10 Free After Effects Training Resources

The Premiembeats.com blog has a list of Ten Free After Effects Training Resources. 

DSLR Camera Simulator - CameraSim.com

CameraSim.com has two interesting features that help explain how to operate an SLR camera.  While primarily aimed at still camera users, it is definitely valuable for new DSLR video users. 

Try their DSLR Camera Sim and their DSLR Explainer. 

YouTube Copyright Basics

YouTube has an entertaining video on copyright law featuring the puppets Glove and Boots.

YouTube Copyright Basics



Find more copyright information at:
www.youtube.com/yt/copyright

13 Steps for Creating a Student News Package

High School Broadcasting teacher Don Goble has a written some great articles for the Journalism Education Association's Digital Media Resources website. 

He wrote this valuable list of 13 Steps for Creating a Student News Package. 

He also has a great article titled, "The reaction in broadcast journalism is just as important (if not more) as the action." 

Set Etiquette Links

The following three links provide good information on proper etequite on a film set.  Both are directed at a high school audience.

Film Etiquette

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Hollywood High School PowerPoint

Filmmaking Tips: Composition, Rule of Thirds and Building a Sequence

The guys at Hollywood Bubble have and interesting contest that allows anyone to edit footage they shot.  While the contest ends in April 2011, the tips in the video are valuable, if not perfectly illustrated.  They provide the raw footage as a free download. If you are not turned off by using a shooting scene, then this makes a fun and quick editing assignment.  Download the HD .mov files here.

Audio for Video Training - PowerPoint

On October 13, 2010, I did a teacher training presentation for the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium.  The topic was Audio for Video.

This Teacher Resource Page has a link to the video of the event and the PowerPoint I used.  You can watch the video at the SECC website.

4Filmmaking Free Resources

The website 4Filmmaking has some free forms available for download. 

Atomic Learning Video Storytelling Guide - Free

Atomic Learning has a free preview of their Video Storytelling Guide with a series of videos.  The entire series requires a subscription, but the first 16 short videos are free. 

Final Cut Pro Level 1 Study Materials

Susan Smith of Edinburg High School has study materials available on her school's website for passing the Final Cut Pro Level 1 exam.

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4filmmaking.com - Online Filmmaking Textbook

4filmmaking.com a "Film School Online" is a site with lots of free filmmaking information. The design of the website is not very appealing and it is loaded with ads, but the content is quite good. It can make a fine online textbook. Its focus is more on low budget filmmaking, which is different from the television focus found on the excellent cybercollege.com website.

Irish Moving Image Arts Curriculum

The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission website called Creative Learning in the Digital Age. It supports their high school level examination in the Moving Image Arts. Among the resources are 48 pages of film lesson plans.

Shot Type Exercise

An interesting assignment illustrating shot types.

C-SPAN Searchable Video Archives - Free

Below is an announcement from C-SPAN to teachers about their free searchable video library. While you can watch the videos, you will need to pay (typically $29.95-$44.95) for a copy if you want the footage on DVD. No word on if they will offer a teacher discount

Today, C-SPAN officially launches the C-SPAN Video Library, a free, searchable online collection of every C-SPAN program aired since 1987. This means teachers will now have access to over 160,000 hours of searchable digital video. You will also be able to create your own embeddable clips for lessons and presentations in your classroom.

C-SPAN’s Video Library easily equips teachers with thousands of free resources to create authentic learning experiences for students that deepen their understanding of U.S. and world history, the workings of governments, the role of the media, and current political events.

Key features of the C-SPAN Video Library (www.c-spanvideo.org):

· Over 160,000 hours of searchable and watchable digital C-SPAN video
· All C-SPAN videos dating back to 1987, and certain older videos from C-SPAN’s earliest years
· A comprehensive search engine, developed exclusively for the Video Library
· Flash player with clipping and sharing features
· Share buttons for e-mail and social media (Facebook and Twitter)
· Transcripts, photo galleries, statistics and more
· User-friendly

Some Ideas to Get You Started:

• Take a look at the C-SPAN Video Library Blog. We have linked to several historical 20th Century moments that you may find useful in your classroom.
• Discuss this week’s impeachment hearings of Judge Thomas Porteous by using video of past impeachment hearings. You can show the Senate’s impeachment process with video from former President Clinton’s impeachment trial. Here’s a link to C-SPAN’s coverage of the trial.
• Have your students try the C-SPAN Video Library image quiz. Name the faces that appear on the page. Check their answers by scrolling over the images.

Share Your Ideas:

• Now that we have given you some ways to use C-SPAN’s Video Library, we would like you to share your own ideas. Join C-SPAN’s Ning Community, where teachers are already sharing their ideas about using C-SPAN in their classrooms.



While you’re looking at C-SPAN’s Video Library, make sure to go to the Congressional Chronicle. It is an index to C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings - organized by speaker - with full-text and full-video search and an extensive Congressional database going back to 1993.

The C-SPAN Video Library will be helpful to show your students the political and policy process from events which occurred in the past or just earlier that day. Its extensive holdings will allow students to see how elected officials, politicians, journalists, experts, authors, and other opinion leaders present themselves on the issues of the day and over time. We hope it will quickly become a resource for your classroom. The C-SPAN Video Library and its Congressional Chronicle truly offers ‘Washington your way’.”

Set-to-Screen Videos and Curriculum - Free

I have updated an earlier post on the Set-to-Screen podcast series that was on the Apple website. It featured an in depth look at Baz Luhrman's Australia. That webpage is now down, but you can still access the videos and lesson plans. The series is aimed at high school students and is excellent.

MediaCollege.com - Video Resources

MediaCollege.com is an excellent educational website containing free tutorials, reference and other resource material in all areas of electronic media production.

SEVA Training - Effective PSA PowerPoint

On October 17, I gave a presentation on Creating Effective Public Service Announcements for SECC's SEVA Teacher Training Day. You can download a copy of my PowerPoint at the link below.

With some slight modifications, you can use it to make a presentation to students.

PSA PowerPoint

National Film Study Standards

The Film Foundation has developed a National Film Study for Middle School. They are applicable to high school, for those in search of such standards. They have the following five thematic strands:

• 1.0 Film Language
• 2.0 Historical and Cultural Contexts
• 3.0 Production and Creative Expression
• 4.0 Viewers Response and Aesthetic Valuing
• 5.0 Cross Curricular Connections

FTVstudy.com - Great resource

FTVstudy.com is a website that is full of excellent materials. It was developed as a resource for Film and Television Students of Far North Queensland, Australia by teacher Clyde Williams. He generously allows others to access the content.

This website is to help you with your Assessment Requirements for the study of Film, Television and New Media, here at Cairns State High School.
Other schools are welcome to access these resources.
We would be happy to hear from any teachers or students as to the sharing of any extra materials you might have, or like to see here on this site.

He has a page with a number of student examples. He also has some Final Cut Express video tutorials.

BYU's Media Education Database - Lesson Plans

Brigham Young University hosts a Media Education Database with a large number of lesson plans, units and projects. Teachers contribute to the collection.