Research on Video Direction

On Video Direction as an Application of the Study of Music Theory - paper

"Directing Audio and Video Recordings For DVD Productions" presentation at Georgia Music Educators Association in conjunction with the Technology in Music Education (TI:ME) Southern Regional conference January 25, 2007, in Savannah, Georgia.

"On Video Direction as an Application of the Study of Music Theory" presentation at the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI)'s National Conference, November 16, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Examples

• Requiem of Psalms (VI) unedited master shot, edited

• Desperate Measures by Robert Muczynski

Interviews with professionals involved with classical music video production

• Kirk Browning - director, Live From Lincoln Center
• Merrill Brockway - director
• Brian Large, director
• William Cosel - director
• Susan Erben - producer, Metropolitan Opera Presents

Herbert von Karajan was one of the first conductors to take advantage of the composition of shots in film to maximize the listener/viewer's experience. According to the Naxos Video Library website, he was the only major orchestral conductor to create film (and later video productions) at his own expense. "I am actually born too early."

©2005 Robert Willey