Teaching video production to children and teens in Grades 1-12. Tips for using video editing software such as Blender.
Blender has tools on the Preview Toolbar that make video editing simple. With them you can easily move, rotate, or scale objects on the canvas. This lets beginners create high-quality advertisements, public service announcements, or demonstrations. To start you need to open the Blender program. Next, from the File menu, select New. Then, click Video …
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Are you new to the Blender video editing window? Blender is an open-source software used to edit videos, animate objects, and create 3D models. It is free to download and install on Windows and macOS devices, making it ideal for schools interested in teaching video production. Video editing software is often taught to Film Studies …
Media literacy skills are the competencies needed to critically analyze and evaluate online content. Our students are a generation of young people who are enveloped with media content daily. As it is such a substantial part of their lives, their media exposure has a considerable effect. Developing media awareness is an essential skill for both …
Video production lessons, from brainstorming to filming to editing. Consumers, and young people especially, are spending greater amounts of time online. As a result, digital marketing has overshadowed traditional advertising, such as TV commercials, billboard ads, and magazine or newspaper promotions. So it is critical that students build media literacy expertise. What better way to …
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Blender Tip #2: Picture In Picture I have been having fun as a beginner learning about Blender‘s video editor. But I’ve also come across some nifty techniques that will be sure to make your videos capture the viewers’ attention. Best of all, they are easy to do! In my first post about Blender, Video Editing …
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Blender Tip #1: View Thumbnails Here’s an easy way to simplify video editing in Blender. It will help you to see your video shots clearly and identify changes that you want to make. The trick is to turn those solid bars of video into actual thumbnails of the frames! In my previous post, I encouraged …
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Blender: An Online Alternative to Windows Movie Maker Teachers and students in all grades loved Windows Movie Maker as the ideal fun video editing program for middle school students. Pre-installed on Windows devices, it had fun special effects, was easy to learn, and importantly for schools, it was free. But Movie Maker was discontinued, and …
Today’s students are media savvy. They listen to music, take pictures with cell phones and cameras, play electronic games, use the computer to download songs and view videos, and watch movies and television. They are avid consumers of a variety of media in their leisure time. What better way of hooking their interest than to …
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