Creating the Narrative

I'm looking for online resources to help my students produce their final assignment, a 30 minute TV pilot of their choice. One of the questions students have is how to construct the story, the building blocks of storytelling.

One source is:

Screenwriting from About.com

Corporate Video Examples

• Alberta Learning Information Service video archive carries multiple examples of both instructional and corporate videos
  
• Bed and Breakfast a must see!
  
• Creating Video Games: Corporate Recruitment Video for Women excellent
  
• E-commerce
  
• Impressive Demos from Rossiter
  

Instructional Videos

How do you script an instructional video? How do you make it interesting to students? Perhaps the subject matter might help:

• CDC Emergency Preparedness Videos
  
• History of Bioterrorism
  
• Just What the Doctor Ordered economical short video on "Communication Skills in Cancer Care" includes wrap of how the production was done in 2001
  
• Learn to Play Golf
  
• how to be: emo
  
• 1927 Instructional Film on How to Use the Telephone
  
• 1950s Instructional Fims on Sex
  

Production House Examples

• Opne Directory Project Corporate Film Production Houses
  
• Rossiter & Co Very impressive
  

Training Videos

• Reelized Productions - Full-service video production company. Instructional training, safety videos, web video, CD-ROM.
  -- http://www.reelized.com/   Business: Business Services: AudioVisual: Production: Video and Film
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• Coastline Productions - Complete, turn-key video production services for business. Services include corporate communications, marketing, employee training and instructional videos. Located in Southern California.
  -- http://www.coastlinevideo.com   Business: Business Services: AudioVisual: Production: Video and Film
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• Focus Productions - Focus Productions of Toronto, Canada produces short, promotional and instructional videos on health, education and workplace issues, for charitable organizations and labour unions.
  -- http://www.focusproductions.net   Business: Business Services: AudioVisual: Production: Video and Film
  
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• Mehaffey Multimedia Productions - Full-service video production firm specializing in videotaping and production of site safety and workplace instructional videos. Based in Mandeville, Louisiana.
  -- http://www.mmpvideo.com/   Business: Business Services: AudioVisual: Production: Video and Film
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Instructional Videos

• Objects of Desires
  
• Examples of Instructional Video Clips from Indiana University
  

Online Film Resources

It's great to live in the age of increasing bandwidth. There are many online resources for actual films and clips for academic use. CPB has one great example.