Imovie : First Timers Imovie Can Help facilitate Learning !

FunctionTraditionalConstructivist Access and analysis of information Prepackaged programming delivers information to students Students and Teachers produce their own instructional content Video is an expert a “Substitute teacher” that presents one-way knolege to students. Students learn codes and conventions of video to express themselves. Their knowledge is valued and they have outlets to express it. Title: “Video in the classroom: A tool for reform” Author: Tyner, Kathleen, Arts Education Policy Review, Sep/Oct94, Vol. 96 Issue 1, p18, 9p, 1 chart Tyner, KathleenArts Education Policy ReviewSep/Oct94, Vol. 96 Issue 1, p18, 9p, 1 chart

FunctionTraditionalConstructivist Hands-on production Video is used to document other real- time classroom or extracurricular projects Video productions derived from original concepts are encourage. Video replicates broadcast formats Students see a range of independent and experimentasl pieces from which to model and practice a variety of formats. Teachers choose the themes and concepts for students productions Students work with teachers to choose themes, content, and concepts for classroom information and hands-on production.

Imovie has 4 basic steps: Shoot, Edit, Enhance, and Share Import &Capture Transitions Edit unwanted footage Export and share

First, you have to connect your DV camera to your Mac. This is simple. Your Mac comes with the FireWire cable you need, just plug one end into your digital camcorder's FireWire output (if it's a digital camcorder, it almost undoubtedly has a FireWire output), and plug the other end into your Mac DV's FireWire input. Then turn your digital camcorder on. When you launch iMovie, it immediately detects your camera. Now it's time to pull some video out of your digital camcorder.

This is where the Fire Wire is!

Open New Project Let’s Start a new Project

Images, digital video, and sounds can be imported into iMovie by choosing "Import File..." under the File menu.

Importing clips from your digital camcorder is simple because iMovie actually operates your digital video camera for you and displays the contents of your tape in iMovie's Monitor window. See the "Play" button at the bottom center of the Monitor window? Press it, and you'll hear your digital video camcorder start up and start playing what's on your tape. When you see a clip of video you want, press the Import button. When you've finished capturing the video clip, click the Import button again to stop importing.

iMovie places captured clips on the shelf, a temporary storage place for clips, to the right of its monitor. The shelf is the holding area for clips just captured or not currently being used in the movie.

Play head Scrubber Bar The Play head moves across the scrubber bar under the monitor

Moving Clips Once you know the content of the clips, begin making a movie by moving the clips from the shelf to the movie track in the clip viewer. Each clip’s first frame is shown in the Clip Viewer. Drag a clip from the shelf to the movie track. To move multiple clips, hold down the Shift key while clicking on the clips of your choice on the shelf or choose Select All in the Edit menu. Move all clips you want to the Clip Viewer. Clip Viewer Movie track

To add a transition: 1. Click on the Transitions button. 2. Choose a transition from the transitions palette that appears. 3. Choose the speed of the transition into or out of the clip by moving the duration slider. 4. The slower the transition, the more time it takes to render. 5. Drag the transition from the transitions palette to the desired location (at the beginning or end of a clip) in the clip viewer.

Nikos Theodosakis Directors in the Classroom will be speaking at Spring CUE 2002 “ Filmmaking develops visual literacy And at every stage it fosters research, organization, planning, analysis, and Synthesis skills. It also develops oral, visual and writing presentation skills.”

Exporting To A Quicktime File The final movie can be exported to a QuickTime file and used online for distribution over the Internet or on CD-ROM. To export the movie to a QuickTime file:

Free Backgrounds sets from Apple for Imovie. ml

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References: (Used with permission) Weiner, N (2001). iMovie Tutorial Retrieved May, from