As an attempt to support our student’s Book Trailer projects, I put together these basic movie making tips on the district Tech Integration website.
I tried to keep the steps very general- so they hopefully apply to most tools kids may use. In a world with a plethora of tools, it is the product that we will need to assess. Not the tool that is used to create it.
I would appreciate any suggestions of steps I missed when putting together this outline.
Movie Making Process!
-These steps should apply for virtually any presentation making program you use!
Plan:
1. Create a storyboard of your ideas. Brainstorm what images and text you plan to use in your Book Trailer.
Organize:
2. Create a folder for all of your video project files.
3. You will save all of your images, sound files, and other elements into the SAME folder.
4. When finding images, be sure to record the website or location you found the picture.
(Copy/paste the long URL into a Word document at the very least.)
Create:
5. Create a new project. Save-as the project into the SAME folder!
6. Import your images.
7. Add your text.
Embellish:
8. After the images and the text are in, then think about making the movie fancy. It is the content that is graded. Read your rubric!
Export/Share:
9. Save or export the project as a video file.
.wmv files play best on school computers!
If using a web 2.0 tool, have your parent email the web address to your teacher.
Movie Maker
Getting started with Windows Movie Maker
Atomic Learning: Windows Movie Maker 2 Training
Tech-Ease: Movie Maker Video Tutorials
Windows Live Movie Maker: Get Started
iMovie
Atomic Learning: iMovie 2 Training
Atomic Learning: iMovie 3 and 4 Training
Photo Story
Digital Storytelling: Photo Story Tutorial
Atomic Learning: Photo Story 3 Tutorials
PowerPoint
Microsoft: Set Timings on a PowerPoint Presentation
ppt-to-dvd.com: How to set timings for an automatic PowerPoint
Record a Narration in PowerPoint
Microsoft: Inserting a Sound into PowerPoint
Animoto