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Cinematography: the Animated Way a Bibliography Plan Cinematography: The Animated Way A Bibliography Plan Sarah Rick LIS 601 Dr. Vanessa Irvin November 23, 2015 Sarah Rick Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................3 Search Strategy ..............................................................................................................................4 Instructions………………………………………………………………………………………4 Subject Headings………………………………………………………………………………..4 Call Numbers……………………………………………………………………………………4 Search Terms, Keywords, and Alternate Terms ...........................................................................4 Boolean Expressions .....................................................................................................................5 Natural Language (NL) Strings…………………………………………………………………5 Search Process……………………………………………………………………………………6 OPAC……………………………………………………………………………………………6 Databases………………………………………………………………………………………..6 Web Resources…………………………………………………………………………...……10 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………11 Reference List……………………………………………………………………………...……12 Appendix I……………………………………………………………………………………....14 Resources for the Cinematography of Animation……………………………………………..14 Resources for Disney ……………………………………………………………………….....15 Resources for Studio Ghibli……………………………………………………………..….….15 Appendix II………………………………………………………………………….………..…17 Abbreviation Key (Relevancy)………………………………………………………………...17 Abbreviation Key (Search Term Type)……………………………………………………......17 Sources and Matrixes………………………………………………………………………….17 2 Sarah Rick Introduction This bibliographic research plan focuses on the cinematography of animation. The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences describes Animation (Cinematography) as, “the illusion of movement created by means of an inanimate object” (“Animation (Cinematography)” 2009). This displays how animation cinematography is more than just the animation itself. It is creating the impression of a camera filming the animation. I decided for my subsections I would focus on two animation studios. These studios are the Disney Animated Studio and Studio Ghibli. I chose these subtopics because not only do I have an interest in them but they are some of the top animation studios in their country of origin and the world (citation). – say more about these studios. What do they do? Why are they the top studios? Educate your audience about your topic – or – engage in a discussion that shows that you have mastery of the subject. This bibliographic research plan was made specifically for University of Hawaii at Mānoa students in the art and art history department. The bibliographic research plan was also made for students in the animation program at the Academy for Creative Media, which is also a part of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. I chose these audiences because both of them will study different forms of art, including animation. By using this bibliography, they can get a better understanding of the cinematography of different animation studios. For the audience’s information, this bibliographic research plan uses APA citation style. All Boolean expressions (AND, BUT, and OR) and subject headings will be written in ALL CAPS. Natural language will be in all lower case. Truncated Boolean expressions will be represented with the truncation ending in *. Search terms will have the first letter of every word capitalized. 3 Sarah Rick Search Strategy Instructions In this bibliographic research plan I will use a coding key to identify the search terms, Boolean expressions, and strings. Search terms will have the first letter of every word capitalized. Subject Headings and Boolean expressions will have all the letters capitalized. Truncated Boolean expressions will have a * at the end of the word to show the truncation. For Natural Language strings all the letters will be lower cased. Subject Headings I researched my subject headings by looking in volume I of the 29th edition of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. I was searching for ANIMATION and when I found it I was pleased to see it was labeled as ANIMATION (CINEMATOGRAPHY). From this broad subject heading I was able to find subject headings that are in this specific field. Provided below are the subject headings I used: • ANIMATION (CINEMATOGRAPHY) • ANIMATION (CINEMATOGRAPHY) – JAPAN • ANIMATION (CINEMATOGRAPHY) –INSTUMENTS • ANIMATED FILMS • ANIMATION CELS • ANIMATORS Call Numbers I looked for Library of Congress call numbers that relate to cinematography of animation studios by viewing The Library of Congress Online Catalog. I browsed Class N FINE ARTS, Subclass NC DRAWING, DESIGN, AND ILLUSTRATION and Class T TECHNOLOGY, Subclass TR PHOTOGRAPHY. From these subsections there are topics that pertain specifically to the cinematography of animation studios. TR845-899 contains books on cinematography, specifically for motion pictures. NC1300-1766 contains information on pictorial humor, caricatures, and others on that subject, which includes animation. Search Terms, Keywords, and Alternate Terms I decided upon my search terms, keywords, and alternate terms by looking at the subject headings I had found earlier along with information I know based on the subject. I used Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki as search terms because they are the founders and directors of Studio Ghibli. • Studio Ghibli • Disney • Cinematography • Animation • Cartoon • Animation Cels • Hayao Miyazaki 4 Sarah Rick • Isao Takahata • Camera • Camera Shots • Camera Angles • Animators Boolean Expressions The * sign is used to truncate the word in the search. For example, veg* can result in sources that contain vegetation, vegetables, vegan, vegetarian, and other words that start with v-e-g. • Animation AND Cinematography • Animation AND Camera • Anim* AND Technology • Cinematography NOT (“Live Action” OR “Green Screen”) • Camera AND (shots OR angles) AND animation • Digital Cinematography AND Animation Natural Language (NL) Strings • animation studio’s techniques • how animators create cartoons • camera angles in animation • how animation camera shots are created 5 Sarah Rick Search Process OPAC OneSearch Mānoa This online catalog is designed to search for materials that are available to in the University of Hawaii libraries. OneSearch Mānoa provides basic and advance searching techniques with different search fields. When searching for information on Studio Ghibli I found that some of the results I would get are in Japanese. I think this is due to 2 reasons. The first is that Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio so many resources on the subject will be in Japanese. Another reason that the collection that OneSearch looks through has many sources in other languages as well, especially Asian languages. When searching for material for the topic in general what provided to be the best way to search was to use subject headings. By just typing in ANIMATION (CINEMATOGRAPHY) along gave me 2,539 results, most of them being highly relevant results. By adding ANIMATORS in this search as well not only narrowed down the results giving me more specific answers, but hardly any of them were irrelevant. Databases Art Source When working in this database I had an interesting occurrence. When looking up information on Studio Ghibli by searching Animation AND Studio Ghibli. I had not gotten a lot of results and most of them were in French. Since the articles were in French I could read them but since not everyone using this bibliography plan will understand French I could not use the results I found. When searching under Camera AND (shots OR angles) AND animation I got 53 results that had some useful articles but the most helpful part of this search was the search idea I found in the articles. One subject that was listed in a topic I found was Digital cinematography. Although looking this up on its own did not bring up useful results by pairing it up with Animation that gave me highly relevant results. Film & Television Literature Index When I first viewed the webpage for Film & Television Literature Index I noticed that it was hosted by EBSCOhost. This is the same platform that hosted Art Source. From this information I decided that the best way to search Film & Television Literature Index was to use a strategy like the one I used for Art Source. The major difference between the two websites, however, is that Film & Television Literature Index is an index. This means that the sources that are listed will not have a link to them or, if they do, it would direct the user to a different website. I started with the search Animation AND Camera. It gave me one more source option than Art Source did. Also like Art Source these resources were applicable to my topic. I also tried to use a subject heading in another search and I did find great results but not all of them were relevant to my topic. I tried to then subject search “Animation Cinematography” AND “Disney Films”. 6 Sarah Rick Although I only got 7 results the information in them pertained to my subtopic. I tried searching for results for Studio Ghibli but the results I got were not for cinematography. ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) This database specifically looks at modern and contemporary art. To search this website, I had to think of how animation and cinematography combine to form art. Since this is very specific and more of a sub category in art I decided to start my search with the subject heading ANIMATION (CINEMATOGRAPHY). From this search I gathered
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