Storyboarding Noir: Image, Memory, and Personal Style: Ran Blake on Film

Name: Storyboarding Noir: Image, Memory, and Personal Style: Ran Blake on Film
Author: Blake, Ran
ISBN: 9798218103217

Blake, Ran

Language: English

Published by Third Stream Associates, 2022

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Title: Storyboarding Noir: Image, Memory, and Personal Style: Ran Blake on Film
Author: Blake, Ran
Publisher: Third Stream Associates
Publication year: 2022
Condition: As New
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9798218103217

Storyboarding Noir offers a new perspective on the rich and varied history of film noir by demonstrating how storyboarding, a film-making technique, has been adapted by legendary pianist and MacArthur Genius Award winner Ran Blake. The book offers a method, when combined with intensive, long-term training of aural memory, that encourages students and professional musicians to create original and distinctive work. Woven throughout is a discussion of the creative process that is relevant to artistic endeavors in general.

For moviegoers, Storyboarding Noir explores classic films from the Golden Age of Noir, including Laura, Night of the Hunter, Pickup on South Street, The Asphalt Jungle, Shadow of a Doubt. We also venture into more recent masterpieces such as The Pawnbroker, Taxi Driver, and two films by French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. In addition, a chapter called "Short Takes" recommends 35 lesser-known films for future viewing.

As employed by film directors, a storyboard is a set of drawings that guides the actual shooting of the film; it stands between the script and the finished work. Scene by scene, a storyboard depicts the movement of the camera, the positioning of actors, the framing and timing of the shot, the sound effects: in short, all the technical elements that bring a film to life.

Ran Blake discovered years ago that a less restrictive form of a storyboarding, adapted to music and open to improvisation, would be useful in his practice by linking aural elements with the visual. He maps out the journey, plots where specific scenes, characterizations, chords land in the composition, and translates this into sound on the piano. This approach makes it possible to move beyond the spine of the piece without abandoning it, perhaps leaving it for a while, improvising, then finding the way back to what he originally planned.

We do not attempt to define film noir. What belongs to the genre, what does not, whether noir is a genre, or merely a style, where it begins and ends - these topics are better left to those of a more academic bent. The subject has been pummeled to near-death, not unlike the beating Alan Ladd endures in The Glass Key. But like Alan, it survives to take another punch - though perhaps just barely, saved by the bell, from two influential French critics who claimed: "We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel."

Our oversimplifying is, well, simpler: we encourage watching and re-watching these films, not to probe the semiotics of cinema or the phenomenology of the viewing experience, but mostly to catch details - visual, thematic, narrative, musical - missed on a first see-through. Hopefully we've teased out enough of these elements to send viewers back to look again, and appreciate how marvelously-crafted many of

these works are. Beyond the craft, we encourage readers to think how we carry these stories around, speculate on what might happen

in a character's afterlife, make up subplots out of camera range to fill in gaps or inconsistencies - and search for Black Pony, the brand of whiskey Dana Andrews drinks in Laura. Will he and Gene Tierney stay together? Will young Charlie be happy with Jack Graham, post-Shadow of a Doubt? Will Travis Bickle kill again? These extracurricular conjectures seem to us the natural outgrowth of a love affair with the movies - the legitimate offspring of this marriage we enter into, like inveterate starry-eyed newlyweds, repeat first-time offenders, each time the camera rolls

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Ran Blake has created a unique niche in contemporary music as an artist and educator, in a career that now spans six decades, With a characteristic mix of classical, blues, gospel, popular standards, film noir, and world music traditions, Blake's singular sound has earned a dedicated following all over the world. His legacy as a pianist and composer includes 50 albums on some of the world's top jazz labels. He regularly offers concerts and masterclasses throughout the United States and Europe, where he performs to sold-out audiences. His achievement has been recognized by numerous awards, including a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 1988 and two Guggenheim grants.Born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1935, Blake grew up in Suffield, Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Bard College (1960) and later studied at the Lenox School of Jazz with John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, and Bill Russo. During those years he became close to Thelonious Monk and his family. Gunther Schuller, then President of New England Conservatory, invited him to join the faculty in 1967; when the Department of Third Stream Studies was founded five years later (now known as the Contemporary Improvisation Department), Ran served as chair from 1973 to 2005. His teaching focuses on aural training, long-term musical memory, and film noir. In 2010 his book Primacy of the Ear was published; it brings together insights from decades of teaching and performing. Shimmering Shadows: The Music and Life of Ran Blake, by Janet McFadden Ran Blake has created a unique niche in contemporary music as an artist and educator, in a career that now spans six decades, With a characteristic mix of classical, blues, gospel, popular standards, film noir, and world music traditions, Blake's singular sound has earned a dedicated following all over the world. His legacy as a pianist and composer includes 50 albums on some of the world's top jazz labels. He regularly offers concerts and masterclasses throughout the United States and Europe, where he performs to sold-out audiences. His achievement has been recognized by numerous awards, including a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 1988 and two Guggenheim grants.Born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1935, Blake grew up in Suffield, Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Bard College (1960) and later studied at the Lenox School of Jazz with John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, Max Roach, and Bill Russo. During those years he became close to Thelonious Monk and his family, and also studied with Mary Lou Williams. Gunther Schuller, then President of New England Conservatory, invited him to join the faculty in 1967; five years later, Schuller founded the Department of Third Stream Studies (now known as the Contemporary Improvisation), and appointed him chair; he headed the department from 1973 to 2005. Ran Blake's teaching focuses on aural training, long-term musical memory, and film noir. In 2010, he published Primacy of the Ear, which brings together insights from decades of teaching and performing. His biography, Shimmering Shadows: The Music and Life of Ran Blake, by Janet McFadden, appeared in November 2022.

Gard Hartmann was born in Boston, graduated from Dartmouth College (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A.), and has had a varied career as a writer, teacher, and community organizer for over thirty years. He served as New England Conservatory's Director of Institutional Support and was a member of the President's Executive Committee throughout the school's seven-year, $115 million capital campaign.

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