see also:
Copyright & Fair Use in Media Production --
Video Editors
- Adobe Design Center
Articles, advice, and tutorials on creating digital video, focused on Adobe products.
- AFI: LightsCameraEducation
Short videos on film making from the American Film Institute, with free downloadable instructor's book for teachers.
- Animoto for Education
Classroom teachers can now use a code to allow their students free access for projects of any length.
- The Basics of Video Editing: The Complete Guide
From Lifehacker, "the basics of video editing, covering everything from the general workflow to special effects and color correction to a primer on encoding and delivery."
- Celtx
Celtx supplies tools for the media pre-production process, from creating a storyline through script editing, storyboarding, and scheduling.
- Dr. Alice Christie's Digital Media Resources
Designed for teachers, this site includes production tips, planning and assessment information, and examples of completed projects.
- Essential Video Tutorials For Shooting & Editing Video
Page about some good articles and YouTube videos about making videos.
- Film Education
A U.K. resource for students and teachers of media studies.
- Film Techniques of Alfred Hitchcock - suspense, camera angles, style, editing, basics
This site "has compiled these articles to further spread the brilliant simplicity of Hitchcock's creative genius."
- The Guide To Sound Effects
"This page contains a number of ideas on how to create various sound effects, and we hope you find it inspiring." Includes both descriptions of how to make sounds and audio files of demon sounds.
- How To Make Videos For The Web
Very nice introduction specifically taking into account the limitations of web video. Another how-to by the same author explores How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great.
- JISC Digital Media
Tutorials about still and video photography, audio, and cross-media use, plus a regular blog and a newsletter. While designed specifically for U.K. educators, much of the information on this site is generally applicable.
- Kids'Vid.org
"Kids'Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning.
- Killer App for Education (Video Creation for Education)
Information on the whys and hows of videography by educators, with annotated links.
- Lifehacker: Digital Video
An irregular blog with lessons, tips, and reviews of software for creating and editing digital video.
- Light Right - A Crash Course In Lighting Video
"A crash course in the basics of video lighting, including a few tips to get around the most common problems you'll run into in your productions."
- Make Internet TV
"This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and publishing online videos that can be watched and subscribed to by millions of people."
- Streaming Video
"Here are some tips, tutorials, and software recommendations to help you produce streaming video." Nicely organized site from the University of Wisconsin.
- A Teacher's Guide to Video Conferencing
"The following materials have been compiled to illustrate practical examples of six powerful considerations for Video Conferencing." Discusses both pedagogical and technical issues.
- Television Production Manual
Online version of short handbook for tv video production
- Traditional Film Camera Techniques
Describes basic techniques, camera angles, focal lengths to use, movement, etc.
- Video Creation for Education
Overview of the fundamentals of recording videos for the web.
- Video Editing
A Thinkquest project on the basics of video editing.
- Video Toolbox
"Online video is a huge trend - so huge that’s it’s proving hard to keep track. From video sharing sites to video mixers, mashups and converters, we’ve brought together more than 150 of our favorite sites in this category."
- Videography.com
Professional site with news and information for working digital cinematographers.
- Videography for Educators
Another site from Apple. While it is aimed at educators, the fine "tips and techniques to assist in the creation of quality video products" can be used by anyone.
- videoresources
"It's a great era for teaching with digital storytelling. A font of resources exist online, and you'll find links to many of them here." Links to great sites for students as well as teachers.
- Vimeo Video School
"Vimeo Video School is a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos. Start by browsing our Vimeo Lessons, or find specific video tutorials created by other members."
- Web Video Cheat Sheet
A helpful chart listing web video services and such features as video editing, file size limits, cost, and other pertinent information.
- CogDogRoo: 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story (wiki)
Online workshop to "design [and create] a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video" with a discussion of various tools for this.
- Digital Storytelling Toolkit
Excellent site for instructions and information on digital storytelling.
- Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps
"Expert tips on creating a polished, professional digital video." From TechSoup.
- Digital Storytelling Cookbook
Free .pdf version of a book about digital storytelling techniques.
- DigiTales
"Welcome to a world of resources, examples and training opportunities to inspire your own digital storytelling tales! Visit the storymaking steps, toolkits and galleries of digital stories designed to help jump start beginners."
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
A page for teachers using digital storytelling in the classroom.
- Ira Glass: Tips on Storytelling
"A video of Ira Glass, a veteran radio personality and host of This American Life, giving advice to those making short stories."
- StoryMapping
"StoryMapping is a call to action. We are taking the lessons learned from more than a decade of work in Digital Storytelling, and integrating it with an emergent tool set of digital mapping technologies now available to the broad public."
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