Below are links to essential CU websites that contain information on your course, University support services and a collection of course specific resources compiled by your course tutors.
Coventry University Portal is your one stop hub for useful web-links to your most used online resources: Moodle (course information), student e-mail, online library portal, Solar (grades) & more.
Moodle will be the site you visit the most in relation to your studies and module content. Moodle is the place to go for all of your module assessment information, links to module resources, production documentation and information on your coursework submissions.
University Coursework Submission Portal – information on coversheet’s and submitting your coursework can be found here.
Media Loan Shop online booking system enables you to book out media production equipment (cameras, tripods, lights etc) once you have undertaken your media loan shop induction and relevant skills instruction.
CUSU is the place to go for all things Student Union. Information on societies, events, and sporting contests can be found here.
CU Student Support portal offers a range of academic and personal support services that are available to all students studying at Coventry University.
FURTHER MEDIA PRODUCTION RESOURCES
A selection of links & resources your course tutors have compiled as useful reading/viewing for the course.
@CU_MediaPro The Media Production twitter feed #cumediapro
Professional Experience Opportunities Facebook page. A regularly updated page of paid work, placements & opportunities, also to enable MP students & graduates to list opportunities on their own production work. Plenty of reasons to join.
Creative Cow a peer-to-peer support community for media production professionals
Mandy.com Film and TV production resources – a good source of professional experience opportunities
BFI online The British Film Institute archive, cinemas, festivals, films, publications and learning resources
Rhizome.org the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends
British Films British Council Film’s British Films Directory is an extensive searchable database of new British films.
FilmSound.org the most important forum on the planet for practitioners of sound design
ScriptORama Over 10000 free movie scripts, transcripts, screenplays, teleplays and more
Guerilla Filmmaker.com a website full of stuff you should know about being an independent, low budget filmmaker in the world today
IMPA AWARDS Movie Poster Design Awards and all the latest movie poster campaigns
Itunes U – Art and design The Media dept. iTunes U channel features podcasts from key lectures, seminars, coventry conversations and other sources
Online tools:
- Pixir.com – a free online image editor
- Prezi.com – online presentation creator
- Soundcloud – audio sharing site
- Audioboo – audio sharing site
- Flickr.com – online photo-sharing network
- Camtasia – screen capture software (free 30 day trial)
- Camstudio – screen capture software (freeware)
- TinyUrl – online utility for shortening long web links
- Uploading videos to Youtube
- Vimeo Help Centre (for uploading/encoding etc)
Data Visualisation – links and tools/apps:
- Wordle – a site that generates “word clouds” from text that you provide.
- IBM’s Visualisation tools – experimental data visualisations
- Google’s Visualisation Tools – galleries and tools for creating data visualisations
- Best Visualisation Projects – great examples of creative data visualisation
- Information is Beautiful – graphic data visualisations from a wide variety of sources
- Chris Jordan’s images – incredible artworks incorporating data visualisation
Surveys online:
- Survey Monkey – create and publish online surveys
- Kwik Survey – online survey tool
- Zoomerang – online survey too
Namaste Media Minions! 