http://www.alasmedia.net/
http://alasmedia.wikispaces.com/AM_home
The following sites offer royalty-free images and music for presentations ...
- Compfight - Creative Commons licenced images [look for images that are no less than 700 pix in dimension!]
- Incompetech - copyright-free music
Applications for making slideshows and presentations ...
Free music editing applications on the web ...
- Apple Garageband for Mac - drag your video over Garageband to turn this into a whole scoring schedule
- Mantis by Indabamusic
- Aviary Suite
Mindmaps are brilliant for story boarding videos before you begin filming ...
- My WebSpiration - an Alas Media fave!
- Mindomo - free basic version
- Bubbl.us
- Text2Mindmap
Online image editors ...
Finally, some tips ... iMovie - choose a royalty-free or self-created piece of music and drag ito the main window. Use the clip trimmer tool by right-clicking on the icon. You can place markers at certain time intervals [use the m key to invoke the marker]. If you drag images or video footage over the icon you get a montage of images and videos to the music.
When you are taking photos, take wide shots, medium and close ups; each picture will help tell a story from different angles. And the same is true for videos - shoot the same scene from different angles and use 'precision' editing to switch between them for the final result.
When you're buying a camera, make sure you get one with video/audio capability. Sometimes, putting a cover over the microphone improves the sound by cutting out the background noise!