaney himself are all recreated in great artistic detail.

Ideal for Special Effects Artists & Makeup Enthusiasts. From the original Jack Pierce Tribute, this short production features a step-by-step demonstration featuring the makeup and application in creating the Frankenstein Monster.

Subjects Covered Include: Microphones, Input List of Stage Plots, Micing Up the Stage and Sound Check

This series teaches how to best mike, record and mix drums, guitars, pianos, horns, vocals, strings and more. Plus analog multi-track recording & multitrack recorders, tape editing & dozens of examples, animations & visuals showing expert recording skills.

Subjects Covered Include: Theater Sound, System Design, Readable Materials and Farwell

The History of Western Cinema. Out of a cloud of dust and across the silver screen we all sat enthralled as the American West came to life in the movies.

In this training series, nine of the worlds finest cinematographers share the wealth of their experience in a workshop setting as they guide you through a series of professional lighting problems both in studio and on location.

By Maria Altken. "A lively session on high comedy, with examples from Coward, Wilde, Sheridan and Cosgreve." - The London Sunday Times. This program reveals the spark that transforms a routine reading into a vibrant one in a scene from Private Lives, which by the time Aitken has finished with it, it has attained something close to brilliance.

By Simon Callow. "Taking scenes from The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh as the text, Callow directs a workshop of young actors and subjects them to his own rigorous and scrupulous appraisal."

By Janet Suzman. Totally and incisively in charge, her unscripted preamble is a dramatic lesson in itself; with all the right places to create a dramatic effect you can cut with a knife. Her dissertation on the difference between tragedy and comedy is masterly." - The London Sunday Times.

In this terrific 60-minute master class, Brian Cox covers the fine points of tragic acting. The London Times calls this video, "Full of common sense ... In the end, it is we actors who are on the spot ...

Karen Black, the Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner shares 40 years worth of insights into the craft of acting. This in-depth interview covers everything from perfecting regional accents to finding a characters inner needs

Shaun Mclaughlin, director of over 200 BBC radio plays, leads a master class at the Australian Radio, Film and Television School in the rehearsal and production of a short radio drama.

The Basic Radio Skills training series is geared for the radio beginner or for those wanting to improve their practical knowledge

A lively montage takes us through a typical radio day as six announcers on talk, news and music shows provide insights into the specific requirements of their formats and into their personal approaches to gathering, organizing and presenting material.

Five seasoned journalists present an in-depth view of radio news at work. Topics include news sources, item selection and scripting, preparation for broadcast, presentation skills, telephone interviews, field reports and more.

This program explores a wide range of styles and approaches for the live call-in show. A special instructional segment examines phone operation, delay systems and call dumping.

The specifics of writing for new and current affairs, commercial copyrighting and radio comedy writing are covered in detail. Specialists in each area lay out the basic requirements and share tricks of the trade.

Two of Americas most successful radio commercial producers, Bert Berdis and Alan Bartzman, discuss their approach to concept and development, copyrighting and directing for radio ads.

A straightforward presentation of the two basic audiotape editing techniques: splice editing and dub editing. Graphics and overlays make the procedures clear and examples of music and voice edits are performed.

This program introduces the radio novice to the operation of the hardware of a radio studio: console, microphones, telephone talkback, turntables, CD players, cart players, tape recorders, cassette decks, DAT recorders and more.