Research Guides: Geek Media Labs: Video Production

EKU Library Book & Other Resources

Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide by Allan Brito
ISBN: 9781789804959
Publication Date: 2018-11-30
Use Blender to edit and produce video for YouTube or any other social media platforms Key Features Use the Blender Video editing toolkit and UI Make 3D info-graphics and interactive video with the latest Blender toolkit Prepare a video production with live markings for tracking Book Description One of the critical components of any workflow related to video production is a reliable tool to create and edit media such as video and audio. In most cases, you will find video producers using software that can only cut and mount video in a "traditional" way. What if you could use a software that offers not only options to edit and cut video, but also create 3D content and animation? With Blender, you can make use of a fantastic set of tools to edit and cut video, and also produce 3D content that will enable you to take your productions to the next level. Do you want to take footage from a camera and cut or add sound and titles? This book will show you how Blender can do that for you! You will learn to add 3D virtual objects to the same footage that will help you to create a full 3D environment. Using some camera tricks, you can even turn Blender into a powerful 2.5D animation software to create compelling infographics to produce educational, marketing, and instructional videos. You will also learn how to work with motion tracking to mix live-action footage with virtual objects. You will then learn how to use the video editing capabilities of Blender and match 3D content to your project for YouTube or any other media. Toward the end of the book, you will export the project to YouTube using optimal settings for the best performance in the platform. What you will learn Import video and audio footage to Blender Use the Video Sequencer Editor to manipulate footage Prepare a project related to video in Blender Cut and reorganize video footage in Blender Create animations and add voiceover and sound to video Build infographics based on 3D content Blend 3D content with live-action footage Export video for YouTube using optimal settings Who this book is for Anyone trying to produce content based on video for platforms like YouTube. Those artists will need a software to cut and edit video footage or make small intro clips, animations, or info graphics for video.
Video Animation and Photography by Anastasia Suen
ISBN: 9781683423812
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Discover the world of video animation and photography. Create videos with music, film your family history, and add amazing backgrounds with a green screen app. This Maker Space title supports NGSS for Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer.
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen by Michel Chion; Claudia Gorbman (Translator)
ISBN: 9780231185882
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in audiovisual media does not merely complement images. Instead, the two channels together engage audio-vision, a special mode of perception that transforms both seeing and hearing. We don't see images and hear sounds separately--we audio-view a trans-sensory whole. In this updated and expanded edition, Chion considers many additional examples from recent world cinema and formulates new questions for the contemporary media environment. He takes into account the evolving role of audio-vision in different theatrical environments, considering its significance for music videos, video art, commercial television, and the internet, as well as conventional cinema. Chion explores how multitrack digital sound enables astonishing detail, extending the space of the action and changing practices of scene construction. He demonstrates that speech is central to film and television and shows why "audio-logo-visual" is a more accurate term than "audiovisual." Audio-Vision shows us that sound is driving the creation of a sensory cinema. This edition includes a glossary of terms, a chronology of several hundred significant films, and the original foreword by sound designer, editor, and Oscar honoree Walter Murch.
Directing by Virginia Wright Wexman (Editor, Contribution by); Charlie Keil (Contribution by); William Luhr (Contribution by); Sarah Kozloff (Contribution by); Daniel Langford (Contribution by); J. D. Connor (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780813564302
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job--especially the collaborations and compromises it involves--remains little understood. The latest volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series, this collection provides the first comprehensive overview of how directing, as both an art and profession, has evolved in tandem with changing film industry practices. Each chapter is written by an expert on a different period of Hollywood, from the silent film era to today's digital filmmaking, providing in-depth examinations of key trends like the emergence of independent production after World War II and the rise of auteurism in the 1970s. Challenging the myth of the lone director, these studies demonstrate how directors work with a multitude of other talented creative professionals, including actors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers. Directing examines a diverse range of classic and contemporary directors, including Orson Welles, Tim Burton, Cecil B. DeMille, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and Ida Lupino, offering a rich composite picture of how they have negotiated industry constraints, utilized new technologies, and harnessed the creative contributions of their many collaborators throughout a century of Hollywood filmmaking.
Producing by Jon Lewis (Contribution by, Editor); Mark Lynn Anderson (Contribution by); Saverio Giovacchini (Contribution by); Douglas Gomery (Contribution by); Bill Grantham (Contribution by); Toby Miller (Contribution by); Joanna E. Rapf (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780813567228
Publication Date: 2016-01-14
Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone gets a project financed (though their day-to-day participation in the project may be negligible). The job title, regardless of the actual work involved, warrants a great deal of prestige in the film business; it is the credited producers, after all, who collect the Oscar for Best Picture. But what producers do and what they don't or won't do varies from project to project. Producing is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the roles that producers have played in Hollywood, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the present day. It introduces readers to the colorful figures who helped to define and reimagine the producer's role, including inventors like Thomas Edison, moguls like Darryl F. Zanuck, entrepreneurs like Walt Disney, and mavericks like Roger Corman. Readers also get an inside look at the less glamorous jobs producers have often performed: shepherding projects through many years of development, securing financial backers, and supervising movie shoots. The latest book in the acclaimed Behind the Silver Screen series, Producing includes essays written by seven film scholars, each an expert in a different period of cinema history. Together, they give readers a full picture of how the art and business of producing films has changed over time--and how the producer's myriad job duties continue to evolve in the digital era.
Digital Music Videos by Steven Shaviro
ISBN: 9780813589459
Publication Date: 2017-04-15
Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before. As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely accessible than ever before. In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro examines the ways that music videos interact with and change older media like movies and gallery art; the use of technologies like compositing, motion control, morphing software, and other digital special effects in order to create a new organization of time and space; how artists use music videos to project their personas; and how less well known musicians use music videos to extend their range and attract attention. Surveying a wide range of music videos, Shaviro highlights some of their most striking innovations while illustrating how these videos are creating a whole new digital world for the music industry.
Versatile Video Coding by Humberto Ochoa Dominguez; Kamisetty R. Rao
ISBN: 9788770220477
Publication Date: 2019-03-21
Video is the main driver of bandwidth use, accounting for over 80 percent of consumer Internet traffic. Video compression is a critical component of many of the available multimedia applications: being necessary for storage or transmission of digital video over today's band-limited networks. The majority of this video is coded using international standards developed in collaboration with ITU-T Study Group and MPEG. The MPEG family of video coding standards began in the early 1990s with MPEG-1, developed for video and audio storage on CD-ROMs, with support for progressive video. MPEG-2 was standardized in 1995 for applications of video on DVD, standard and high definition television, with support for interlaced and progressive video. MPEG-4 part 2, also known as MPEG-2 video, was standardized in 1999 for applications of low- bit rate multimedia on mobile platforms and the Internet, with the support of object-based or content based coding by modeling the scene as background and foreground. Since MPEG-1, the main video coding standards were based on the so-called macroblocks. However, research groups continued the work beyond the traditional video coding architectures and found that macroblocks could limit the performance of the compression when using high-resolution video. Therefore, in 2013 the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) also known as H.265, was released, with a structure similar to H.264/AVC but using coding units with more flexible partitions than the traditional macroblocks. HEVC has greater flexibility in prediction modes and transform block sizes, also it has a more sophisticated interpolation and deblocking filters. In 2006 the VC-1 was released. VC-1 is a video code implemented by Microsoft and the Microsoft Windows Media Video (VMW) 9 and standardized by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). In 2017 the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) released a call for proposals for a new video coding standard initially called Beyond the HEVC, Future Video Coding (FVC) or known as Versatile Video Coding (VVC). VVC is being built on top of HEVC for application on Standard Dynamic Range (SDR), High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 360° Video. The VVC is planned to be finalized by 2020. This book presents the new VVC, and updates to the HEVC. The book discusses the advances in lossless coding and covers the topic of screen content coding. Technical topics discussed include: - Beyond the High Efficiency Video Coding - High Efficiency Video Coding encoder - Screen content - Lossless and visually lossless coding algorithms - Fast coding algorithms - Visual quality assessment - Other screen content coding algorithms - Overview of JPEG Series
What's a Cellphilm? by Katie MacEntee (Volume Editor); Casey Burkholder (Volume Editor); Joshua Schwab-Cartas (Volume Editor)
ISBN: 9789463005715
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
What's a Cellphilm? explores cellphone video production for its contributions to participatory visual research. There is a rich history of integrating participants' videos into community-based research and activism. However, a reliance on camcorders and digital cameras has come under criticism for exacerbating unequal power relations between researchers and their collaborators. Using cellphones in participatory visual research suggests a new way forward by working with accessible, everyday technology and integrating existing media practices. Cellphones are everywhere these days. People use mobile technology to visually document and share their lives. This new era of democratised media practices inspired Jonathan Dockney and Keyan Tomaselli to coin the term cellphilm (cellphone + film). The term signals the coming together of different technologies on one handheld device and the emerging media culture based on people's use of cellphones to create, share, and watch media. Chapters present practical examples of cellphilm research conducted in Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, the Netherlands and South Africa. Together these contributions consider several important methodological questions, such as: Is cellphilming a new research method or is it re-packaged participatory video? What theories inform the analysis of cellphilms? What might the significance of frequent advancements in cellphone technology be on cellphilms? How does our existing use of cellphones inform the research process and cellphilm aesthetics? What are the ethical dimensions of cellphilm use, dissemination, and archiving? These questions are taken up from interdisciplinary perspectives by established and new academic contributors from education, Indigenous studies, communication, film and media studies.
Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Digital Videos, Fifth Edition by Alan Rosenthal; Ned Eckhardt
ISBN: 9780809334582
Publication Date: 2015-12-23
In a new edition of this popular guidebook, filmmakers Alan Rosenthal and Ned Eckhardt show readers how to utilize the latest innovations in equipment, technologies, and production techniques for success in the digital, web-based world of documentary film. All twenty-four chapters of the volume have been revised to reflect the latest advances in documentary filmmaking. Rosenthal and Eckhardt discuss the myriad ways in which technological changes have impacted the creation process of documentary films, including how these evolving technologies both complicate and enrich filmmaking today. The book provides crucial insights for the filmmaker from the film's conception to distribution of the finished film. Topics include creating dynamic proposals, writing narration, and navigating the murky world of contracts. Also included are many practical tips for first-time filmmakers. To provide context and to illustrate techniques, Rosenthal and Eckhardt reference more than one hundred documentaries in detail. A new appendix, "Using the Web and Social Media to Prepare for Your Career," guides filmmakers through the process of leveraging social media and crowdsourcing for success in filmmaking, fund-raising, and promotion. A day-to-day field manual packed with invaluable lessons, this volume is essential reading for both novice and experienced documentary filmmakers.
Abstract Video by Gabrielle Jennings (Editor); Kate Mondloch (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780520282476
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual music, and experimental film. Editor Gabrielle Jennings--a video artist herself--reveals as never before how works of abstract video are not merely, as the renowned curator Kirk Varnedoe once put it, "pictures of nothing," but rather amorphous, ungovernable spaces that encourage contemplation and innovation. In explorations of the work of celebrated artists such as Jeremy Blake, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Ryoji Ikeda, Takeshi Murata, Diana Thater, and Jennifer West, alongside emerging artists, this volume presents fresh and vigorous perspectives on a burgeoning and ever-changing arena of contemporary art.
Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business by Inc. The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc.; Jason R. Rich
ISBN: 9781599186191
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
Reel in the Profits with YouTube YouTube delivers more than a billion minutes of streaming content to 1.3 billion active users every day. That's equivalent to one-third of all internet users and at least a billion reasons to start creating videos that promote your business, brand, products, and services today. Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business is the video marketing blueprint you need to create videos that educate, entertain, and inspire viewers to take action. You'll learn how to plan, edit, promote, and share your videos with the public, as well as how to leverage YouTube's tools to help spotlight your business and your products without spending a fortune. From video production to promotion, this guide shares the battle-tested strategies and tried-and-true advice from successful YouTube experts to help you: Set up your channel and become a YouTube Partner to start monetizing your videos Create a virtual community that uses and loves your products Cater your videos to your target audience at every stage--pre-production, production, post-production, and promotion Drive traffic to your channel, website, or social media with optimized video titles, tags, playlists, and more Promote your YouTube videos using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social sites Make a video go viral with the help of blogs, websites, and other online resources Find out what a YouTube channel can do for you as you learn to create your channel, leverage it as a marketing tool, and maximize your return on investment.
Live Video Revolution by Joel Comm; Michael Stelzner (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781683506140
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
With one in five Facebook videos posted being live videos, it's essential that businesses and brands understand how to use this technology and create content for live broadcasts. Just as social media is a relatively new phenomenon which many business owners are still learning how to use, live video is rapidly becoming a great way to increase customer engagement and sales. The Live Video Revolution covers a brief history of live video technology, how that technology can be used for personal branding and business, features of live videos, and includes a variety of case studies to provoke thought and encourage businesses and brands to utilize this technology.
STEAM Guides in TV Production by Judy Greenspan
ISBN: 9781681918099
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Secret codes? Optical illusions? Sounds like magic, but this is television. TV production relies on all STEAM fields to bring your favorite shows from the studio to the screen. Discover how it all works. This title supports Common Core Standards for college and career readiness.
The TV Studio Production Handbook by Lucy Brown; Lyndsay Duthie
ISBN: 9781784536282
Publication Date: 2016-09-28
Here is the one-stop handbook to make your studio production shine.The TV Studio Production Handbook explains the production process from beginning to end and covers everything media students need to know to create a successful studio television programme. It is an illuminating read for those starting out in the industry and an invaluable resource for students of media, film and TV.The book is packed with interviews from top TV executives from the UK, USA, Australia and China and includes live case studies from hit international formats covering every genre, from reality, to drama to news, with scripts from Britain's Got Talent, Big Brother, Coronation Street, The Chase, Teletubbies, Channel 4 News and more. The authors, both award-winning TV programme-makers and academic programme leaders, break things down genre by genre and explore pre-production, casting, scripting, as well as all the required paperwork from call sheets to running orders. They also examine the future of studio and the multiplatform opportunities available for programme makers internationally.
Directing the Narrative and Shot Design by Lubomir Kocka
ISBN: 9781622732883
Publication Date: 2018-01-31
This book is a "directing-altering book" as it provides high-quality learning resources that encourage and challenge film enthusiasts, aspiring directors, film students, and professionals to strive for new levels of excellence and impact in their film directing, television directing, and new media directing.This book puts forward a well-informed and innovative discussion of critical director's choices that have not previously been considered by existing texts on film and television directing. This book presents a wide range of directorial concepts and directing exercises that include: ¿ Psycho-physiological regularities in left-right/right-left orientation transferred to a shot design. How directors can manipulate the viewer's perception of a character and of the journey they are on using screen direction. ¿ Methodology and visual strategy for rendering a scene based on character perspective.¿ The directorial concept of emotional manipulation. ¿ Demystifying the 180-degree rule.

Academic Resources

Video Production Planning

Plan

1. What is the goal of my video?

YouTube Creator Academy (free access to tons of great videos!)

2. What is the content of my video? Who is my audience?

Content-Stats? Personal story? Dramatization? Other?

Audience-Demographics? Culture? Language? Other?

3. How will I visually convey the purpose of my video?

How to Write a Killer Script

101 Great Screenplays

Based on the Book - up-to-date, ever-expanding database of books, plays, short stories, and graphic novels that have been made into feature-length movies or adapted for TV

Internet Movie Script Database

Script Magazine

Writers Guild of America East

How to create a Storyboard

Storyboarding for people who can't draw

Berkeley Advanced Media Institute - Start-to-Finish Storyboarding

4. What type of technology do I already have?

How to Shoot Video with your Smartphone

10 Tips for Recording Better Video with your Smartphone

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Smartphone Filmmaking

10 Clever Ways to Make Video Using Just a Laptop

How to Create 360-Degree Video: The Ultimate Guide

Introduction to 360-degree video and virtual reality

How to Shoot, Edit, and Upload 360-Degree Videos

5. Basic Camera Information

Static - The camera does not move

Pan - The camera moves from one side to the other

Tilt - The camera moves up or down

Zoom - The camera stays still, and, by adjusting the lens, the picture zooms in and out

Tracking - The camera follows the motion by either panning, tilting, or trucking (physically moving the entire camera along with the action)

180-Degree Rule - the camera should stay on one side of an imaginary line between two characters so each always appears to be facing the same direction

Vertical vs Horizontal

How to Create a Winning Video to Pitch Your Idea

How to Make Pitch & Proposal Videos

How to Pitch Your Business in 60 Seconds

Create

1. How can I record good quality video for my project?

Following the tips below will help you record quality, professional-looking footage.

Horizontal Shooting - Take a moment to think about watching a video on a monitor or a television screen. The orientation of the screen is often landscape and not portrait, right? Make sure to capture your footage in a suitable orientation for your video.

Keep it Steady - Shaky camera footage can be very distracting for the viewer. To keep footage smooth and steady, you might want to secure your smartphone or recording device on a tripod, prop it up on some books, or just steady your elbows on a table while recording.

Composition - Before you begin recording video, take a step back and look around at your settings. Is there anything in the background that might detract from the content of your footage? Is there sufficient light? Are you close enough to the subject of your video?

Audio - Clear audio may be even more important to a professional-looking video than the footage. Record some test audio to be sure you are able to hear the action or dialogue. Make sure to record your footage in a quiet space. You can also boost the volume later when you are in the editing process, but you do want to try and get the best sound possible on location.

More is Better - Go ahead and record more video than you actually need for your project. This is called coverage. It will be much easier during the editing process to have more to work with and you can always cut out things that you didn't need.

Checklist for Creating Accessible Videos

Making Audio and Video Media Accessible

Creating Accessible Videos

Creating Accessible Documents

Create Accessible PDFs

PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0

How to Edit Automatic Captions in YouTube

UTT Creator - An Online editor and visualizer for video captions and subtitles

Discover

Keep learning so check out the tutorials and keep watching for inspiration!

The Hero's Journey (Video)

Software and Free Stock Video Sites

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Rush

Pexels Free Stock Videos

Videvo

Pixabay

Mixkit

Animation Factory (free animation)

Stock Footage

The Open Video Project

Pond5

iStock

Video Hive

Critical Past (Vintage Video)

Screenwriting Software

Final Draft (Educational Version Available) - Screenwriting Tips

ScriptBuddy

Scrivener

Storylist

Convert files to MP4 format

1. Download and install Handbrake

2. Select a file to open and convert. If you are not prompted to open a file, select "Open Source" in the panel at the top fo the HandBrake and choose a file.

3. In the "Destination" field, choose where to save the file and give it a name. Click the drop arrow next to the "Save As" box for more options.

4. If you want to convert a portion of a DVD, select Chapters, Seconds or Frames from the drop-down menu and then the duration to convert.

5. Pres the green "Start" button in the top left menu, or choose "Add to Queue"

6. Repeat steps 2-5 until all the files you want to convert are in the queue. Then select "Show Queue" and press "Start" in the queue window.

Media Arts & Video Production Websites

Cinematography.com - community, education, news, and resources for cinematographers

Digital Arts, Film, and Television (DAFT)

Film Sound - Learning space dedicated to the art of film sound design

Indiegogo - an international crowdfunding site where anyone can raise money for film, music, art, charity, small businesses, gaming, theater, and more

Library of Congress Inventing Entertainment Collection - The early motion pictures and sound recordings of the Edison Companies

Museum of Moving Images

Online Film Critics Society

Production Hub

StudentFilmMakers