Chris High explains the why planning is vital to creating a successful film.

Pre-production pep-talk

Have you ever wanted to pick up a video camera and make a short video or film, but felt intimidated by your lack of knowledge? The explosion of film-making for websites and mobiles gives people and organisations the opportunity to tell their stories and show what they have to offer, at low cost.  This collection of exciting videos features The Open University’s experienced team of filmmakers, who will show you some of the craft secrets that underpin good filmmaking, and how professionals stay up to date. You will learn the basics of editing, how to conduct an interview, the role of the producer and other crew members and how to archive your finished project. 

This material forms part of The Open University course T156 Digital film school.

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The T156 team gets creative and shows you how Mary's life has changed since discovering The Magic of Filmmaking.

The Magic of Filmmaking

Chris High demonstrates how to connect three different types of digital cameras into both Mac and PC, and then how to import the media into various editing software.

Getting media onto your computer

Transcript -- Getting media onto your computer

This track is designed to introduce you to the iMovie user interface and also the first steps to importing media and building your first sequence.

Pre-production pep-talk

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