1. Windows Movie Maker /6-12/Session 1 of 3 Workshop Title

2. Focusing Questions How can we import and edit video footage in Windows Movie Maker? How can we use Windows Movie Maker to tell a story? How can we save a movie project?

3. Instruction

4. Framing The Session How a director chooses to edit clips effects the way the story is told to the viewer. What choices do we make when selecting scenes? Can we take the footage, edit it, and turn it into a story? This lesson will focus on the following skills: Importing video into Windows Movie Maker Editing video clips in Windows Movie Maker Saving a Windows Movie Maker project

5. Teaching What are some of the sources of digital video? A video camera Online download (United Streaming, this lesson) A DVD (and additional software to import movies)

6. Guided Practice Today’s skill will focus on: importing digital video into Windows Movie Maker. editing digital video (trim clips, split clips, and add clips to the timeline) saving movie projects (see the tutorial for lesson 1 for specific directions)

7. Work Time

8. Getting Started Take the next 30 minutes to import video and begin editing your footage. Then we will come back together and share. Participant Activity Import video into Windows Movie Maker. Drag clips into the Timeline and place them in order. Edit clips using the Crop and Split Clip at Playhead feature. Save the Windows Movie Maker project.

9. Share

10. Students will share the following aspects of their project: The process of importing video. Explain what was edited from your movie and why it was cut. What part of this lesson do you feel students in other classes will need the most help with? Share

11. How does this work address the questions that began the session? Today we have seen how the choices we make as editors can effect the flow of the story. We have learned how to import digital media into Windows Movie Maker. We have learned how to edit digital film in Windows Movie Maker.