Student DV Segments: Video production tips
There's always something new to learn when you're a student video producer. The following videos will give you some fresh tips and techniques to improve or fine tune your work.
Animation Techniques: Persistence of Vision
Teacher Shawn Sullivan of Sheldon High School dives into the history of animation to explain the concept of persistence of vision. Viewers learn about early animation techniques that used thaumatropes, zoetropes and praxinoscopes. Learn how to make their own thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear combined when the card is twirled rapidly, illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
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Austin Madison Interview
Sheldon High School graduate Austin Madison just finished his final year at Cal Arts. Austin was recently hired by Pixar Animation Studios, creators of Toy Story, The Incredibles and Cars. In this interview, Austin shares one of his portfolio pieces and talks about his recent internship.
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The Shape Game
SECC and Sheldon High School’s K9 Studios won a Hometown Video Award in instructional/training for this training segment. In the step-by-step segment, Sheldon High School’s Shawn Sullivan and his students show viewers how to create their own characters from a circle, square and triangle and how each shape is the basis for a different kind of character.
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Training Your Eye to Draw
Sheldon High School’s Shawn Sullivan shows you how to draw the same image in multiple frames.
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Sheldon High School's Glide-Cam
What if a video tripod were attached to your body? Students are using this new tool to create smooth, moving shots that go where they go.
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Animating a Bouncing Ball
Teacher Shawn Sullivan and his Sheldon High School students teach you the first project animators learn — how to animate a bouncing ball.
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Center High School's Theatre
Center High School has hosted SECC’s SEVA Award Night in their theater for several years. One of the newest high school theaters in Sacramento County, Center’s facility is not only a theater but a classroom as well.
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Center High School's Jimmy Jib
If you want to get your camera up and over things to shoot, learn about using a boom camera.
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Christian Brother's High School KBFT News
Students produce all phases of a live, on-campus news program three times each week.
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TV News Rio Behind the Scenes
Students produce a weekly program about school news.
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Sheldon High School's Flipbook Animation
Have you ever wanted to make your own animation? Shawn Sullivan from Sheldon High School and two of his students show how with some basic supplies: a pencil, note cards and a binder clip.
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