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How To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Movie Production Studio In 6 Easy Steps

Global Giving

This may sound hard, but a clear, concise, key message is vital to creating a successful video. Use the first column for imagery and the second column for audio. Remember, smartphone imagery can easily be manipulated, but poor sound can seriously affect the perceived quality of your video. Start with your audience.

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How to Produce Your Own Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

Overall, the recording sounds best if the call is Skype to Skype, but it's usually OK if I call the interviewee's land line too. What does not sound good is if person is on their cell phone. They have some good posts with tips and tutorials. I try to avoid that scenario as much as possible. number of downloads).

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Raspberry Pi for Educators

Tech Soup

It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system. For educators, though, there are tutorials and projects that are a bit more practical. Creating sounds. Weather station. Digital camera.

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Tips for Shooting A Winning Video For Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DSLR Audio Isn’t Good. To capture better audio get a camera with a mic-in jack (these are a bit more expensive) or get a portable recorder. Either way you’ll need to add a microphone to the mix to get the best sound. Both have dedicated users and a huge variety of tutorials online to help you get started.

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5 DIY Video Tips

See3

We’ve found that viewers are more willing to excuse poor visuals than poor audio. Good sound makes all the difference. But for filmmakers and DIY video folks, try Lynda.com and Creative Cow for tutorials and training. Take Advantage of Online Resources. For many people, Google is their #1 online resource.

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Pick of the Week: WNYC's RadioLab

Museum 2.0

It's a worthwhile 30 minutes of discussion about the use of sound to provide an emotional context for stories--specifically, stories about science. It's This American Life meets Science Friday with a whole slew of strange audio tweaks thrown in. They have arguments about consciousness without sounding pretentious.

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July NetSquared Think Tank Round-Up: Building a Culture of Accessibility

Tech Soup

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader.