1. Advocacy Project Make a message to send to our MEP
Created by
Camilla Fanning
2015

3. Learning Outcomes Making a video Research ICT / Web Quest / Search
Communication & writing
Creativity
Teamwork
Organisation and planning

4. MEP
How to have influence

5. Influence your MEP
We can write to your MEP and also show him your video
What will we say to convince her?
MEP = Member of the European Parliament
Find out about MEPs – look it up under ‘European Parliament’
Some questions we might ask – What does an MEP do? Where do they work?
Who is your MEP? Write a short biography of her or him.
Who would like to be an MEP some day?

6. Choosing your topic What do we know already?
What questions do we have?
What do we need to find out to answer these questions?
Where can we find the information to answer these questions?
Do we have an idea or a suggestion about how to do things better?
Explain this – ‘Make a case’!

7. Preparation Research our topic, question and idea online
Keep a record of what we find interesting and useful
Keep a record of what URLs we go to as well
Make a Project Folder – give a name we will not forget!!!

8. Publish Online
We will then use this information to make a short video to explain our ideas
We can then publish it online so it is easy to share
Remember to give it a good title!
We will write a letter to the MEP we each choose – and include a link to our video

9. Making our video Research the question Prepare the images
Prepare the script
Make the video
Publish and send

10. About animation Think of a Stick figure on flicked pages
Made up of still photos and drawings
First using PowerPoint to sort out your images
Then using Moviemaker –ready to share
And we can add sound
Music – there are free sources online
Using Word to write your script for a voice over
Put it on the web or social media to share it

11. The Advocacy Video By now we have chosen and researched our topic
We have kept a record of what we find interesting and useful, and the URLs we visited
Do we have an idea or a suggestion about how to do things better?
Explain this – ‘Make a case’!
This is what your Video is about

12. Words & Images
We are going to collect together all the materials we need to make our video
Words
Images
We can start with whichever we prefer
These will be combined in the end

13. WORDS
We are going to write a script
Select some key points from your research and keep these
Make a Word file for these
Our script will be used to record a voiceover
We will need 10 sentences which will give us a 1 minute long voiceover

14. IMAGES Also collect images we need to illustrate your ideas
Make sure these are all kept in one folder on our computer
We can use photos, diagrams and graphs
We could make our own drawings and diagrams too
Name each image file VERY CAREFULLY

15. Preparing the images
We are going to use PowerPoint to prepare the images
We will use just the images but with no words
Use the simplest PowerPoint template for this
We will be making a sound recording of the words to add as a voice over to the final video

16. Images ready for Moviemaker
Converting PowerPoint
The ‘Save As’ box will open.  
In the ‘Save As Type’ drop-down menu, select JPEG File Interchange Format and click Save.
A selection box will open.
Select the option Every Slide in this box
It will appear in our folder as a new folder full of images – these are now ready
Give this a name and put it our project folder

17. Making the Voice over
We are going to record the voice over with an app
First practice reading your script
Decide who will read which bit
When we are ready we will record the voices
This makes a sound file we can use for our video
Put it in our project folder

18. Preparing your audio files
We have made a recording of a voice over
Now add it to our animation
First make sure we have the right type of file for Movie Maker
Go to to change the file type if we need to (follow the instructions).
Download the result to our project folder and name it

19. MOVIE MAKER We now have a sound file and our images
We need to bring these images into Moviemaker – have this app ready and open
Bring all these files into Moviemaker.
(TIP: Match the images to the sound – they are easier to edit!!)
Now we can edit this movie - add a Title and Credits.
Your movie is ready to publish!!

20. Your movie is online
We can publish our finished movie directly online from YouTube – OR
Save the movie to our project file – (choose : File –save movie – recommended for this project) and then add it to whichever social media platform we like. OR
Send the whole file via

21. Next… Now we wait for a reply!! Who will we contact next?
What is our next advocacy action going to be about?

22. Learning Outcomes Making a video Research ICT / Web Quest / Search
Communication
Creativity
Teamwork
Organisation & Planning

23. END
Camilla Fanning
2015