Online resources

Online resources contents

• European portals
  
• National Portals
  
• Lexica
  
• Journals
  
• Magazines
  
• events
  

European portals
European Film Awards

• Annual event in December in Berlin
  
• Archive 1988 - present

Music + Sound Awards

• UK, London based competition since 2011. From 2017 it will be a worldwide contest. Aimed at professionals working in advertising, film and television (branding and programming), the awards are open to anyone who is or has been involved in the creation, composition, sourcing, licensing, briefing and / or production of music and sound design for any visual media broadcast or released (supported by PRS).
  
• website

European Film Gateway

• The EFG Portal gives you quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.

EUscreen

• portal for European audiovisual heritage

European Network for Cinema and Media Studies

• NECS

European Sound Heritage

• europeanasounds.eu

National portals
Denmark

• Danish Film Institute

France

• La Cinémathèque française

Germany

• Deutsches Filminstitut
• Deutsche Filmakademie und Deutscher Film Preis (German Film Awards)

Italy

• CineCitta

Sweden

• Swedish Film Institute,
• The Swedish Film Database ,

United Kingdom

• The British Film Institute BFI
• BAFTSS - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies

Lexica

• Lexicon der Filmbegriffe , Hans Jürgen Wulff (editor), Kiel, DE
• Michel Chion Glossary, FR
• Begriffslexikon FILM der Universität Wien, AT

Journals
Film music

• Cahiers du Cinema (link)
• Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung, Kiel, DE
• Music, Sound and the Moving Image, Liverpool, UK
• Studies in European Cinema provides an outlet for research into any aspect of European cinema and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, celebrating the rich and diverse cultural heritage across the continent (access through University login), UK
• Studies in Documentary Film (Taylor & Francis)
• The New Soundtrack, Larry Sider (editor), Edinburgh, UK
• The Soundtrack, Estella Tincknell (editor), UK

Sound Design

• European Sound Studies Association ESSA
• Divergence, UK (Issue 2, June 2014 on Sound, Music, Image)
• Journal of Sonic Studies, Leiden, Netherlands (Vol 6, 2014, on sound design for media), NL
• SoundEffects (Denmark)
• Sound Studies, Michael Bull & Veit Erlmann (editors)

 
Events
Sound of Story, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK, annual (Dec) presentations and workshops with film composers and sound designers,

• 2014: Joakim Sundström, Stuart McCowan, Ray Beckett, Jocelyn Pook, Barnaby Smyth, Roly Porter, Stephen Dobbie, Anna Bertmark
  
• 2015: Chris Watson, Martin Stig Andersen, Nainita Desai, Barry Adamson, Blast Theory, Magz Hall, Glenn Freemantle
  

The School of Sound, London, UK, with annual symposia
Soundtrackcologne annual film music competition

Blogs

• Designing Sound - Art and technique of sound design blog
• filmsound.org - Learning space dedicated to the art of film sound design
  
• composer magazine - interviews with film composers by spitfire audio