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Download & Streaming Media for University, Secondary Classroom and Students in Media. You can now license programming giving everyone in your institution access to classroom ready content.

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First Light Video Publishing boasts the nation’s largest selection of high-quality instructional content in the media arts. We provide students with the unique concept of media training and career skills, teaching usable job skills to students and professionals. That’s why, whether it’s for an introductory media class or a graduate level film course, there’s a First Light series that can elevate your curriculum to the next level.

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The positioning of a camera "puts frame around the world " and divides it into ..

This program defines the basic shot types of the film and video vocabulary from wide shot ..

Our eyes and brains use a variety of visual cues to construct three dimensional space. ..

In a series of convincing demonstrations, Thompson shows that the position of the viewer ..

Thompson examines the way the human eye moves as it interacts with a visual scene and ..

Thompson shows how we orient ourselves in space by a combination of what we see and other ..

Discover the sensory qualities of the filmed image, including luminosity, definition and ..

This program explores the ways in which editing can be used to reconstruct, rearrange or ..

This program begins by exploring the wealth of natural and mechanical rhythms in the world..

This program explores the wide-ranging forms and functions of music for the screen. A ..

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Valuable for students aspiring to enter the world of Filmmaking. Young people everywhere ..

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10-Point lighting, the jargon and motive behind each light source, as well as balancing ..

Screenwriting, Directing, Acting. Add foreground detail and make a dolly move really count,..

10 complete sections devoted to Pro lighting. Matching your lighting to fire-light, Christmas..

This module teaches how to use all the Camera and Lighting gear to make movies successfully..

Focuses on Tungsten and H.M.I Fresnels, with John Gresch from Arri Lighting. Learn how to..

Focuses on Diopters, and Filters with Bill Turner from Schneider Optics. Learn how to modify..

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Focuses on Heavy Dollies with 35-year Veteran Hollywood Key Grip Chet Spinney. Sometimes ..

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This is movie making in action, teaching set etiquette, communication, decision-making, and..

The Intermediate Audio Guide is a special focus on Microphones, Mixers, Recorders, Cables,..

This 23 part Digital Keying Guide teaches how to create believable Compositing images. It ..

Explores the process of discovering and preparing a character for film with acting instructor..

The Command Basic & Command Plus courses include these additional student resource ..

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