Making Movie

Magic with
Tweens and
Teens @ Your
Library
Karen Jensen, MLS
www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com

Teens want and need more tech skills

see Digital Divide or Digital Gap
Education is very STEM focused
21st Century Literacy Skills
40 Developmental Assets
Libraries need to be relevant and meet the
information needs of teens, which means more
technology
Allows teens to learn tech skills while tapping
into their creative side & engage in self
expression

Why movies?

If I Can Do It, YOU Can

Do It
How I Am Learning
Trial and error
Teens in my library they love making Lego movies
My niece: The Mustache Man YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzudJH9N0mXp150zW_zNjrQ

Some Basic Tools You

Will Need to Begin
A recording device of some kind; I use either an iPhone or an iPad
An editing program or app
A way to share your completed product; can be via social media,
embedded on a website, shown in house on a looping video feed, via a
film festival
More sophisticated tools include: a green screen, lights, costumes, etc.
I created a simple commercial for my TSRC
using scrapbook paper and the GIFfer app.
Easy to shoot, create, and share. It took 15
minutes.

Getting Started

1. Get an idea
2. Write a script
3. Visualize every
shot (storyboard)
4. Plan
5. Camera work
6. Lighting & Sound
7. Directing
8. Editing
9. Show your film!

Tools You Can Use:

Where to

share your movies

6 second videos
Popular with teens
Example: What is Teen Advocacy?
6 Second Booktalks
Resources: How to Vine ;
How to Add Special Effects to Vine ;
Ultimate Guide to Vine
; 6 Tips for Making an Awesome Vine Video ;
6 Ways Your Brand Can Use Vine
Examples: Buzzfeeds
10 People You Should Follow on Vine
See also:
Instagram Video

Tools You Can Use:

Where to

share your movies

More popular than FB

Arranged by channels
First online awards show
Resources:
Video App: iMovie
6 Biggest Mistakes Brands Make
on YouTube
;
How to YouTube with Success
10 Essential YouTube Tips and Tri
cks

Tools You Can Use:

Basic Apps

and Programs to Create

Very basic stop motion

My favorite
GIF app is
GIFFER

It stands for Graphics Interchange

Format. They are those moving
picture thingies that you see around
the web.
GifBoom (app!)
Cinemagram (also an app!)
Gizmodo
: How to Make a GIF in 5 Easy Steps
Free Online GIFmaker
Make a GIF
Mashable
: Make Reaction GIFs with These 7 T
ools

Using GIFfer
1. Take your series of photos
2. If you want, you can manipulate them in other photo
apps before uploading them into GIFfer
3. GIFfer allows you to change the order, slow down or
speed up, add filters, add borders, etc.
4. When you publish you GIF, it gives you links and other
ways to share your GIF

More Advanced Stop Motion

Review: 8 Great Stop Motion Apps

Brickfilms:
7 Free iPhone and iPad Stop Motio
n Apps
The key is to have a pretty
detailed idea about what you want
it too look like. You set up your
initial shot. Then you make tiny
little movements to show the
progression of the shot.
You can do a drawing, Lego
movies, playdoh, etc.

My Stop Motion
Maker Station
I created a simple background
using paper and an acrylic sign
holder.
Teen were invited to create a
short film using Legos. We
bought some superheroes for
the SRC theme.
A variety of books and a short
instruction sheet were provided
to help guide the process.
We had a great time. It was
quick and easy.

iMovie: Trailers
iMovie is an iPhone, iPad and Mac app. It works in 2 ways . . .
Preset trailers by a variety of themes. I love this feature.

iMovie: Video Editing

Screenshot of me making a short Lego
film on my iPhone using iMovie
Things you can do:
Combine video clips
Slow Mo, Time Lapse
Add sounds and music
Add text
Add filters
Create intro and outro credits

Some Other Movie Making

Resources
Animoto
An online program. There is a free version and a pro version. If you like
it, buy the pro version because you can do more. Bonus: it has cleared
music you can use.

Movie Maker (Microsoft)

Comes with most PCs and laptops

Power Director
Costs around $50
Reviews of the top video editing software, Power Director comes out on
top

Super 8
An app that creates old school shaky, grainy film

Hangouts Live
on Air
You can use Google Hangouts to
host video calls.
To use a Google Hangout, you have
to have a Google+ account and a
YouTube account. Go through the
steps of connecting the two.
When you host a Google Hangout
Live on Air, it is automatically
recorded to your YouTube account.
This is a great way to host an
author visit or remote author panel.

My Top 5 Movie Making

Tools
1. How to Make a Movie in 10 Easy Lessons by Robert Blofield
2. GIFfer
3. StopMotion
4. iMovie
More info:
http://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2013/01/the-mystery-of-movie-making-madesimple-theres-an-app-for-that
/

5. Power Director
Reviews of the top video editing software, Power Director comes out on top

Source:
http://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2015/05/take-5-5-tools-for-movie-m
aking-in-your-makerspace-quarto-week-makerspace

Green Screen 101

1. Set up your green screen and shot

2. Film your shot
3. Edit your shot
Green screen Tutorial and Free Software: http://
filmora.wondershare.com/video-editing-tips/free-green-screen-software.htm
l

5 Things You Can Try to

Get Started
1. Upload your upcoming program flyers onto a loop and show them in
your teen area and on a screen by your circulation desks.
2. Make a short Lego stop motion movie with your tweens and teens
using GIFfer
3. Make a short commercial for your teen area or an upcoming teen
program. Or a highlight reel of your Summer Reading Program.
4. Make a parody video for example, Its All About them Books
5. Do a craft tutorial

Teen Film Festival

Teens can create short films using a variety of
tools, like iMovie, Movie Maker, Vine,
Instagram Video and more.
You can make it a theme: Say, make a video
about why the library is important to you. Or
do a booktrailer festival. Or you can keep it
open ended.
Resources
Want to make a movie? There's an app for that
of course. Here's more on iMovie.
Here's some information on making
book trailers.
Here's a YouTube clip on making a Short Film
Clipcanvas on How to Make a Short Movie
Top 5 Online Tools to Make a Online for Free
How to Use Windwos Movie Maker

Hosting a Teen Fi
lm Festival

A Maker Space Example

Cincinnati Public
Library

Some TLT mini movie

examples
TLT YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TLTchannel
Oh the Places Youll Read, Solve the Mystery and A Teen Librarians Worst
Nightmare all made using the iMovie trailer feature
Karen Jensen, MLS Channel: https://
www.youtube.com/channel/UCUYHcdMyjmcYc8NubnEyiYw
If you do a live Google Hangout on Air, it is automatically recorded to your
connected YouTube channel. (A good way to host a remote author
panel/visit)
GIFfer:
First Giffer movie w/teens http://giffer.co/g/sRdEDNSb ; TSRC Ad http://
www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/files/2015/05/plmvkctsrcad.gif
How to: How I made my TSRC ad; GIFfer review