Movie Making Resources

A lot of our students are doing movie projects right now.  Some classes are making the movies right on the iPads; while other classes are filming and then exporting the video to iMovie on our MacBooks.  In general this whole process is working much better than last year when we were making videos with Movie Maker.

Successful movie making has a lot of steps.  AFI is a great resource for all these movie making steps.  I've compiled a YouTube playlist of all the steps.  There are 13 videos in this playlist.



Here are some other apps and tools that you might find useful when movie making...

For the iPad
These are the apps that we are using for making student movies

1. iMovie
2. 8mm
3. Storyboards 3D
4. Puppetpals
5. Explain Everything
6. Animation HD
7. Greenscreen
8. EAW

 Movie Making Resources on the Web

1. PlotBot.com Here is a great site for writing screenplays.  You can even collaborate on screenplays with others on this site.  It puts it into the correct format automatically. 
2. Magisto.com This site takes your long boring video clips and changes it into something that is great to share.  This is great for videos of trips, sporting events etc.  Check it out.
3. This wikispaces site cooltoolsforschools has an awesome list of great video resources.
4. Jing is the best free screencasting tool that I have come across.  It's free and it works on Windows and Macs.