Working+with+Video

=Teaching Children to Work with Video=

[|KidsVid]
This is a wonderful site with camera shot explanations, a storyboarding tool and tips on editing.

[| Film Street]
Children can work their way through different sections of this website looking at all aspects of how to make a good video. It comes with a downloadable video teaching PDF kit. There are video clips for the children to analyse. An excellent site.

[|Digital Video in Education]
A site with information and tips for the student process, teacher process, equipment and internet resources.

[|Animation - Film Education]
A number of resources to teaching animation with downloadable guides. There are other film making resources on the site.

[|Atomic Learning Video Storytelling]
This site looks at all of the shots and the rules of video taking with a short video to demonstrate each one.

[|Blog Post by John Johnston]
Information on the steps taken by John to introduce video making to his classroom and the tools he used to do it with.

[|Camera Shots]
The index page may not look that exciting but the pages of pictures linked to from here to demonstrate each shot and really useful. I used these pictures to make my ' [|Shot Treasure Hunt.doc]'.

[|Media College]
Another useful summary (with pictures) of shots and camera techniques.

[|Video Shooting Basics]
This website is designed for tertiary education but is an excellent site with clear pictures and video to demonstrate.

A cute video of an animation showing panning

[|Brick Films]
This site is for everything to do with stop motion video with many great examples.

[|Animate Clay]
This website takes you through everything you need to know about claymation and stop motion movies.

[|Stikfas]
These self-assembled characters would be great to use as the base of your clay characters. The company is in Sinapore but ships anywhere in the world. Buy a kit of these and you could be doing clayanimation in no time. Basic characters are $4.50 US each. Put magnets in their feet to help them stand up.

Check out this video using Stikfas characters. If you want to find more, go to YouTube and do a search for Stikfas.