Why Film?

• Film is a media format you are used to consuming.  It will help you better understand what it is you’re watching if you learn how it’s created.
• Film is a great way to preserve family history (especially with sound).
• Film production is a marketable skill for employment as many small businesses and large companies will find needs to have videos made.
• Young Men:  Can be used for cinematography merit badge.
• Young Women:  Can be used as a YW value project

Types of projects to consider producing:

• Time Lapse
• Family Car Ride
• Time Lapse Perseids Meteor Shower 2010
• Geminid Meteor Shower
• Stop Motion
• BYUI-This is why I don’t get any studying done
• Lego Stop Motion
• Monologue
• Ask a Ninja
• Stuffed Animals
• Bearlys Out for Dinner
• Sock Puppets
• Buck the Norm- Jacob Bateman
• Music Video
• Lindsey Stirling
• The Piano Guys
• Pomplamoose
• Montage
• Dian wedding
• Rainey’s Birth Day (mixed montage)
• 3D/CG
• Big Buck Bunny
• Created With Blender
• Download
• Tutorials
• Foley artist on a silent film
• (Royalty Free Silent Films Below)

Photography Basics

• Composition Basics
• Frame Rates (what do I record with)
• Film Basics:

Editing Basics

• Software:
• Sony Vegas (tutorials)
• iMovie (tutorials)
• Final Cut Pro X (tutorials)
• Open Shot -linux- (tutorials)

Editing Tricks and Techniques

• Ninja Vanish

• Layers/Multiple People

Resources

• Royalty Free Silent Films:
• Cops- Buster Keaton
• The Pawn Shop- Charlie Chaplin
• The General- Buster Keaton (download with easy youtube video downloader)
• Music
• Kevin MacLeod- Royalty Free
• Ronald Jenkees- Citation Required