Follow links to the web sites below to develop your video-making skills.

Useful Links:

  • Adobe Youth Voices: Adobe makes grants available to youth media organizations around the world
  • Animation World Network: The website for all things animated, this source gives advice on animation and provides links to other animation websites
  • Cinema En Curs:  Cinema En Curs is a program of film schools and public institutions founded in Catalonia in 2005. The project is divided into three main areas: 1) Workshops taught by a professional team of teachers and filmmakers for pupils aged between 9 and 18 years old of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds ; 2)  Laboratory experiments, research, and web resources www.fentcinema.org to work in film education; and 3) Training for teachers.
  • Cine y Salud: Tips and hints on the creation of a short film
  • Danosongs: Free music to use in your video, royalty-free (just make sure to credit the website).
  • Filmmaking.com: This website explains the various kinds of equipment needed to make videos, and includes a database on grants available to filmmakers
  • Filmmaking.net: This website is full of different resources on making films. There is a discussion area where specific questions can be answered by other filmmakers and the FAQ section offers useful tips on all things film-related
  • Make Movies: Website gives online lessons in a variety of areas from animation to scriptwriting
  • No Film School: provides regular newsletter with excellent advice on creating and producing video
  • Seat Up: Kids guide to making movies
  • Smart Film School: A complete video course with 100 short video lessons that users can have on their phone. This ´film school-in-a-pocket´ empowers NGOs, schools and organizations to provide high quality video training to anyone with a smartphone.
  • Studentfilmmakers.com: provides a huge range of information and links for video making
  • Videomaker: A guide to creating and publishing great video
  • Witness Video Advocacy Tools Provides strategies for using videos in advocacy work. The ‘Video for Change’ video is an overview of how to most effectively use video media in advocating for human rights – it is available in English, French and Spanish
  • Witness Video Technical Tools Provides information on using technical tools in the making of videos.