Roundy-round? Here we go round the mulberry bush? “Round, like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel”? Not exactly. Roundy-round is a filming technique in which the camera moves slowly around the subject, giving the viewer a 360 degree look at what is being filmed. It’s a technique that Blake Edwards …
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The Quartz I’m thinking of is not the one I learned to identify in geology class, though. I’m thinking of a publication titled Pasticcio Quartz, in which “Quartz” stands for QUality ART Zine. (Pasticcio is defined as “A work or style produced by borrowing fragments, ingredients, or motifs from various sources; a potpourri.” That quotation …
P is for … Photography. When the camera is in the hands of a creative person such as the person I am interviewing today as a Wednesday Worthy, photography is indeed, an art. I have been privileged to know, online, the woman behind the fantastic website Stephanissima Creates for several years. She is a musician, …
Film editing is almost as much about what one takes out as what one leaves in. Sometimes a scene taken on its own is a wonderful scene, but just doesn’t add to the film as a whole. It doesn’t move the story along, it doesn’t make an important point, it just “is” — and as …
I’m not referring to the naming of characters here, although that is one of the joys of writing for me. Back in 1947, Viktor Lowenfeld, a professor of art education, delineated the stages in a child’s artistic development in his book Creative and Mental Growth. It says something to me that the 8th edition of …
It’s probably no surprise at all to readers who know me even slightly through this blog or my previous blog that I love musicals. The Sound of Music. Camelot. My Fair Lady. Annie Get Your Gun. The Music Man. Mame. Fiddler on the Roof. I also love a middle-grade novel called The Great American Mousical, …
My Love of music goes back a long way. When I was studying voice with the wonderful woman I spotlighted in D is for… Dorothy, she had me learn a song called “Songs My Mother Taught Me.” (That song is guaranteed to turn the hardest heart to mush.) Indeed, the songs my mother taught me …
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I don’t mean the keys and change you have in your jeans pocket. In music, “key” refers to where a song sits on the musical scale. Singing or playing something in a different key allows a melody to have the same melodic pattern, but be sung higher or lower than the original. It also provides …