Introduction to Production

Beth CaseDigital Media Suite

Presentation can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/BethCase/introduction-to-production

Steps in digital production

• Pre-Production• Production• Post-Production

Pre-Production

Planning• Who is your audience?• What is your message?• Will you be creating your own content

(audio, video, photos)?• If doing group work, who is responsible for

which aspects?

Storyboarding

What will people:See?Hear (Music, Dialogue, Sound Effects) ?

For how long?

Production

Copyright – Public Domain

There are four common ways that works arrive in the public domain:• the copyright has expired• the copyright owner failed to follow copyright renewal rules• the copyright owner deliberately places it in the public domain,

known as “dedication,” or• copyright law does not protect this type of work.

Refer to Public Domain Chart at http://louisville.edu/copyright/-/files/publicdomainchart.pdf

Copyright – Creative CommonsAttribution

Attribution – No Derivatives

Attribution – Non Commercial - Share Alike

Attribution – Share Alike.

Attribution – Non Commercial

Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives

creativecommons.org

Finding Creative Commons Content

• Add “creative commons” to your search term• For music, add “royalty free”• Use Google advanced search• Flickr is a good source for photos

Copyright – Fair Use• Purpose• Nature• Amount• Market Effect

Fair Use is tricky. Stick to Public Domain, Creative Commons, or your own creations whenever possible.

https://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/ccmcguid.html

Post-Production

Premiere Demo

• Free 30-day trial available from Adobe.com• Available for both Mac and Windows• iMovie and MovieMaker are also available in the

DMS

Captioning• Transcript• Divide Lines• Synchronize with video• Easy to do in YouTube!• Step-by-step handouts available in

the DMS

Questions