There’s a show on Nickelodeon called iCarly that my daughter likes to watch. The whole premise of the show is that Carly (Miranda Cosgrove – who is a talented kid) and her friends make and broadcast a live web show from an attic. The web show is accompanied by a website that host all their previous shows and allow interaction with their “fans”.
My daughter wanted to go to the website and I was surprised to find that Nick is allowing kids to make their own videos, send them in and if they’re “good enough”, they can appear on the icarly website and/or TV show.
Now, the thing is, kids don’t know anything about making web videos… so, Nickelodeon has a few videos explaining to kids how to do their own web shows (note to Nick – give people the ability to EMBED your videos and access them via straight links without having to right click to find it if you want more publicity).
What results is quite a few quick, concise and most importantly, simple enough for a kid to understand, tips and tricks to making videos for use on the web…
Picking a theme
Being prepared – information about scripts, stage direction and more
Picking your co-stars for your webcast
Make sure that you rehearse your web show before doing it
How to use lighting to improve the end output of your video
I hope like hell that they put more of them out because these were probably the easiest to understand tutorials I’ve ever seen about making online videos, though these are some decent video making tutorials as well. If anyone has some links to simple – key word being SIMPLE online video making tutorials that deal with sound, lighting, etc. that are aimed at beginners (and not in-depth tutorials on shooting underwater) feel free to drop them in the comments below.
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