My guys are going to start their media production exercises on Monday – all are doing video this year – so I thought I might trawl my browser and social bookmarks to get together a “top ten video production websites” list for them. In the end, I narrowed it down to ten good general sites plus another ten more focused ones…

General/Comprehensive

http://www.filmmaking.com/

http://www.filmmaking.net/

http://www.videouniversity.com/

http://www.cybercollege.org/tvp_ind.htm

http://www.cyberfilmschool.com/

http://www.theclapperboard.com/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_making_manual

http://www.microcinemascene.com/no-budget-film-school/

http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp

http://www.mediacollege.com/

http://www.dependentfilms.net/files.html

(is that eleven!?)

Quirkier/Focused

http://www.borgus.com/think/hitch.htm

http://www.triggerstreet.com/gyrobase/TriggerDigest?oid=1423320

http://www.lowel.com/edu/foundations_of_lighting.html

http://www.celtx.com/overview.html

http://www.diylife.com/2007/09/04/film-school-rigs-and-mounts/

http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/index.html

http://www.jamesarnett.com/sections.html

http://www.journerdism.com/index.php/2008/01/21/be-a-multimedia-mcguyver-101-diy-tools-and-techniques-for-cool-professional-photo-audio-and-video-gear-on-the-cheap/

http://www.proletariatpictures.com/r-101.html

Later next week, we’ll get into some post-production, so stay tuned for another bunch of top sites for ‘post’ …

JK