Tell the world

What do you want to tell the world? It’s a good idea to have something you want to talk about or discuss with the world. This is not the frustration you get on the bus when you have to stand all the way again, and you really do want to tell someone something. That could make a reasonable item for a short comedy sketch, but it will not make a film or television programme. You may just want to tell the world that you can write...

In the Video Production Zone section we have collected together a lot of useful material from this website that will help with video production, and added more skills, more examples, more exercises and more useful content.  If you are new to video production, or just need some new ideas, then this zone offers lots of ideas. 

Video Production

Kit Lists for Media Studies

Firstly, you need to decide on computers. The software you get will...

Storyboarding

See Understanding Storyboarding.

Interviewing

Interviewing is fun. Being part of a video crew allows you to interview all sorts of people in all sorts of places.

Sometimes, of course, people will refuse to be interviewed and don’t expect to be allowed onto the red carpet at a film première in Leicester Square without a lot of ‘talking to the right people’. Basically if you don’t ask then you have no chance of getting...

Video Production Part 1

This area of MediaEdu includes guides on:

• kit / equipment
• video editing techniques
• video camera skills
• getting started with the camera
• creating a sequence
• shot size
• make a music video exercise (short version)
• video documentary exercises.

http://media.edusites.co.uk/index.php/article/video-production-part-1/

Video Production Part 2

This area of MediaEdu includes guides on:

• scriptwriting
• storyboarding
• interviewing...

A Level Storyboarding

Pre-production Item | Storyboard

Example Brief: Create a storyboard (and video trailer) for a TV Crime Drama

The pre-production brief is to create a storyboard. Students should create a storyboard that shows as much detail as possible including camera instructions with details of camera movement, shot duration, content, details of audio tracks and details of transitions between frames.

This guide opens with a...

Video Camera – Getting Started

Making an interesting video with a modern digital camera is pretty easy – making a really good one, like most things, takes practice, and knowledge of a few techniques. You could be forgiven for thinking that it is just a case of pointing the camera, and pressing the red button.

Yes, you will shoot some pictures. They might be quite entertaining especially if it is a nice sunny day and you have some...

Foundation Portfolio in Media

This is a coursework unit where candidates produce two paired media artefacts from a series of briefs.

This process involves progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece.

The briefs offered are: print, video, audio and website.

This unit is internally assessed and externally moderated.

click on this hyperlink to find out more

Media Concepts (TV Drama)

This paper...

Editsense & Filmsense

What is Editsense?

‘Editsense is a new approach to learning about film language and film-making’.

This is an interactive DVD with excellent, practical examples of film - perfect for teachers of moving image, be it English, Creative and Digital Media or Film Studies.

It has over fifty video examples and includes materials for the introduction and revision of film. 

What does it include?

It includes video examples of...

We know that editing can be very tricky to teach, time consuming for the students and make the real difference with a final production (and grades!).

That is why we have created the Edusites Editing Workshop.

Depending on how well equipped your centre is, we can model production work and provide opportunities for students to be creative too. We will work with you and your resources to provide a session that improves the learners’ needs.

What is it?

This is the post-production process of making a moving image text, by the selection and ordering of a range of shots (the footage) into a continuous sequence. Editing can bring in audio (dialogue, score and sound effects), titles (credits) and still images.

Editing can help to enforce a theme, narrative or atmosphere, due to the pace and combination of elements selected. This could be through the use of a montage, the use of...

Win £5000 for your school!

Be ©reative is a unique and exciting production competition for young people aged 11-19, offering recognition for UK creative talent plus great prizes for individual winners and their schools. This year’s competition brief, provided by a real-life industry body, asks students to create an original ad campaign that encourages young people to respect the UK film and TV industries and make the positive decision to...

Half or Full Day Creative Media Production Courses in Your School

Programme Details

Although we have workshops and revision sessions listed below, we would also be thrilled to offer you a more bespoke package. This can be based on year groups, classes or one-to-one student led or can be based on either exam / internal assessment, theory or practical work.

We are also keen to work with teachers and departments and can offer CPD for your subject...

‘I need a video cameras for new term for around £100-150. Cannot seem to find any on market with external mic socket. Any advice?’ [Edusites Facebook Group]

You can’t buy a video camera with mini jack external sound for £150 except second hand. You should get one for about £250.

Have a look at the Canon, Sony or Panasonic range (don’t go Samsung or JVC as the coding is difficult) and find the best value camera with an external mic...

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to the 2012 WJEC GCSE Media Studies External Assessment on Music: Industry Websites & Magazines.

This page also contains external links to support materials on the WJEC site.

Scheme

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies Unit 1 Scheme of Work: Music | Industry Websites | Magazines

Guide

• Understanding The Music Industry & Music Industry Websites

Case...

Source: http://marvel.com/images/gallery/movie/127/untitled_gallery/image/740638

This guide explains what you have to do for the pre-production phase of WJEC GCSE Film Studies.

It shows you:

• how to write a script
• how to create a storyboard
• how to produce a front page and contents page for a new film magazine
• how to produce a marketing campaign for your film

It then explains how you will do / what grade you will get.

GCSE Film Studies...

Lynda.com Tutorials - Subscription Site

Video-Tutes.com Tutorials

Understanding Storyboarding on Mediaedu

BBC Training & Development - Free Online Courses

MovieMaker Tutorial on Making a TV Advert by David Smailes on Mediaedu [PC Download]

MovieMaker Tutorial on Making a TV Advert by David Smailes on Mediaedu [MAC Download]

Final Cut Express Tutorial

iMovie Tutorial

Making Movies by Nick Handel

Video Camera Skills Tutorial on Mediaedu

Music videos offer great opportunities to be creative on video using low cost equipment. You can work in just about any genre or style you like, as long as it has some relationship to the song.

Most of the hard work is usually done in postproduction, but that certainly does not mean you should skate over the shooting; it is essential you have enough shot material to work on in editing.

What is a music video trying to do?

A successful music...

Selected Song

You will have selected a song track which excites you. You will have some ideas about how you want to visualise this song.

You will have decided on whether you want to tell a story, create an atmospheric video, or present the song in some new innovative way, or use another form of visualisation such as a parody or pastiche.

It’s a good idea to write down the lyrics, so that you know what the song is about.

Your next job is to...

You have shot your video. You have a lot of pictures on DV tape, or hard disc, and you now have to edit these pictures to your chosen music track.

In other words you have completed production, and are ready to go into post-production.

Postproduction

Post-production is everything you do after the production of the video. The production is getting all the shots in the can. Post-production means editing the shots to the music, and it also means...

A Suggested Scheme of Work

It is suggested that you SELECT ONE BRIEF FOR THE WHOLE CLASS.

You’ll find it’s a nightmare if you have several specs running at the same time. Select your brief according to the technology you have available.

OCR SPEC: Print Brief

Preliminary Exercise

Using DTP and an image manipulation programme, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up...

Retouching Photoshop Tutorial on Basic Model Retouching

Teach-ict.com An excellent source of advice for those wishing to brush up on their computing skills.

Berkeley Uni on Storyboarding

Fashionerfilms Storyboarding Example for a Movie

Hawaii Uni on Creating a Storyboard for Video Production

Simple Storyboarding and Examples

Thirteen Ed Online - Making Movie Storyboards

Videomaker - From Shot Lists to Storyboards

VTK Productions - How to Draw Storyboards

Wikipedia on Storyboards

BBC Writers’ Room Script Examples

Script Smart The Script Smart tool is a set of Microsoft Word templates for writers to format their scripts using industry-recognised layouts. Script Smart was created by the BBC.

Alluc.org Free films, series, ads - in fact, all you can see!

Newsfilm Online is planned to be one of the most exciting resources to be offered to Higher and Further Education in the UK. 3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive, is to be made available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online will be a gateway of unmatched richness to...

Logocities.org Logo Cities is an ongoing research/creation project addressing signage, branding and lettering in public space, with a particular focus on the city of Montréal.

Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising

Online Journalism Review

Poynter Online ‘Everything you need to be a better journalist’

A History of Horror Films Some obscure sub-genres covered

Horror Film History An outstanding guide to the horror film genre across the decades by Karina Wilson

Horror Movie Trailers on eSplatter

Horror The Movie Contains most of the horror conventions in a condensed format.

Dafont.com

Flamingtext.com An excellent place to find some sophisticated and unique fonts to help you create impressive artefacts.

BBC Film Makers’ Guide

Behind the Camera

BFI on Shot Types - a pdf handout

Convivial.com on Video Production

Apple Education - Digital Content Creation

First Light Movies Want to make your first movie? Check this site out for practical advice + competitions you can enter.

Knowledgehound.com on Video Production

Top Ten Video tips - O’Reilly Media

The Guardian Guide to Making Video

Make your own movie with Moving Voices

Raindance Film...

Creative Archive Pilot

Creative Commons Licence

Intellectual Property Office on Copyright

Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended)

FACT Federation Against Copyright Theft

BBFC.org.uk Find out about film certification and censorship using this site.

SBBFC.org.uk Students’ British Board of Film Classification This site is aimed at media and film studies students and teachers covering the topics of Media Regulation and Censorship in the UK. The site was designed and is maintained by the British Board of Film Classification.

TMAP.org.uk Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel The Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel (...

2D Animation Software

Adobe AfterEffects [PC & Mac]
Publisher: Adobe
License: Free Trial
Comments: Motion graphics and visual effects for film and media.

Animator-9 3.6 [PC]
Publisher: Key Technology
License: Free
Comments: Make animated GIFs from your digital camera.

AniS 1.0 [PC]
Publisher: Tom Whittaker
License: Free
Comments: Simple image manipulation for the web.

Bauhaus Mirage [PC]

Jumpwel [PC]
Publisher: Phildes
License: Free...[ read full article ] »

Video Production Part 1

This area of MediaEdu includes guides on:

• kit / equipment
• video editing techniques
• video camera skills
• getting started with the camera
• creating a sequence
• shot size
• make a music video exercise (short version)
• video documentary exercises.

http://media.edusites.co.uk/index.php/article/video-production-part-1/

Video Production Part 2

This area of MediaEdu includes guides on:

...

Editsense & Filmsense

What is Editsense?

‘Editsense is a new approach to learning about film language and film-making’.

This is an interactive DVD with excellent, practical examples of film - perfect for teachers of moving image, be it English, Creative and Digital Media or Film Studies.

It has over fifty video examples and includes materials for the introduction and revision of film. 

What does it...

We know that editing can be very tricky to teach, time consuming for the students and make the real difference with a final production (and grades!).

That is why we have created the Edusites Editing Workshop.

Depending on how well equipped your centre is, we can model production work and provide opportunities for students to be creative too. We will work with you and your resources to provide a session...

Win £5000 for your school!

Be ©reative is a unique and exciting production competition for young people aged 11-19, offering recognition for UK creative talent plus great prizes for individual winners and their schools. This year’s competition brief, provided by a real-life industry body, asks students to create an original ad campaign that encourages young people to respect the UK film and TV industries...

Half or Full Day Creative Media Production Courses in Your School

Programme Details

Although we have workshops and revision sessions listed below, we would also be thrilled to offer you a more bespoke package. This can be based on year groups, classes or one-to-one student led or can be based on either exam / internal assessment, theory or practical work.

We are also keen to work with teachers and...