Television & Filmmaking Educational Videos

Shaun Mclaughlin, director of over 200 BBC radio plays, leads a master class at the Australian Radio, Film and Television School in the rehearsal and production of a short radio drama.

A lively montage takes us through a typical radio day as six announcers on talk, news and music shows provide insights into the specific requirements of their formats and into their personal approaches to gathering, organizing and presenting material.

A straightforward presentation of the two basic audiotape editing techniques: splice editing and dub editing. Graphics and overlays make the procedures clear and examples of music and voice edits are performed.

This program explores a wide range of styles and approaches for the live call-in show. A special instructional segment examines phone operation, delay systems and call dumping.

Five seasoned journalists present an in-depth view of radio news at work. Topics include news sources, item selection and scripting, preparation for broadcast, presentation skills, telephone interviews, field reports and more.

The specifics of writing for new and current affairs, commercial copyrighting and radio comedy writing are covered in detail. Specialists in each area lay out the basic requirements and share tricks of the trade.

This program introduces the radio novice to the operation of the hardware of a radio studio: console, microphones, telephone talkback, turntables, CD players, cart players, tape recorders, cassette decks, DAT recorders and more.

Hosted by Michael Berryman. This program breaks down serveral techniques that can be used to create a multitude of monsters and FX characters.

How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. This program looks at the very birth of cinema in the late 1800s through the talkies in 1928.

How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. The Golden Age of Hollywood motion picture making was a period of almost 30 years, beginning in 1928 and ending in the mid-1950s.

How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. This program discuss three big jobs in motion picture making; screenwriting, producing and directing.

How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. This program focus is on editing and how this process helps tell the story in a motion picture. The editing process follows some simple steps

Respected television journalist Mike Minehan highlights the ingredients of a dynamic and successful television interview, using well chosen excerpts that include examples of great technique, as well as, of the pitfalls that await the unwary interviewer. This program is full of role models and cautionary tales. One classic excerpt, in which Margaret Thatcher turns the tables on an ill-prepared journalist, is worth the price of admission all by itself!

Great for beginners, drama teachers, play directors and drama camps. This DVD includes instruction in pushes, pulls, knaps, slaps, punches and falls, plus fighting distance, eye contact tips, stance and balance. Tips are also included for teachers plus sections on staging and rehearsing fights.

A must for performers and teachers! This DVD builds on the training taught in the first program including wrist grab with break, duck, non-contact stomach punch, strangle hold, upper cut, cresent kick and much more. It spotlights valuable lessons on acting and performing fights, combat safety, stage fright and adds several new techniques.

Learn the secrets of how the award-winning Hollywood special effects artists make great looking latex masks & special effect props.

Planet of the Apes, The Munsters. With very few and special exceptions, there is no more influential an individual in the modern world of special makeup effects than John Chambers.

Ideal for Special Effects Artists & Makeup Enthusiasts. From the original Jack Pierce Tribute, this short production features a step-by-step demonstration featuring the makeup and application in creating the Frankenstein Monster.

This program re-creates 15 of Pierces characters with makeup wizard Robert Burman. Watch as costumes were created, sets constructed and the many hours of makeup preparation.

British composer Ron Goodwin demonstrates film music production procedures with an emphasis on timing and synchronization. He shows how timings for a scene are taken by a music editor and the transformed onto a score

With an emphasis on Airbrush Techniques for Higher Definition. Emmy-winning makeup artist (for Star Trek: Voyagers Threshold), Bradley Look, takes you behind the scenes of the Hollywood makeup artistry to show how to airbrush more effectively, in the growing age of High Definition format

This program is a valuable instructional aide for mass communications and media instructors.

The production processes of a humorous insurance commercial is amusingly narrated by producers Street Remley and Bob Dennis. We see them at work with the client and with the actors as the recording session proceeds.

Academy Award winning actor Michael Caine, internationally acclaimed for his talented performances in movies for over twenty-five years, shares his personal insights into the art and science of film acting.