Making a video presentation: Documentary Resources

Here is a super simple storyboard template using Google slides.

Three simple storyboarding templates to organize your content creation projects.

Don’t just vary your shot size: use different camera angles and positions as well.

Five shot sequence is a popular filming technique that uses five different shots to depict an activity. Here is a tutorial and examples of excellent student work.

Whether you’re recording your own practice for self-reflection, or putting together a student lesson to “flip” your class, here are tips for making sure you capture and produce great material.

Screencast asked its team to share their favorite best practices for creating higher quality screencasts. Without further ado, here are 24 top tips.

In this workshop/website you will: Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video; Locate appropriately licensed media to use in your story; Create the story quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use.

From Common Sense Media. Some examples of video essays.

Free royalty free stock footage is hard to find but we have compiled a list of some of the better sites that are offering a selection of video clips available for download and use in personal and commercial projects.

Locate the visual inspiration you need. Super fast!

Images with no known copyright restrictions from various cultural heritage institutions

Morguefile is a free photo archive “for creatives, by creatives.”

Free, public domain clip art.

Search now to download properly attributed, Creative Commons photos for school!

Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.

Royalty-free elements to enhance your videos in Camtasia

This Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use makes clear what documentary filmmakers currently regard as reasonable application of the copyright “fair use” doctrine.

This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy
concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.

CL-IPs is an educational YouTube series made by the law firm Mayer Brown International. The goal of the series is to help online content producers understand legal issues in the field of intellectual property and technology.

The Copyright Decision Tool helps teachers decide whether "fair dealing" permits classroom use of print materials, artistic works, or audiovisual materials without first getting copyright permission. The tool helps teachers determine whether a specific intended classroom use is allowed by the Fair Dealing Guidelines.

A resources on Fair Use from Stanford University.