[3.2] Visual Literacy: Starting with the Image

[3.3] Studying Images through Digital Editing

[3.4] Comics and Film Technique

[3.5] Teaching Film Technique

[3.5a] Lighting

[3.5b] Editing

[3.5c] Sound

[3.6] Exploring Film Technique through Video Production

[3.7] Exploring Editing Through Storyboards and Animations

[3.8] Analysis/Evaluation of Film Technique

[3.9] Film History

[3.10] Television History

[3.11] Responding to and Analyzing Films

[3.12] Fostering Classroom Discussions of Film

[3.13] Image-Sound Skim

[3.14] Writing about Films

[3.15] Film Study Resources

[3.16] Film Journals/Magazines

[3.17] References

[3.18] Teaching Activities

Script-writing resources:

[3.7.1] Filmmaking 101: Writing a Script
[3.7.2] Published screenplays of current films
[3.7.3] Interactive Simulation: creating a script
[3.7.4] Scriptware: scriptwriting software: free demo
[3.7.5] Sriptwriting shareware, ScreenForge
[3.7.6] Scriptwriting shareware, ScreenPro 97 2.0a
[3.7.7] Drew's Script-o-rama

[3.7.7a] All Movie Scripts
[3.7.7b]  Internet Movie Script Database (scripts from films)
[3.7.7c]  SimplyScripts: free scripts

Storyboarding resources:

[3.7.8] Atomic Learning's Video StoryBoard Pro: free storyboard-creation software program
[3.7.9] Directors Board: free storyboard software
[3.7.10] Ian Pegler: free storyboard/scriptwriting software
[3.7.11] Interactive Storyboard
[3.7.12] Springboard
[3.7.13] Creating Storyboards
[3.7.14] Laurie Brooker: How to Draw Storyboards
[3.7.15] Acting with a Pencil: Storyboarding Your Movie

On-line samples of storyboards:

[3.7.16] Ted B. Studio
[3.7.17] Child: A film based on a children's book
[3.7.18] BBC: My Life in Film: sample storyboards
[3.7.19] Gerald Forton's Storyboards
[3.7.20] A student film: Fat Man and Little Boys
[3.7.21] Webquest: Lights, Camera, Film Production
[3.7.22] Television: Critical Methods and Applications: student storyboards

Animation in movies:

[3.7.23] Wikepedia: Stop Motion
[3.7.24] How to make a movie with digital stills
[3.7.25] Clay Animation Discussion Group
[3.7.26] How to Create Clay Animation in 5 Easy Steps
[3.7.27] animateclay.com

[3.7.28] Random motion - a flip animation site.

Computer animation examples:

[3.7.29] The Lord of the Rings films
[3.7.30] The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded
[3.7.31] PBS Nova: Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond

[3.7.44a] A PBS Nova program about animation

[3.7.45] The Magic of Animation lesson by Ann Ayers, of Coral Springs High School, in Broward County, Florida, had students, working in groups, create characters who would serve as the basis for clay or cutout animations based on a storyboard idea.

Disney feature animation films:

[3.7.47] The Big Cartoon Database
[3.7.48] Yahoo Directory: Disney Animated Movies
[3.7.49] Cartoon Animation Art [original cels employed in Disney films]
[3.7.50] Disney-film links/clip art

Cartoon resources:

[3.7.51] The Simpsons
[3.7.52] Cartoon Network
[3.7.53] 4Kids: TV cartoons
[3.7.54] Gender Stereotypes in Children's Television Cartoons [Kelly Eick (1998)]
[3.7.55] “Violence Finds a Niche in Children’s Cartoons” [Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, January 28, 2001]

[3.7.56] iMovie

[3.7.57] Adobe PremierTM

[3.7.58] After EffectsTM

[3.7.59] Final Cut ProTM

[3.7.60] MS Movie MakerTM

[3.7.61] Tom Barrance on creating iMovies.

[3.7.62] 11th graders writing in Adam Kinory’s English class in The School of the Future in Manhattan conducted an analysis of motifs in the film Inherit the Wind about the Scopes Trial.

Integrating film into the classroom:

[3.7.63] Daniel Anderson: Integrating digital stills into writing
[3.7.64] Heather Ross: Using iMovie productions in writing classes
[3.7.65] Apple Learning Interchange: iLife productions
[3.7.66] Apple Learning Interchange: Videography for Educators
[3.7.67] PBS Listen Up! Youth Media Network
[3.7.68] Pier Marton, Washington University, Video Production
[3.7.69] Education Video Center: clips of ten student-produced videos
[3.7.70]  NPR: Behind the Scenes with Film Editor Walter Murch
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