Video Making for Kids

A Guide for Kids and Teens who want to make movies and then post them on the Internet

 

"The Teenagers Guide to Making Movies for the Net"

This is a special section for parents to help them guide their teenagers to safely make and post great videos for the Internet. This new section covers the basics of video shooting, audio capture and video editing, and provides many helpful hints for those parents who want their kids and teens to safely create their own videos for the net more

 

Tips & Tricks

 

 

Cool Products and Reviews

 

Pure Digital Technologies introduced the new Flip Video ULTRA Camcorder, a new digital video capture device that may revolutionize how you shoot and share video.  This remarkably simple and affordable camcorder features a major advance in video sharing technology combined with an ultra-portable design and easy-to-use capture functionality.

Developed with Internet video sharing software integrated directly into the device, Flip Video is the first camcorder to seamlessly upload directly to YouTube, and other online video sharing sites. READ THE REVIEW

Here is an interesting site. FamilyVideos.  Based in the UK, it provides a lot of good information on how to create video and family movies. According to the site, "FamilyVideos contains over 60 articles all written by our team of experts and we add around 10 new articles each month."  www.familyvideos.co.uk/home.htm 

Eyespot may be the world's most fun and interactive video web site...This site is a blast - kids can pick and chose from a wide range of video and audio clips to create their own video mash-ups - mix them, cut them, slam them together - your can do all this all online and then share them with friends, family and the rest of the world  more

Edit Your Videos Automatically - How to quickly and easily create cool looking music videos - Great for little kids and big kids as well

ArcSoft Funhouse is an awesomely fun and amazingly easy to use photo blending solution for creative and wild digital images. For both Macs and PCs

It makes it easy to seamlessly combine seamlessly two or more photos to create funny or realistic scenes. Make yourself a star quarterback or an arena rock star. Put friends and family members on $100 bills, or swap all of their heads and bodies. Funhouse walks you through adding your personal photos into built-in or custom templates to print, email, and share these digital imaging creations. Add captions, titles, quotes - full text editing lets you include colorful taglines and descriptions. MORE

 

The Young@Heart Chorus, whose members range from 73 to 92 years old. Singing songs they shouldn't even know, at an age when they're expected to be sitting quietly somewhere, they subvert all accepted notions of old and young. read the story, see the videos

 

News Announcements

This looks pretty cool. Now kids can direct, produce and screen their own action movies with the Marvel Heroes Ani-Movie from Jazwares, Inc. Using the latest stop motion, digital technology, the Ani-Movie lets young filmmakers create and edit action-packed movies and view them on their own television OR upload it to YouTube! more