LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION

 

The list provides links to online sites that have either video clips or full productions produced by youth for downloading and screening. Reel Action welcomes information about other sites of online examples showcasing teen produced media. Please contact Reel Action at: .

Showcasing teen produced media

Apple Student Gallery. The Student Gallery is the web’s premier collection of student-produced digital media projects. Students create and post their movies, pictures, songs, and presentations. Students can promote their own work, preview other projects, and comment on what their peers create.

Beyond Borders. As a network for young filmmakers, Listen Up! has given the "green light" to 15 youth teams worldwide to produce short documentaries about what may be the most important questions of our time. These teenagers are courageously documenting some of most difficult aspects of their lives, examining what they most fear and how they create security in their lives. (HS) Source: PBS

Community Art Centers inc. This Cambridge, Massachusetts site has a short selection of videos by youth producers.

The Gulf Islands Film and Television Schol - Film Library: The Gulf Islands Film and Television Schol - Film Library has an extensive collection of student produced videos including: drama, clamation, documentary computer/3D, digital video effects and other categories.

Great Minds Foundation. Teens are challenge to deliver important messages by creating an original, emotionally charged, groundbreaking video commercial. This site features a student showcase of wining films produced by students at Barrington and Palatine High Schools in Barrington, Illinois.

Kids With Cameras. Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. Includes photoe essays by teens. (HS) Source: Kids With Cameras.

Listen Up! A youth media network that connects young video producers to resources, support, and projects with the goal of developing the field and achieving an authentic youth voice in the mass media. (HS) Source: PBS

Movie Shorts. The BBC presents short films by teenagers that can be viewed online. See what teens are doing overseas. Source: BBC (HS)

One Minute JR. This site provides the opportunity to see films by young people from all over the world. Extensive archive along with the latest videos of the 10 semi-finalists from the global make a difference! video contest

Online 2005 EyeLens Film, Video & Animation Festival. Grab some popcorn, settle in a comfy chair and watch any of the 185 films made at GIFTS in 2004. Film produced by people of all ages with a majority by young filmmakers. Source: GIFTS (HS)

Radio Diaries: Teenagers. Give teens a tape recorder and let them document their lives and interests. Here the stories of several teens from different parts of the nation and learn what teens face today.

. This is an after school youth media organization in Seattle. Check out this organizations YouTube channel showcasing the video work by Reel Grrls participants.

Red Studio Located in The Museum of Modern Art features new look and resources of interest to young film and video producers.

Reel Vision is an out of school time hands-on, filmmaking program focused on bringing arts, media literacy, and technology to urban youth from low-income areas of Boston. It provides participants with tools to "decode" destructive messages from the media and produce their own material aimed at presenting positive images and choices to young people. Their films address community concerns such as racism, violence, smoking, drugs, gangs and privacy rights. The program also introduces students to the myriad of opportunities in the communication industry, from cinematographer, to writing, to producing, to marketing.

School of Cinema and Performing Arts. Sample teen work from SOCAPA's Summer Camps! They are also early works in terms of students' progression through the program. Most of their final films, which tend to be even more sophisticated, are too long to post online. Source: SOCAPA (HS)

Spy Hop Productions is a Salt Lake City based non-profit youth media arts and education center, dedicated to empowering youth (k-12) through multimedia. The filmmakers highlighted in this year's "Best Of" range in age from seven to nineteen, and selected films include documentary work, flash animation, fictional narratives, and claymation.

Teenage Diaries. Since 1996, the Teenage Diaries series has been giving tape recorders to young people around the country to report on their own lives. They conduct interviews, keep an audio journal and record the sounds of daily life—usually collecting more than 40 hours of raw tape over the course of a year. (HS) Source: NPR

Teen Showcase. A University of Washington web site that showcases teen media from across the Northwest. that address a wide range of issues, including thoughts on advertising, movies, TV programs, etc. View short videos produced by teen filmmakers. (HS) Source: NW Center for Excellence in Media Literacy.

Vancouver Youth Radio. VYR is part of The Hastings Media Lab Project. The Hastings Street Media Lab consists of 5 components: Vancouver Youth Radio, The Hastings Street Recording Studio, Hastings Street Graphic Arts Studio, Hastings Street Video Studio and the Hastings Street School of Rock. This project is aimed at youth who are interested in multi media and digital creativity. All of our programs are free. All of the VYR content is made by youth for youth and the VYR rotation is programmed by youth for youth.

YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary journal of youth life in the Bay Area. Featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages, YO! is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voice and visions need to be seen and heard. YO! is a bridge to the world of youth expression of young people - between the ages of 14 and 25 and offers a unique window into California's youth subcultures.. YO! stories run nationally and internationally over the Pacific News Service wire.

Young Americanos: Americanos is a project dedicated to the photography of young Hispanic and Latino youth. Photo competitions are held nation wide each year.


Code: ELEM - Elementary, MID - Middle School, HS - High School

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