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Did you know that the English Wikipedia has over 7 million articles, but only 0.2% of them have videos?

Have you ever wanted to see a video demonstration of baseball or line dancing along with the text and photos?

Help contribute to the Wiki Makes Video project to further enrich Wikipedia for all types of learners:


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Learn how to shoot original video with your cell phone or camera, for beginners and experts alike.

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Discover how to find existing video from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, Library of Congress or other free sources and embed them into Wikipedia articles.

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Click here to suggest videos you'd like to see in articles and topics.

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Overview

: See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Makes Video/About

Visual literacy training

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One of the more successful way of training new folks in visual literacy is through patterns. One such pattern that is used in journalism circles is the "BBC 5 shot" pattern, pioneered by Michael Rosenblum. See the Venice Beach sandbag operation example below for an example of this. It states that good stories need shots of individuals, and might consist of this sequence as a start:

  1. Closeup on the hands
  2. Closeup on the face
  3. Wide shot
  4. Over the shoulder shot
  5. Unusual shot

See the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Makes Video/Video training for more information.

All these should follow the basic visual literacy rules:

  1. Frame the subject using the rule of thirds
  2. Don't move the camera, treat each shot like a still shot
  3. Don't cross the line of action. Stay on one side of the subject so that there is visual continuity

Topics ripe for video

: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Makes Video/Suggest

Sample Videos

: See Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Makes Video/Examples

: See Articles containing video clips

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