Making Videos with Teens

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Making Videos with Teens

• Des Moines Public Library
• Youth Services Staff
• Teen Advisory Board

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Videos with Teens

• Why make a video?
• Getting Creative
• Filming Editing
• Showing Off!
• What Our Teens Have to Say

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Why Make a Video?

• Technology brings them in.
• Creative ownership.
• Advertising.

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Getting Creative

• Scriptwriting, casting, props.
• Have local experts come in and speak about
  filming.
  
• Get permission from parents prior to filming.
• Ideas
• http//wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Press_Play_Ac
  tivity_Ideas
  
• Commercials, booktalks/trailers, interviews,
  podcasts, film festivals
  
• http//celebratingpeace.org/videos.cfm (YouTube
  contest)
  
• http//www.wordia.com/

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Filming Editing

• Using the Flip Camera
• www.theflip.com
• Windows Movie Maker
• Audacity
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Sound Clips
• http//www.freesound.org/index.php
• http//www.soundsnap.com/
• Google search for public domain sound
  files/clips
  

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Showing Off!

• Have a Red Carpet event!
• Invite family, friends, and the press.
• Anyone have a big screen?
• Post your video on your librarys webpage,
  MySpace page, and YouTube.
  
• Share with others in the library profession
• Local wikis, YALSA, etc.

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And now, our teens