Working with Movie Maker

LET’S MAKE A MOVIE!

Why Use Movies?

Video has a special power for kids Video is COOL! Another way to show learning Good for ELL, LD kids Impact (favorite thing I did) Audience (creates an atmosphere

of “what am I cable of” global audience)

Video Projects

Assign time limits ( A must!) 30 seconds – this makes them careful about

what is included No Violence and martial arts Start with podcasts and slideshows Encourage Quality Students may work alone in a group with

no more than 3. Provide alternatives ( poster, etc) not

everyone can produce video because of lack of equipment.

What is involved with a movie project?

Gathering research needed for the project Planning – creating a storyboard

Locate pictures, sound effects, music, and narrative (be careful to maintain of list of sources for the credits)

Producing Creation of video Editing of video Testing to make sure it work on another

computer Finishing

Saving the project as well as finished product and delivering product to recipient.

Storyboard

Contains a rough sketch or outline of the project.

Timeline of the project. Helps to keep the developer on track. Should be complete and approved begin

production begins. May look like this:

Space Requirement on Computer

For every hour of captured 12-13 Gigabytes of disk space is needed.

For every minute captured .2 gigabytes of disk space is needed. (12/60 minutes)

After project has been rendered into a Movie. It will be compressed. When downloading a compressed movie the rule of thumb is:1 Minute of Video = 2 MB (Another reason for keeping project to a minimal time constraint)

Audacity

Free, sound editing and recording program Multi-tracked and will allow music and

narration May be imported into Movie Maker, Photo

Story 3, and other video editing programs Very User friendly Versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux Download the program from

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Movie Maker

Movie Maker organizes your video, music, and pictures into collections.

Drag items in your collections to your storyboard to make a movie.

Allows more versatility with titles and credits.

Allows title overlays.

How Movie Maker Looks

Video and photos

Audio/music

Title overlay

Tracks

Collecti

on

Import mediaImport media

Imported media appear here

TimelineThere are 2 views: timeline

and storyboard Duration of time for each element

Storyboard

Shows images and the transition applied between each.

Also shows the video effects that have been added to the image/video.

Titles and Screen shots

Both Movie Maker and Photo Story 3 create titles with limitations.

Cool title may be brought in from PowerPoint by saving as a .jpg

Screen shots Earth Earth ( screen shot or as save) or Sketch up

Title Slides

Select the entry on the movie tasks pane:

Make Title or Credits Next select the

location for the tile Create the title Select done and add

title to movie Preview

Splitting and Deleting Clips

To delete certain sections of the movie, move the blue “scrubber” line to the desired location. Hit “Ctrl L” or from the menu choose “Clip” then “Split”

Your movie has now been segmented into different parts. Split the clip again at the desired location to give you multiple segments, then click on the segment you wish to take out and hit delete.

Muting Narration

If you are using a clip from Discovery Education and you want to have your own narration you need to mute the audio. To do this, highlight the clip. Click “Clip” “Audio” and then “Mute”. Repeat for each segment you want muted

The is also useful if there is sound on the recording produced using a video camera.

Adding Custom Narration

To narrate your timeline, click “Tools” then “Narrate Timeline”. When you are ready to begin click “Start Narration”. After you are finished save the narration

Using Motion

Motion should have a purpose Pans, faces, eyes

PCs Movie Maker options are limited

Demo Photo Story 3 (GREAT PROGRAM) Motion should be different each time

Video Effects

Select View Video Effects

To the right, the various effect options can be viewed and previewed.

Make a selection.

Adding Credits From the Titles and

Credits selection Give credit for all

aspects of movie Select the option

to change color and font if desired

Select change title animation and select the animation style for credits.

Saving the Movie

You can play your movie back while editing pictures or video. View it in the window to the right. When you are finished click “Save to my computer”. Also, save your movie often!

Save Project as well as movie!

Resources

www.partnersinrhyme.com ( sound affects for free)

www.podsafeaudio.com www.jamendo.com Free play music can not be put on the web Search.creativecommons.org Flicker.com (not for students) Better way to follow the law - Create the

picture yourself