UNIT 7.1 | LET’S MAKE A FILM!

Windows Movie Maker

WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

In this session you will be focusing on Windows Movie Maker:

1. How to assess Movie Maker

2. How to use it

3. The skills of the software

4. Features the software has

This PowerPoint will show you a step-by-step guide/tutorial on using Movie Maker, it will show all the important key features, skills and everything you need to know about the software.

By the end of the session you will all be experts at using Windows Movie Maker!

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE/TUTORIALS

Follow the PowerPoint instructions which will tell

you what to do step-by-step and how to use the

software.

Movie Maker is very fun and enjoyable, you can

create amazing movies from this software. Let’s

have a go!

1. Select the start button.

2. Enter into the search box

movie maker.

3. Select the program

‘Windows Live Movie

Maker’

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The print screen above shows you what will then appear onto

your screen. This is windows movie maker. This is the

software you will all complete your film project. You should

work through the PowerPoint so you know how to use it very

well.

At the top the menu displayed has a home which is what you should all be on

now.

Animations which is what you are able to include into your movie. This can be

the transition of images/videos, the way they may appear onto the screen.

Visual effects is the type of effect you can add onto images/videos for

example, black and white effect.

View menu is for zooming in and out of images/videos.

Menu

When you upload an image/video onto movie maker, another

menu tab will display which is called edit. When you add an

animation to your video or image you can the edit its

duration, the way the images enters the screen. Also, where

you may want your image to start and end.

Adding images/videos.

On the home menu, where it says add videos and

photos (like it is shown below), you click onto it.

Once you’ve selected add videos/images, your

documents folder will pop up just like below. On the

side on the folder a bar tab will appear, you can select

pictures or videos, which ever you are uploading onto

movie maker. We will be uploading pictures, so you

select sample pictures.

Your image will then show up onto the screen like this. It

shows you all the various things you can do, for

example, add music, add text/caption/titles, rotate your

image which ever way you want it.

Select the other menu tabs to see what they have to

offer. Have a look at what else you can do on movie

maker.

You can select and have more images just by adding pictures

like we did previously. You are able to change around the

order of your images/videos, they can be in any order you

want and like. You are able to do the same with videos. You

can see below I have added more images, I am now going to

add text, music and animation to complete my little movie.

At the bottom here is where you can play the video, rewind it and

also forward it to where you want it to go.

Adding Music

You add music the same way you add pictures/videos,

select the music you want onto your movie.

Once you’ve added music it will display and appear like it

does below, you can move around where you want the

song to come in and finish. You can do this by just moving

around the music in the green box to where you want it.

When you want to listen to the music

and play the video just select the play

button here.

We are now going to create some text, adding text

onto the image for our movie. You do this my

selecting the little icon which says ‘Caption’. (like

shown below)

Once you have selected ‘Caption’, you can then enter any

text which you like, you are able to change the font, size,

colour and also place the text where ever you want to.

(like shown below)

Move around text to where you want

to place it.

Change font,

size, colour

here.

Adding animation

You can add animation just by selected the animation

menu and selecting any transitions you like the best. This

means when the image enters the screen how would you

like the it to appear, there are many effects you can use.

Once you have selected the transition you want, you can

then select the duration of the transition you want the

images to have.

You can also select pan and zoom, which is if you want

the images to zoom in as they come appearing onto the

screen.

Effects

You can also change the effect of the image, as you can see below I have now added an black and white effect onto my image. There are a variety of effects you can use which are very useful. You can change and have different effects for your images, they don’t all have to be the same effect on every image. You don’t have to have an effect if you like the image/video the way it is already.

Saving work

Once you have finished your video it is very important to

save it.

Firstly, select

the top drop

down menu

button.

Secondly, select

save project as.

Once you have select ‘save project as’, below the

print screen shows you what will appear

Make sure your

video is saved in

‘Videos’. This way

you will know

where your video is

when you need to

assess it.

Give your movie a name

Then make sure you

select save, by selecting

save your entire movie is

saved.

If you would like to add any other features onto your

movie then do so. Make your film interesting and

attractive. Use all the features and be creative!

This is your film, you are in charge, you can use

what ever you like. Be imaginative movie stars.

You can continue exploring Movie Maker, use

different features. Its now your turn!!