Making Media
For professional media-makers' associations organized by gender, race/ethnicity or sexual orientation, see Representation.
DIY (do-it-yourself) media posting sites
This
is not a comprehensive list -- this category grows faster than we can keep up. This page at Econsultant (although not updated since July 2006) lists 62 video services as well as links to blogging services, cooperative distribution services, music services, streaming services, podcasting services, vblogging services and much more.
BlipTV -- "Your Video, your way." A video-sharing site whose goal is "to change the world by bringing excellent free video publishing services to people."
DigitalPodcast.com -- as the name implies, a site for posting podcasts.
Eyespot -- "Movie making for all of us."
Google Video -- the big one.
Grouper -- "Watch. Share. Create." For video.
JumpCut -- "Make Amazing Movies Online."
Motionbox -- "The best way to view and share personal video online." Allows you to broadcast for everyone to see or just share it privately.
OurMedia: Billed as "The Global Home for Grassroots Media," this site doesn't just let you post your stuff, it helps you learn about all the different forms of media and how to create and distribute them on the Web. Features a Personal Media Learning Center with great how-to information on Video (
how to create a videoblog; editing video; publish your movie; and more); Audio (how to create a podcast; editing and compressing audio; podsafe music and audio clips; where to find podcasts; get listed in iTunes); Multimedia (how to screencast; how to create a digital story; where to see digital stories);
Images (digital photography tips; your rights as a photographer in public places); and Text (how to write for the Web; how to start a blog; how to gain visibility on the Web).
Revver -- "Revverize your videos. Share them with the world. Make money."
Videoegg -- "Video publishing over easy."
Vimeo -- "A really good site for people who like video, and other people."
YouTube -- "Broadcast Yourself."
Youth media
production resources
Adventures in Television is "a unique media production camp that teaches youth ages 12-17 to harness the power of television media while engaging in and understanding the value of community service." The toolkit, developed by Portland Community Media, looks like a great, inexpensively priced resource for anyone try to figure out how to start a kids' TV production program. The web site doesn't feel real user-friendly, but don't let that deter you from checking it out.
California
Student Media & MultiMedia Festival is the nation's oldest
student media festival, with more than 7,000 participating in 2004.
The Director in the Classroom has a extensive calendar of student film festivals.
iEARN: International Education and Resource Network Started in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Just
Think Foundation A well-run, San Francisco-based organization that does great work. They accurately describe themselves as "a dynamic non-profit, dedicated to teaching young people literacy for the 21st century by providing them with the skills to be critical thinkers and creative producers." Just Think has developed curricula and delivered media literacy education programs in-school, after-school and online in diverse communities locally, nationally and internationally since 1995.
Listen Up! Youth Media
Network is a must-visit for youth media makers and advisors who work with them. Housed on the PBS site, Listen Up! offers extensive resources including a calendar of youth media events and a free monthly email for young media producers with "the latest info on youth media production, deadlines for upcoming festivals, funding opportunities and other important media events." Their "Groovy Little Youth Media Sourcebook: Strategies and Techniques from the Listen Up! Network" provides tips, ideas, methods and activities that members of the Listen Up! Youth Media Network find particularly useful in creating and facilitating successful programs.
MAGIC:
Media Activities and Good Ideas by, with and for Children. This
extraordinary international website, part of UNICEF (United Nations
Children's Fund), shows how far America has to go in understanding
and dealing with media issues around children. It's described as
"UNICEF's response to the Oslo Challenge of 1999, which called on
media professionals, educators, governments, organizations, parents,
children and young people themselves to recognize the enormous potential
of media to make the world a better place for children." Click on
material for children, parents, teachers, governments, media, the
private sector; a database of media projects by, with and for children;
a discussion group, and much more.
MediaRights has an outstanding website at Youth Media Distribution. Their online Youth Video Distribution Toolkit has chapters on Getting Started, Your Audience, Money, Legal Issues, Marketing, Showing Your Work and more.
PopAndPolitics.com has morphed from a website edited by author and journalist Farai Chideya into a journalism education project.
In affiliation with San Francisco State University, PopandPolitics.com is "tapping into a fresh supply of young reporters willing to ask tough questions and re-frame the debate. SF State's got an award-winning journalism program, plus an economically and ethnically diverse student body. We are working with the university's Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism on developing curricula and job-training programs for the next generation of political journalists."
Reel Grrls is an award-winning after-school media and technology training program that empowers teenage girls (ages 13-19) in the Puget Sound (Washington state, U.S.) to critique media images and to gain video technology skills in a safe, open environment, mentored by a network of multi-cultural women media professionals.
Wiretap, an online magazine by and for socially conscious youth, is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. You can list your film, new media, radio or digital story and they'll link to your website. Info on festivals, internships and independent media activist campaigns.
Young
People's Media Network - a "blogspot" for for news
and views concerning Youth Media in Europe and Central Asia.
Independent (Indy) Media & Media Arts
Alternet is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. The online magazine features news that you won't find from other sources, opinion and investigative journalism.
The Action Coalition for
Media Education (ACME) has good resources
for independent media producers.
Center for Media Literacy CML’s Reading Room has good articles and reports on the arts and media arts . Also, utilizing its MediaLit Kit framework, the Center for Media Literacy "provides curricula, professional development, implementation and research to prepare educators, parents and children with the media literacy skills necessary to be enlightened, engaged citizens of a global media culture."
Independent
Media Center - The Indymedia international site is "a collective
of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering
grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media
outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings
of truth."
MediaRights is an outstanding website with many resources for indy filmmakers. List your film and they'll link to your website. Distribute your short through the Media That Matters Film Festival. Budget and build your distribution campaign with their Outreach Toolkit. Reach activists, nonprofits, libraries and schools through this site.
Project Think Different says they "support a new pop culture that's about human beings, not dollar bills. A pop culture where it’s hip to be engaged, where the new cool is being true to your self, your community, and your world. We are musicians, video and film producers, directors, spoken word artists, educators, community activists, and allied organizations—and we are you. If you’re sick of what’s being dished out and tired of waiting for something to change—join us. We’re making change happen!" This is a Boston, Mass.-based group that uses music, film, and video, to " create, fine-tune and disseminate new cultural messages that promote positive action."
The Proscenia Newsletter is a free online newsletter available to those interested in film, video, sound, and multimedia design. It contains no advertising. Our mission is to provide news, events, and information about employment opportunities in media. The Newsletter contains no commercial advertising.
Community
Media
Alliance
for Community Media -the organization for community access (cable)
television. Information and resources, including a discussion listserv.
IndyLink is your dial-up ISP and web hosting alternative to Big Media. If dial-up is the only internet access available to you, this is a great alternative to giving your money to faceless mega-corporations. IndyLink is a non-profit based in North Carolina with local dial-up access numbers all over the United States. Inexpensive web hosting for your website is also available. Their tech support is here in the U.S., not on the other side of the planet. This group lets you feel good about spending your money to support local community-based media organizations.
Other Organizations Supporting Media-Making
Act One, Inc. is "a nonprofit organization that trains people of faith for careers in mainstream film and television...[and seeks to provide] special tools for Christians concerned with creating entertainment that will foster in viewers an encounter with God, a sense of connection with others, and deeper knowledge of self."
Women Make Movies is a "multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. The organization provides services to both users and makers of film and video programs, with a special emphasis on supporting work by women of color."
|
