5 Apps for Making Movies on Mobile Devices. Every year at Hollywood award shows, we see fantastic movies celebrated for their rich storytelling and dynamic performances.
Your students can become moviemakers, too, thanks to some powerful apps for mobile devices. With these tools, your children can take videos and edit their work to make professional quality movies using iOS devices (iPads and iPhones) and Android tablets. One good thing about this easy-to-use technology is that students can still use important English language arts skills like writing a narrative, planning a sequential story, and including key details when getting ready to make a movie. These apps can enhance the work that you are doing with children in the classroom and give them room to be creative storytellers. iMotion HD (iOS: Free, Upgrade Available) Your students can create a time-lapse or stop-motion film using this video app. iMotion HD lets kids make a movie by combining still photos.
PicPlayPost (iOS: $1.99) Magisto Video Editor & Maker (Android: Free) Screen Recording Apps. 22 tools and apps every journalism student should know about. Ten fantastic apps, tips and tools for recording audio. If you want to make your blog more multimedia, work as a broadcast journalist, or are a sports reporter covering a team whose fans have an appetite for post-match team talk, here are 10 ideas and apps to make recording audio so much easier. 1.
The VC Audio Pro, iPhone and iPod Touch app, £3.49 There are two fantastic apps, both from developer VeriCorder, that allow you to record, edit audio on the fly and send it to the newsroom. VC Audio Pro has a free version, VC Audio – Networks Edition, but requires a subscription. The 1stVideo – Consumer Edition app from the same developer performs the same task but is even more powerful in that you can film, edit and upload video. 1stVideo costs £5.99 and you will need 3GS or iPhone 4. With VC Audio Pro you can: Set your iPhone to airplane mode for the best quality audio recording;Add markers while recording;Monitor the recording on headphones;Edit in multitrack; 2. The quality isn’t perfect as but pretty good. 3. With ipadio you can: Hat tip: The Plan. How to: shoot and edit video on an iPhone. Video clip blocks in 1stVideo by VeriCorder on an iPhone The most useful tool for you as a journalist is often the smartphone in your handbag or pocket.
Your phone (or iPod or iPad) may come in handy when you unexpectedly find yourself at the scene of a breaking new story. You may even decide that your phone is up to a particular job and saves you buying and carrying extra kit. Journalism.co.uk now records podcasts on an iPhone 4, for example, as it provides better quality than some other audio recorders. Inspired by the team of journalists from the Guardian who, when reporting from the field during Glastonbury, shot video on iPods despite many of them having little or no video training, here is a guide to shooting video on an iPhone. After shooting video you can then edit footage using a programme such as Final Cut Express, iMovie or Windows Movie Maker – or you can edit on your iPhone. Recording video on an iPhone, iPod or iPad This very powerful little app is 1stVideo by VeriCorder.