Entries Tagged as ‘Film’

October 11, 2008

Film Club

FILMCLUB is a chance to enter the incredible, limitless cosmos of films – a rollercoaster ride through worlds that delight, challenge, inspire, unite and amaze.
FILMCLUB is a new service run by movie-lovers to introduce kids to the wonder of films. How? By helping teachers and pupils form clubs in schools to show fantastic movies from [...]

June 19, 2008

VLC Media Player

Many thanks to Zoe from Croft Primary for recommending VLC Media Player which is a free download. Zoe has tried it and says it is very easy to use and will allow you to take screen shots of DVDs.

June 10, 2008

Doctor Who Trailer Maker

Create your own Doctor Who trailer by dragging video clips, characters, sounds and music onto the timeline. Save and view. Great fun!

June 4, 2008

Using Intervideo WinDVD4 for capturing pictures from DVDs

I’ve been playing around watching clips of the Titanic for my class’s literacy and discovered that on this program you can capture pictures from the DVD and paste them into other documents.
Didn’t realise you could do this.  Wish I’d got it at school, we could have used it for our Honey I Shrunk the Kids [...]

May 16, 2008

Wildlife Filmmaker

Create your own wildlife films with National Geographic. Simply drag and drop clips, music, sounds onto the timeline and add your own text.

May 14, 2008

Screenshots from Windows Media Player

If you have ever tried to print screen from windows media player and just got a black screen, here is the answer.  Very useful for taking stills into other programs for discussion with students.Free simple way to capture Images from Windows Media Player

Open Window Media Player
Then go to Tools | Options
In Options, select [...]

May 5, 2008

Film Street

Useful guidance from Film Street on using the films to support units from the Revised Literacy Framework.

May 5, 2008

Convert You Tube Videos

How to convert a You Tube video into a file thats useable on a education network (a WMV file).

Go to Zamzar 
Upload the file you want to convert
specify the file type you want to change it to.

Zamzar emails you a link where you can download the file. Have a look at the how to video.

May 5, 2008

Brittanica Dreams

Find digital video shorts at Brittannica Dreams which links to another collection on YouTube and Machinima. Check out the Highwayman. Lovely use of sound. Useful IWB files to support this on Primary Framework site.

May 5, 2008

The Highwayman