Presented By The Social Studies Section Of The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction This Presentation Was Created From A Presentation Developed by Melanie Honeycutt & Mary Lou Daly That Can Be Found At

Teachers and students can produce videos for a variety of reasons:  to inform  to instruct  to demonstrate  to engage  to inspire  to access  to give feedback Essential Questions: 1.What story can you tell that might make learning more significance for the student? 2.What information can you share meaningfully using video? 3.How can video be used to make the learning experience meaningful and more understandable? How Can Teachers Use Video?

Let’s Take A Look At How Can Teachers Use Video Geometric Shapes Movie- (Created by students at a school in Burke County. Provided for this presentation by Melanie Honeycutt) American Revolutionary War Movie Trailer (Done by Michelle McLaughlin)

Go to your computer and click on Windows Movie Maker (MM). Let’s Get Started

First Things First 1 st Let’s Set Our Defaults in Moviemaker (MM) –Open Windows MM –Click on Tools then go to Options –Click on General Then set up your Storage folder Make sure Auto- Recovery is set

Default Settings Click on the advanced tab This can be set here or done manually in the movie Note the picture duration Choose Video Format (NTSC) Choose Aspect Ratio (4:3)

Set up a place where you can find your MM stuff.

Let’s Go Back To Movie Maker

Why The Collections Feature Is Important

How to Manage Collections Capture Video Or Images First Always create a new collection  Importing Video always creates a new collection, unless it is still pictures. Import everything (stills, video and audio) into that collection Or you can create sub collections to be more organized You can copy or paste and drag between collections.

So what have we done so far? Opened Window Movie Maker Set up defaults Gone to My Documents or Flash Drives and set up a folder for all of Movie Maker clips, files, etc. Learned the importance of putting everything into the Collections file

Creative Commons How Do I Use It? vs. CC

You can also go directly to Flickr by using this URL:

The Storyboard: Planning the video Images__________________________________________ Transitions_______________________________________ Effects__________________________________________ Audio (Voiceover)_________________________________ Audio (Soundtrack)________________________________ Images__________________________________________ Transitions_______________________________________ Effects__________________________________________ Audio (Voiceover)_________________________________ Audio (Soundtrack)________________________________

Now, Go Back To Your Blank Movie Maker Screen And Become Acquainted With The Task Panel And Tool Bar Features.

You Can Use The Movie Task Bar Or You Can Use The Top Tool Bar Menu Working in Movie Maker

Adding clips to the Project 1.The first step is to IMPORT pictures, video, audio, etc. into your Collections Panel.

Once you have imported clips into the collection panel you can add clips to the project. 1.Click image in the Contents pane. 2.Drag to the first open frame 3.Release your mouse Let’s practice.

Adding Transitions 1.Click target transition 2.Drag to transition box in storyboard or between two clips in Timeline 3.Release Mouse 4.Click first clip and click play in monitor to preview To change a transition drag and drop. To delete, click on transition and delete.

Adding Effects 1.Click target effect 2.Drag onto clip on Timeline 3.Release mouse 4.Click clip and click Play in Monitor to preview 5.Add up to five 6.Drawback – can not customize effects, but adding multiple effects intensifies impact

Time slider to move around the project Plus & minus key to zoom in and out Working in the Timeline Edit line

Adding Titles & Credits 1.Click Tools > Titles & Credits 2.Click add title at the beginning of the Movie or wherever you desire 3.Type in the Title

Adjust Font and Color Adjust Animation to the Title

Adding Audio 1.Above the Storyboard, click Show Timeline 2.Click and open Collection containing audio files 3.Click and drag audio file to audio/music track 4.Release mouse Editing on the cutting room floor:

Narrating the Project 1.Click on Tools > Narrate Timeline 2.Click start, speak normally, click stop 3.MM2 opens a save audio file box. Name and save the file and MM2 inserts it into the audio/music track.

Adding Audio Finding music that you can legally use is important. You can go to Creative Commons Or You can go to many free music sites directly. –Let’s go to the internet and type into the address bar

Using Audacity to Add Audio 1.Adding music or already produced audio sound 2.Adding your own narration or recorded sound Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

Some Important Advanced Skills “Splitting and Trimming” 1. In the Contents pane or on the storyboard/timeline, click the clip you want to split. 2. On the Play menu, click Play Clip, and then click Pause 3. Clip on the Play menu to pause the video at the point you want to split the clip. -or- 4. On the monitor, move the playback indicator on the seek bar to the point you want to split the clip. 5. On the Clip menu, click Split.

Trimming clips By trimming clips, you can edit the starting and ending point—and therefore the length—of any video or audio clip that you have added to your project on the timeline. When trimming, you can set the start and end trim points. The start trim point determines when the clip will begin to play, and the end trim point determines when the clip will stop playing in your project. Why Trim clips? By trimming clips, you can hide unwanted parts of an audio or video clip or file. When you trim a clip, the information is not removed; it is hidden from your audience, so unwanted parts do not appear in your project and final saved movie. You can drag the trim handles to trim the unwanted parts of the clip.

Saving Your Work!!! The movie task panel will only appear “live” or “hot” when you have a movie open that has been saved as a project. But…you do not want to save using this task bar until you have done some other saving steps first.

Saving Your Work!!! You must 1 st save your movie as a project. 1.Select “save project as”. 2.Then name the project. Now you can come back to the project and work on it at any time to get it just as you want. This step is important because once you save the project as a “movie” you cannot do anymore changes. Only when you are ready to save the project as a “movie”… 1.Select “save movie file”. 2.Once you have done that you will see some dialogue boxes come up. 3.Make certain that you are saving your movie as a MWAV file. 4.Just answer each dialogue box by clicking either “next” and then “finish”. 5.Make sure that you pay attention to where you are saving the movie. 6.You should be saving it to the FOLDER that you have created for saving your movies into your documents. 7.Your movie will take a few minutes to save.

Participants begin to practice and experiment with making a video using Movie Maker. Participant’s Tasks 1.During your two hour lunch work in pairs or groups to go out and take pictures that can be used to develop a collaborative work in making a video. 2.Return at 2:00 to put together a video with transitions, effects, credits and titles, and audio. 3.Start planning your own storyboard for a content video that you want to make.

Let’s Make A Movie! That’s a Wrap!