Camera! Action! Libraries!

Do you know that you don’t have to own a videocam to be able to submit a Short Film entry?

Visit the Video Toolbox on YouTube for some helpful tips on creating your masterpiece.  Tips include:

• Shooting and camera work
• Lighting
• Sound
• Post-production

Also check out the VideoMaker’s Channel especially his video on the Five Deadly Sins of Amateur Video.

If you want to use the music at Royalty Free Music for your video just send an email to yp@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au and we’ll send you the username and password.

Here’s a sample.

Looking for inspiration?  Here’s a video created by teens at the Christchurch Library in New Zealand.

Have you always dreamed of walking the red carpet? See yourself as the next Quentin Tarantino or Megan Fox? All you need is a mobile phone and some friends to shoot and star in your own photo or film.

There is a catch. Your wonderful library has to feature in your entry.

To find out more about the competition and the great prizes that can be won hit the About tab at the top of the screen.

Entertain us!

From your library staff.

PS.  Don’t forget to cast your vote for the “People’s Choice Award”.