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This is a presentation to accompany a 3-hour hands-on training session for digital storytelling with Photo Story and Movie Maker.

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Director’s CutPhoto Story & Movie Maker

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Brennan, Joe. “Digital Storytelling vs. Making Movies.” [weblog entry] Digital Storytelling. Discovery Educator Network. December 19, 2006 (http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_storytelling/category/the-center-for-digital-storytelling/). April 22, 2009.

Digital Storytelling vs. Making Movies

1. Point of View2. Dramatic Question 3. Emotional Content4. Gift of Your Voice5. Power of the Soundtrack6. Economy7. Pacing

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Point of View

Mr W

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The Rule of Thirds

It’s nottic-tac-toe

Avoidthe middle

Use the intersections

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The Rule of Thirds in Action

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Creating Movies with Photo Story

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Stick Figure Thinking. . 2009.Discovery Education. 7 July 2009<http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>

Tip:

Before you begin downloading media, create a folder on your computer to store all media and your Photo Story / Movie Maker file.

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Find Images

1. Log into Discovery Education streaming and find the images that you want to use

2. Download the images into a folder on your computer

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Click or right-click on the download size for your video (Medium for typical videos and Large for higher-quality videos)

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Be sure to copy the citation information for each image.

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Stick Figure Thinking. . 2009.Discovery Education. 7 July 2009<http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>

Tip:

It’s a good idea to maintain a working bibliography for media resources during the collating process. It will save time when creating the project’s bibliography and credits.

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Let’s Make Some Magic

1. Open Photo Story and click “Begin a new story”

2. Click “Next”

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Importing Images

3. Click on the “Import Pictures” button

4. Navigate to the images that you want to import

5. Click on the “next” button

*Tip: Use your shift key to select multiple images.

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Adding Your Own Narration

7. Click on the Red Button to begin narration

*TIP: Use the text area to type in a script of your narration first – this will help

eliminate the um-s and ah-s.

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Add Titles

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Add Music or Sound Effects

9. Either from your computer…

10.Or create your own music in Photo Story!!

* Tip: Adjust the volume level of your audio so that it doesn’t overwhelm your narrations.

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Finish Your Story

11.Save your story to your computer.

12.Save project for future editing.

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Creating Movies with Movie Maker

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1. Log into Discovery Education streaming and find an Editable Clip

2. Download the clip and save it into a folder on your computer with the rest of your content.

Find Video

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When searching for video content, select Editable under Narrow My Results to filter your results for Editable content to use in your digital stories.

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Set your Download Type to Media Player.

Click or right-click the Download icon.

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Don’t forget to copy the citation information.

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Stick Figure Thinking. . 2009.Discovery Education. 7 July 2009<http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>

Tip:

If you right-click on the video file after you have downloaded it and select Properties, you can paste the citation information into the Description section to make creating your Bibliography and/or Credits easy!

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Basic Vocabulary

Collection

Project

Movie

Storyboard

Timeline

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Collection

A collection contains audio clips, video clips, or pictures that you have imported or captured in Windows Movie Maker.

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Project

A project contains the arrangement and timing information of audio and video clips, video transitions, video effects, and titles you have added to the storyboard/timeline.

A saved project file in Windows Movie Maker has an .mswmm file name extension.

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Movie

A movie is the final project you save by using the Save Movie Wizard.

Note: A movie will open in Media Player.

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Storyboard view is great for organizing your media assets.

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Timeline view is great for layering audio, text, transitions, and special effects.

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Let’s Make Some Magic

1. Open Windows Movie Maker

2. From the task bar on the left, choose “Import Video”

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Stick Figure Thinking. . 2009.Discovery Education. 7 July 2009<http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>

Tip:

You can also drag and drop files directly into your content “collection.”

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3. Navigate to your movie file – it must be .asf, .avi, .wmv, or mpeg file.

4. Click “Import”

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Drag and Edit

Note that the video segment is now broken into tiny pieces

5. Drag the clip that you want to edit into boxes below

6. Click on the icon that says “Show Timeline”

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Stick Figure Thinking. . 2009.Discovery Education. 7 July 2009<http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/>

Tip:

You can import video, images, and audio using the same basic process.

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Adding Your Own Narration

7. On the Audio track line, choose a section of audio that you want to mute and right-click on that section

8. Choose “Mute”

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Record Your Narration

9. Click on the microphone icon to record your narration

10. Record your narration and save the file in your content folder on your computer

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Finish your movie

11.Choose “save to my computer”

12.Save your project for future editing.

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Extra Movie “Magic”

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Screenshots

Use this tool to take a screen shot from a video file.

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Zoom to Fit Timeline

To fit the timeline on the screen:On the View menu, click Zoom to Fit.

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Splitting Video Clips

Use this tool to split the clip.

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Trimming Video Clips

Drag the sides of the video clip to trim the length.

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Trimming Video Clips

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Combining Clips

You can combine clips to make them easier to edit and organize.

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Adding Titles and Credits

1. Select where you want your title to appear in your movie.

2. Enter text for the title.

3. Select an animation style for the title.

4. Select the font and colors for your title.

5. Add the title to your movie.

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Adding Titles and Credits

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Title Before a Clip/Image

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Title Overlay

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Credits

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Enter Text

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Select Animation

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Choose Font and Color

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Video Transitions

A video transition controls how your movie plays from one video clip or picture to the next.

You can add a transition between two pictures, video clips, or titles, in any combination, on the storyboard/timeline.

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Special Effects

A video effect determines how a video clip, picture, or title displays in your project and final movie.

Video effects let you add special effects to your movie.

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Special Effects

A video effect is applied for the entire duration that the video clip, picture, or title displays in your movie.

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Transitions & Effects

Transition

Video Effect

Two Video

Effects

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Chroma Key in Movie Maker

http://www.wikihow.com/Chroma-Key-in-Windows-Movie-Maker

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Learn More

Jason Ohler’s Storytelling Resourceshttp://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/index.cfm

Bernajean Porter’s DigiTaleshttp://www.digitales.us/

Joe Brennan’s Digital Storytelling Bloghttp://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_storytelling

Hall Davidson’s Media Matters Bloghttp://blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_matters

Jen Dorman’s Digital Storytelling Page:http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling