AFI SCREEN EDUCATION

You have to check out what must be more than two hours of excellent  flim production resources and ‘how to’ videos that can be found at the american film institute’s screen education website.

There is also a Downloadable Production Book to support the streamed videos.

There is a blog at blog.afi.com/screened. I think there are more even more resources at … afi.edu/demo

AFI ScreenNation

Then there is their new site, which is frankly very exciting as well …. screennation.afi.com

AFI Screen Nation, while providing lots of learning resources for video production too, also functions as an Exhibition Site. But AFI values storytelling more than YouTube, and your students may well like to upload their media products to a place like this which arguably respects storytelling craft a whole lot more.

There are new film-making challenges released every few months (only US students may enter at this stage).

All videos on the site are embeddable in blogs and you can create playlists of videos of all students at your school or by genre etc.

There are many good instructional videos produced by AFI and Discovery and users (teachers and students) can put their own “how to” videos up here too.

You can also embeddable their video player in your own blog or website.

Google certified teacher,  Frank Guttler  (fguttler at afi dot com), took us through the sites, and the plethora of fantastic resources they contain, today at NECC 2008 in “AFI Screen Education Center: Digital Filmmaking in the Core Curriculum” – my last session before the closing keynote.

I’m glad I attended even though I was exhausted after three straight days of incredible buzz here at NECC.