MLA format?

Question

I need to document a video in MLA format for an english paper, is it possible? Should I say the title, the person who made it, followed by the year?
Examples and opinions welcome :)
thankyou

Answer 1

Please try this link - this is a MLA format sheet for video.

http://info.poland-hs.u29.k12.me.us/citingsources/video.doc

Answer 2

The following citation style is a slightly adapted version of the MLA style sheet.


Film and Video


Include the following elements in the following order.

Video or Film Title (underlined; alternatively, italics)


Series Title (in parentheses, underlined; alternatively, in italics)

Director/Filmmaker OR Personal Producer OR Corporate/Institutional Producer.

Key Actors or other Key Performers.

Version, release, or other distinguishing information, if appropriate

Format. (e.g. Film, Video, DVD, Videodisc, etc. Note: indicate the format you watched, NOT the format of the original work).

Studio Name OR Production Company OR Distributor.

Original Production/Release Date. (separated from the Studio/Production Company/Distributor by a comma)

Examples:


Citizen Kane. Dir. Orson Welles. Perfs. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton. Film. RKO Radio Pictures, 1941.

À Bout de Souffle (Breathless). Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. Perfs. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Liliane David. Videocassette. Prod Georges de Beauregard-S.N.C., 1960; Dist. Connoisseur Video Collection, 1989.

Metropolis. Dir. Fritz Lang. Perfs. Gustav Frohlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel. Reconstructed and adapted videocassette release; music by Giorgio Moroder. UFA, 1927; dist. Vestron Video, 1985.
"Making of the Mutuals" (supplmentary visual essay by Sam Gill). The Chaplin Mutuals. Volume 3. DVD. Prod. Blackhawk Films; dist. Image Entertainment, 1995.

Medicine at the Crossroads. Prod. 13/WNET and BBC TV. Videocassette. PBS Video, 1993.

Following Fidel (Portrait of the Caribbean, 6). Dir. Roger Mills. Videocassette. Prod. BBC Television. Dist. Ambrose Video, 1992.

America's Least Wanted . Prod. Rebecca Haggerty, Susan Levine, Jamie McClelland, Adele Rice and Jaime Yassin. Videocassette. Paper Tiger TV, 1995.
Television and Radio


Include the following elements in the following order.
Title of the Program (underlined; alternatively, italics)
Series, if appropriate (in parentheses, underlined; alternatively,in italics)
Writer, Producer, Director, Performers (order depends on emphasis);
Network
Local Affiliate and the City
Date of Broadcast

Examples:


Racism 101. Prod. Thomas Lennon. PBS. KQED, San Francisco. 5 Oct. 1988.

White House Prayer Breakfast. Al Gore (Introduction), Bill Clinton (Address), Rev. Gerald Mann (Closing prayer), Rabbi Alan Cohen (Interview)." C-SPAN, Washington, D.C. 11 Sept. 1998.

Levi Strauss Co. Levi Dockers Advertisement. Aired 10:35pm. CBS. KPIX, San Francisco, 5 August 1999.
The Arsenal of Democracy (The Great Depression; 7) Prod. Blackside, Inc.; Exec Prod Henry Hampton. PBS. WGBH, Boston. 1 Mar. 1993.

Afghanistan: the Great Game. NPR, Washington, D.C. 8 Feb. 1980.


If necessary, cite the title of a particular episode as follows:

"War Against Iraq Begins." Perfs Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel. Nightline. ABC. KGO, San Francisco, 16 Jan. 1991.
"Emerging Tigers." Narr. Ress Jones. Prod. John Hawke. Asian Business Report. PBS. WEFT, New York. 15 August 1990.

"Mumia Abu Jamal: 15th Anniversary of His Arrest." Democracy Now. Pacifica. KPFA-FM, Berkeley, CA, 9 Dec. 1996.
Web Other Online Media

Adapted from the Columbia Guide to Online Style, by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor. Citation styles described are Humanities Style.

To cite the overall web site:
Author's Last Name, First Name OR Corporate/Institutional Author Name [if known]
"Title of Document or File"
Title of Complete Work [if applicable].
Version or File Number [if applicable].
Document date or date of last revision [if different from access date].
Protocol and address, access path or directories (date of access).

Examples:

University of California Berkeley. Library. Media Resources Center. "Free Speech Movement Audiorecordings." http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FSM.html (Oct. 5, 1999)
Kashiwabara, Amy. "Vanishing Son: The Appearance, Disappearance, and Assimilation of the Asian-American Man in American Mainstream Media." 1997. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Amydoc.html (May 5, 1998)

"Pokemon Craze." CNN Video Vault. Oct. 5, 1999. (http://www.cnn.com/video_vault/index.html)(Oct. 7, 1999)

If your reference is to the file itself, include the name of the artist, composer, director, producer, or author, if known; the title of the work enclosed in quotation marks, or the name of the file, not enclosed in quotation marks; publication information (if available); the publication date or date of last modification (if known); the protocol and address; the date accessed (in parentheses)

Examples:


Lucasfilm, Ltd. "Star Wars Trailer." Star Wars Official Site. http://starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer/ (Oct. 5, 1999)

pacificabd0016.02e.xdm. University of California at Berkeley. Library. Media Resources Center. "Free Speech Movement: The Cartop Ralley, Oct. 1-2, 1964." http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/pacificabd0016.02e.xdm (Aug. 5, 1999)




Here's the MLA version:

AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES

If you are citing a television or radio program:
"Voices of Memory." Li-Young Lee, Gerald Stern, and Bill Moyers. The Power of the Word with Bill Moyers. Exec. prod. Judith Davisdson Moyers and Bill Moyers. Public Affairs TV. WNET, New York. 13 June 1989.

If you are citing a video, start with the basic information: the title, the medium, the distributor, and the year produced. Add any additional information you think is useful about the performers, director, format, etc.
Amadeus. Videocassette. Dir. Milos Forman. Perf. F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, and Elizabeth Berridge. EMI/HBO, 1985.

If you are citing a DVD, use that as the medium, following the basic format shown above for videos:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. DVD. Dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones. Perf. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Columbia Tri-Star, 2001.

If you are citing an interview that is broadcast, taped, or published, include as much of the information shown as you have:
"The Broken Cord." Interview with Louise Erdich and Michael Dorris. Dir. and Prod. Catherine Tatge. A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers. Public Affairs TV. WNET, New York. 27 May 1990.

Answer 3

just ask your teacher