BEFORE YOU FILM
Before you start filming, please review the pre-filming checklist provided by Mrs. Herrmann. You should have already written and rehearsed your scenes and created your credits slide or page for your background image(s) and music or sound effects BEFORE you start to film.
Before you start filming, please review the pre-filming checklist provided by Mrs. Herrmann. You should have already written and rehearsed your scenes and created your credits slide or page for your background image(s) and music or sound effects BEFORE you start to film.
Copyright-Friendly Photo Collections
Pexels - A large collection of beautiful photos that have all been released into the public domain so that they can be freely used for any purpose.
Sample Credit - City streets photo: pexels.com
Pixnio - This site includes over 3,000 photos sorted by category (e.g., animals, landscapes, vehicles) for easy browsing. Sample Credit - Money photo: pixnio.com
Unsplash - Over a million, beautiful, high-resolution and copyright-friendly images to choose and reuse.
Sample Credit - House photo by Photographer's Name on Unsplash (Each photo has the photographer's name listed for you to copy.)
Sample Credit - City streets photo: pexels.com
Pixnio - This site includes over 3,000 photos sorted by category (e.g., animals, landscapes, vehicles) for easy browsing. Sample Credit - Money photo: pixnio.com
Unsplash - Over a million, beautiful, high-resolution and copyright-friendly images to choose and reuse.
Sample Credit - House photo by Photographer's Name on Unsplash (Each photo has the photographer's name listed for you to copy.)
Copyright-Friendly Videos
Pexels Videos - Videos that may be freely used for any purpose.
Sample Credit - Traffic video: videos.pexels.com
Sample Credit - Traffic video: videos.pexels.com
Copyright-Friendly Music
Incompetech - Search here for a wide variety of Creative Commons-licensed music that you are free to use as long as you credit the artist. This is easy to do because the proper citation is provided for you to copy and paste into your credits section.
Bensound - Another great collection of Creative Commons-licensed music. You should credit Bensound and provide a link, for example,
"Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music or "Music: Song title - Bensound.com".
Purple Planet - The free collection of music is organized into 20 different mood categories at the top of the homepage. (The collection lower on the page is not free to use but requires the payment of licensing fees.) Your credit should read "Music: http://www.purple -planet.com".
Bensound - Another great collection of Creative Commons-licensed music. You should credit Bensound and provide a link, for example,
"Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music or "Music: Song title - Bensound.com".
Purple Planet - The free collection of music is organized into 20 different mood categories at the top of the homepage. (The collection lower on the page is not free to use but requires the payment of licensing fees.) Your credit should read "Music: http://www.purple -planet.com".
Copyright-Friendly Sound Effects
Freesound - A large collection of sounds that is easy to search. Once you have a results page, you can limit the results to different license types. If you choose Creative Commons 0, then your credit can simply be Sound effects: freesound.org. Any other license type will require you to provide attribution. Find more details here.
How to Film and Assemble Your Green Screen Video
You will film in front of a green screen using an iPad.
1. Have any background music and sound effects chosen and ready to play so that they can be recorded along with the narration when you film.
2. Be sure you either videotape or take one or more photos of your credits (created in Google slides) so they can appear at the end of the green screen video.
3. Download your background images and photos onto the iPad. They will be saved in the camera roll. (Directions for doing this are in the pre-filming checklist.)
4. Record your video using the iPad camera app. If you need to trim or edit your video, watch the video on the library website that shows how to do this.
5. Open the Do Ink green screen app and create a new project. Your background images/videos will become the bottom layer and your iPad video will be the middle layer. (Top layer will remain empty.)
More detailed instructions on using the Do Ink app can be found by watching the Do Ink video tutorials below.
6. Your completed green screen video can be saved in the iPad camera roll.
7. Share your completed video by airdropping it to your teacher or to Ms. Herrmann.
If you want, you can import your video into iMovie to assemble the parts (see tutorial below) or simply to do additional editing before you share it.
1. Have any background music and sound effects chosen and ready to play so that they can be recorded along with the narration when you film.
2. Be sure you either videotape or take one or more photos of your credits (created in Google slides) so they can appear at the end of the green screen video.
3. Download your background images and photos onto the iPad. They will be saved in the camera roll. (Directions for doing this are in the pre-filming checklist.)
4. Record your video using the iPad camera app. If you need to trim or edit your video, watch the video on the library website that shows how to do this.
5. Open the Do Ink green screen app and create a new project. Your background images/videos will become the bottom layer and your iPad video will be the middle layer. (Top layer will remain empty.)
More detailed instructions on using the Do Ink app can be found by watching the Do Ink video tutorials below.
6. Your completed green screen video can be saved in the iPad camera roll.
7. Share your completed video by airdropping it to your teacher or to Ms. Herrmann.
If you want, you can import your video into iMovie to assemble the parts (see tutorial below) or simply to do additional editing before you share it.
Green Screen Videos Using the Do Ink App
Short video tutorials provided by Do Ink are available HERE.
Written directions provided by Do Ink are available HERE.
Watch the videos below to learn how to create a green screen video that includes all three layers.
Trim Videos in the Photos App on the iPad
Green Screen in iMovie Tutorial