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Video Creation Tools for Showcasing Your Contest Entry

Are you a British Columbia school student in Grades 3-12? Take a Stand: Youth for Conservation and the Rainforest Conservation Foundation want to showcase some of the amazing things young people are leading in their local communities to shift social thinking or voice the urgent need to protect and conserve nature. To get your idea and action project across you can use three forms of media as outlined in the Contest details. For example, an original 60-120 second video is a very good way to showcase an important environmental issue or to create a voice within our 4 themes of Local wildlife and habitats of coastal BC; Indigenous Cultures and History; Climate Change; and Human connections and Impacts. So get creative, grab the nearest camera, and start shooting! Scroll down for important resources surrounding the creation of your video.

Filmmaking Resources

We want as many students as possible to Take a Stand for conservation by entering our Student Innovation Challenge Contest. Your action project needs to be showcased using an art medium. Some of you may select to submit a video for this, but not everybody has filmmaking experience! To help you get started we’ve put together a list of helpful resources showing you how to shoot and edit your own videos using free software!

Video Editing Software

There are lots of options for software platforms to use in editing your video. Most computers will come with some basic video editing software like iMovie on Macs or Windows Movie Maker on PCs. Some alternative free video editing programs include:

Tutorials on Filmmaking and Film Editing

These tutorials will get you started with instructions on how to shoot and edit your films!

Videomaker.com Filmmaking Video Tutorials

Free Music Resources for Filmmakers:

To avoid copyright infringement issues, you won’t be able to use music from most popular artists in your films – this means pretty much everything you might hear on the radio! Instead, you can use your own original music or look for copyright-free music online. The following resources offer free music for use in film projects, but the conditions for using this music generally require that you recognize the artist and the website by listing them in your film credits. Remember to check the terms of music use on each site, and don’t forget to give credit where credit is due!

  • MusOpen: A site offering public-domain classical music tracks.
  • Public Domain 4U: A site offering public-domain music tracks spanning several genres.
  • Incompetech Royalty-Free Music: A database of royalty-free music spanning several genres which is searchable by genre and also by the feel of the music.
  • MobyGratis: A site offering free ambient and instrumental tracks for film students and independent filmmakers.
  • Free SoundTrack Music: A site offering both free and paid music tracks.

How to Upload your Videos to Vimeo:

For help with uploading your video, and instructions on compressing and exporting videos for upload to Vimeo using all sorts of different filmmaking software, check out the instructions on the Vimeo Help page.

Example Videos

Example of a Wildlife Video

Example of a Nature Video Done with Time-lapse Photography

Example of an Action Sports Video by a Grade 9 Student