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Visual Communication: Advancing a Story Using Pictures.

by Internet Video Gal on 03/21/2019

Projects For The Beginning Film Maker. One of the skills you need to develop to create professional-quality videos is the ability to think visually. Instead of words, you communicate using pictures.  What visual cues can you as the film director give the viewer so he or she “gets” it? You have to first think of […]

Categories: Elementary School Curriculum Film Studies, High School Curriculum Film Studies, Video Production Tips     Tags: teach kids filmmaking, tell story with pictures, visual storytelling

An Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking

by Internet Video Gal on 03/12/2019

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Documentary filmmaking is a subcategory of film and video production where the production crew creates a work of journalism rather than a fictional movie. Instead of making up fictional characters and creating a world of make-believe, the documentary filmmaker’s job is to document real life and real people by accurately and fairly telling their stories.   Journalism […]

Categories: Demand Real Journalism, Documentary Video Making, High School Curriculum Film Studies, Teaching Video Production, Video Production Tips     Tags: beginners guide to journalism documentary filmmaking, documentary filmmaking, high school video production documentaries, how to make documentary, learn documentary filmmaking, mockumentary, news and documentary videos, what is journalism, what makes a good documentary

Character Marketing: Why So Many Advertisements Feature Branding Characters

by Internet Video Gal on 03/08/2019

Take a look at these eight marketing characters used to advertise national brands.  How many of them do you recognize? Do you know what product they represent? Every single time I showed pictures of marketing characters like this to my media students, they instantly knew almost every single character  They knew both the character name […]

Categories: Business Marketing with Video, High School Curriculum Film Studies, Storytelling, Video Production Tips     Tags: advertising characters, branded characters, character marketing, characters tv advertising, charlie the tuna, energizer bunny, how to make a tv commercial, how to make a video commercial, jolly green giiant, Michelin Man, Mr. Clean, pillsbury doughboy, ronald mcdonald, tony the tiger, tv commercial characters

Let’s Make a TV Commercial!

by Internet Video Gal on 03/08/2019

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Now that you have studied character marketing, it is time to come up with a product, a character and a commercial! Guidelines for your TV Commercial Project Your assignment is to create and produce a TV commercial using at least one character. Your commercial will promote a product using your character.  Remember, your character should […]

Categories: High School Curriculum Film Studies, Teaching Video Production, Video Production Tips     Tags: high school video production, high school video production curriculum, how to make a commercial, how to make a tv commercial, make tv commercial, produce tv commercial, video production curriculum

Video Editing: Historical Perspective on Linear and Nonlinear Video Editing

by Internet Video Gal on 03/07/2019

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Computers completely revolutionized video editing. Before computers, video editing was more expensive and slow.  It took tons of expensive equipment, a whole roomful if you got into big-budget production. The skills and techniques used were completely different from modern computer editing.  For the most part, video editing on these old systems was only done by […]

Categories: High School Curriculum Film Studies, Video Editing     Tags: analogue video editing systems, computer video editing, history of video editing, linear video editing, nonlinear video editing, video editing systems

How to Create Original Characters for Your Movie

by Internet Video Gal on 03/07/2019

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BUILDING CHARACTERS FOR A MOVIE When creating characters for a movie, consider the many different ways people behave, look and speak. Do you know anyone like this in real life? It always helps to follow the writer’s adage: “write what you know.” You can learn by imitating what has been done to create popular characters […]

Categories: High School Curriculum Film Studies, Video Production Tips     Tags: creating fictional characters, developing characters, how to develop characters for a movie, how to make a movie characters, movie character development, movie making techniques

Thoughts on Fixing the News Media

by Internet Video Gal on 10/23/2018

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WHY IS THE NEWS MEDIA SO DESTRUCTIVE AND HOW CAN WE FIX IT? When I contemplate the full repercussions of the 24-hour, anything-in-the-world-goes information cycle, it scares me a bit.  In my observation, as well as shown scientifically, humans are alarmingly susceptible to succumbing their will to authoritarian information and directives.  It seems to be […]

Categories: Demand Real Journalism, High School Curriculum Film Studies, Who Is Lorraine Grula     Tags: high school journalism curriculum, how to fix news media, how to tell fake news, learning journalism, problems with news media, tv news media issues

Anatomy of a Video: Analyzing Well-Made Videos

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One of the best ways to learn how to make video yourself is to study videos other people have already made.  No need to reinvent the wheel! Watching carefully and dissecting anything you watch is a great habit to get into.  I recommend it to all my students. Practice analyzing videos even as you just […]

How to Operate a Video Camera Easily

by Internet Video Gal on 12/25/2009

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Tips on how to handle a video camera like an expert.

Categories: High School Curriculum Film Studies, Video Cameras, Video Production Tips     Tags: easy video making techniques, how to operate a video camera, how to use a video camera easy, make video cameras, shooting with a video camera, simple video production, taking video with a camera, video production for beginners

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