Student Video Projects: Resources to Help You: Home

The goal of this project is to create as many variations as possible on a simple one-page non-story: different points of view, different genres, different formal games, and so on.

The all-in-one system for video and movie planning. Work together to write the script, prepare the shoot, and take your cast and crew into production.

Best practices for using video in your content marketing strategy, examples of B2B and B2C brands who are doing it well, and tips and tricks to steal and make your own.

Videorecording: Interviews with seasoned filmmakers about the technical, legal, ethical and business issues of documentary film.

Tutorials on animation, Photoshop, storyboarding, iMovie, voiceover, audio, and much more.

No Film School is the leading worldwide community of filmmakers, video producers, and independent creatives. No Film School is where filmmakers learn from each other — “no film school” required. Topics include: editing, post-production, sound, cameras, and more. One may sign up to receive a free high-resolution PDF of The DSLR Cinematography Guide.

Collaboratively created by a team of media scholars and lawyers, these best practices will allow users to make remixes, mashups, and other common online genres with the knowledge that they are staying within copyright law. From Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property & American University Center for Social Media.

Download fonts that are freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain.

Database of freely usable music for videos, podcasts, etc.

Search for images with no known copyright restrictions.

An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.

Royalty-free music, all rights included.

Guides to several sources of CC-licensed music.

Free images and videos you can use anywhere. All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty-free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.

Free ("do whatever you want") high-resolution photos submitted by photographers worldwide.

A database of millions of freely usable media files: images, sound, video.

Provides training and access to emerging media technologies for public media producers, independent artists, at-risk youth and other non-profit organizations.

An international training organization dedicated to developing the production of crossmedia content and exploring the creative and commercial challenges of developing digital media.

Searchble library of interactive and digital documentaries. With over 100 projects to choose from, it is one of the largest databases of its kind worldwide.

A space for news, research, analysis and dialogue about interactive documentary

MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists and scholars together to explore new documentary storytelling with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive and immersive forms.

Tools, resources and advice to build your own interactive project; programming that aims to expand the knowledge around interactive storytelling; and more.

Step-by-step instructions.
When a clip or playlist is created, it has a unique URL and can be made public or kept private. The URL can be shared with others via email or otherwise, and there is a unique embed code for it as well. All clips and playlists will be saved on the platform for you under your profile, so that it is not lost and you can always revisit it.

You can choose from many types of audio and video files to embed or link to in your PowerPoint 2010 presentation.

Adobe Voice has a library featuring 25,000 graphics, backgrounds, and music. Then you record your own voice to finish the movie. Fast and simple.

"Browse your clips easily, instantly share your favorite moments, and create Hollywood‑style trailers and beautiful movies at a stunning 4K resolution. You can even start editing on iPhone or iPad, and finish on a Mac."

Import and edit slide shows and videos; Edit your movies and choose a theme; Add and edit audio; Share your movie online.