Posted by nappy on 08/30/07 15:08

Just get into it with them. Enough to learn what to buy. They'll need a
decent DV or HDV camera and appropriate editing software. They can edit DV
on just about any current computer with a firewire drive and a larger enough
hard disk.

There is absolutely no good reason to send them through any school .. just
get them some tape and let them google. There are shooting, lighting,
editing tutorials online en masse. If they are really into this they will
pick it all up.

Don't be too critical of their work until they;ve had some time in it. But
it does help if you are there to buy the next step or the extra tape or
drive or light or wide angle adapter or whatever..

That simple.


<shoemakerted@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> My kids (ages 12-17) are interested in making movies and videos.
> Where should they start? (They already know they need to go to
> college. Other than that.)
>
> All serious suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> Ted Shoemaker
>

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