STUDENTS: This page features a selection of links your tutors have recommended as useful reading/viewing for the course. Feel free to add to these with links you find helpful or inspirational (PLEASE DELETE THIS NOTE AFTER READING)
COURSE LINKS
Media Production Twitter feed – news and useful links about the course
Media Production facebook page – a place to share our stuff on facebook
Coventry East Asian Film Society
STAFF LINKS
Mez Packer’s website http://www.mezpacker.co.uk, Bookmarks on Delicious and twitter feed
Ken Fero – Migrant Media https://vimeo.com/user6137135
MEDIA PRODUCTION RESOURCES
Creative Cow
peer to peer support community for media production professionals
Mandy.com
Film and TV production resources – good source of professional experience opportunities
Guerilla Filmmaker.com
a website full of everything you need to know about being an independent filmmaker in the world today
IMPA AWARDS
Movie Poster Awards and all the Latest Movie Posters
British Films
British Council Film’s British Films Directory is an extensive searchable database of new British films.
FilmSound.org
the most important forum on the planet for practitioners of sound design
ScriptORama
Over 10000 free movie scripts, transcripts, screenplays, teleplays and more
Bill Myers Online
information, articles, tips, tools and techniques on product development
BFI online
The British Film Institute archive, cinemas, festivals, films, publications and learning resources
Rhizome.org
the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends
Online tools:
- Pixir.com – a free online image editor
- Prezi.com – online presentation creator
- Soundcloud – audio sharing site
- Audioboo – audio sharing site
- Flickr.com – online photosharing network
- Camtasia – screen capture software (free 30 day trial)
- Camstudio – screen capture software (freeware)
- XtraNormal – this is fun Movie software
Data Visualisation – links and tools/apps:
- Wordle – a site that generates “word clouds” from text that you provide.
- IBM’s Visualisation tools – experimental data visualisations
- Create a data visualisation in 3 steps (Many Eyes) – how to create a data visualisation on the Many Eyes website
- Google’s Visualisation Tools – galleries and tools for creating data visualisations
- Best Visualisation Projects – great examples of creative data visualisation
- Information is Beautiful – graphic data visualisations from a wide variety of sources
- Chris Jordan’s images – incredible artworks incorporating data visualisation
Surveys online:
- Survey Monkey – create and publish online surveys
- Kwik Survey – online survey tool
- Zoomerang – online survey tool
Shorten your links:
- TinyUrl – online utility for shortening long web links
Help with your tasks:
- Adding content to your Googlemap
- Uploading videos to Youtube
- Vimeo Help Centre (for uploading/encoding etc)
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