Citizen filmmaking
Citizen Filmmaking Workshop & Festival Resource Page
The Media Giraffe Project summit/conference at UMass Amherst presents a half-day Citizen Filmmaking Workshop & Festival on the afternoon of Thurs., June 29, 2006 at Amherst, Mass. For details see the description page.
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Here is a tentative schedule of workshops, including information about the topics covered and the invited participants.
12:30-1:45 Intro to online filmmaking
We will talk about shooting films using consumer digital camcorders, digital cameras that shoot video, cellphones. We will talk about doing editting with tools like iMovies, Movie Maker and other tools out there. We will also spend time talking about different types of encoding.
We will also have a brief discussion about animation techniques, including the use of machinima and 3D rendering tools.
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Panelists
- Aldon Hynes
2:00-3:45 Distribution workshops
Once you have shot and editted film, how do you get these distributed? We will talk about using sites like YouTube, blip.tv, Castpost, Clipshack, DailyMotion, vSocial, Google videos, archive.org to store and share videos. We will talk about projects like the those of Participatory Culture Foundation and we will talk about reaching beyond the online world to community access and beyond.
Panelists
- George White Center for Communications and Community
- Mike Hudack, Blip.TV
- Holmes Wilson, Participatory Culture Foundation - Get Democracy
- Liz Dupont-Diehl, Lamont Campaign.
4:00-5:30 Keynote presentation and viewing of noteworthy citizens' videos
Once we have spoken about how more people can start producing and distributing better citizen made films, we will celebrate some of the exciting work that has been done already.
Keyspeakers
- Deborah Scranton, producer of The War Tapes
- Julie Dobrow, Director of Communications and Media Studies Program at Tufts
- Stephen Wilmarth, Director of Center for 21st Century Skills
- Rob Williams, Project Harmony
