Making Movies using Sony Vegas or Power Director


Made using the following site:
http://www.xtranormal.com/

How to make a Movie?
Here are some tips and tricks you might want to think about.

• Equipment
• Script
• Storyboard
• Actors / Animation
• Music
• Copyright - Creative Commons

Introduction & Basics

Both these come from YouTube and both are from a collection of videos about film making so you may want to check them out.

Equipment

• Shot List - Storyboard
• Prop List
• Character List
• Camera / Video camera
• Tri-pod
• Batteries - Fully charged
• Microphones
• Cables
• Memory cards/chips
• Lighting
• Sound
• Computer Software

Sony Vegas

Here are just a short selection of YouTube videos & presentations I have found about Sony Vegas:
Tutorials, tips and tricks. I am sure you can find many more on the internet.

Script

Free script writting program for you to download

• http://celtx.com/overview.html

Storyboard

Storyboards are visual representations of what your end user (learner) will see on the computer screen. They are small sketches of and tiny versions of what your screens will look like.

• You create them in the planning stage of your project. You as the designer create these so that you or the client or both can see what the project will look like before it is actually created.
• Storyboards are meant to be a time-saving device. So that you know what you are going to be doing when you are filming, the actors know, the cameraman knows and the director will use them to make sure everybody is in the correct place doing the right thing.

Storyboards are also useful when working with a team. A picture is worth a thousand words--meaning, you can describe what you are going to do, but it is better to show me.



Some examples of Storyboards:

Taken from the following site: http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_3.html

Actors / Animation

An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an "actor," ὑποκριτής (hypokrites), means literally "one who interprets" in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor
Using a green screen to create drawless animation


For some simple animations here are some links:

• Doink create fun annimations with this incredible free animation / drawing tool
• Pencil Animation -Download Only
• Dfilm easily create fun films
• Fluxtime more animation fun
• Goanimate animate easily
• Flipbook create fun flipbooks with this tools
• Xtranormal create movies with real characters
• Canvastic - create simple animations on this free canvas

Music & Video

For photos

• http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
• http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

For video

• www.archive.org
• http://lab.wgbh.org/sandbox/
• http://www.pdcomedy.com/

For music

• www.freeplaymusic.com
• http://www.stonewashed.net/free-music.html

Copyright - Creative Commons

All music, video and pictures that you collect from other sources (eg off the Internet) MUST be copyright free ...

• so nothing from YouTube

Task

• Who owns videos on you tube? The person who has created them? The person who has posted them? What doe public mean?

Special Effects

Watch this video about filming the beach scene for the film Private Ryan

Resources

http://climbingkevin.googlepages.com/multimediaelectives
Four Minute Film School, loads of clips on youtube and links here from this site. I have added a number of their videos above.
http://www.indymogul.com/episode/FS_20080307

Students Work

Extension Task

Watch the following video: