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= =Welcome to the Granville Bros Studios= I hope you found this page easily and get a bit out of the session on movie making. While I definitely don't call myself an expert in computers or in movie making, I do enjoy giving students opportunities to use computers on a regular basis. Students have had a blast making very simple movies in class and they seem to enjoy the process just as much as the end product. It's great fun and gives the students something to treasure down the track.

1) Gather or create film footage.    i) There is no hard or fast rule for this, so I suggest go with something that the students are familiar with in the first instance. Prepare a script, have them create pictures or film the students in their natural environment. ii) Capture the footage in to the computer. This is becoming easier with the use of SD cards and readers, youtube and a vast range of other programs that you can use to get access to your footage for editing.   iii) Windows Movie maker has a Capture Video option from the device which is simple to do.  iv) ________________________________________________________________________   ________________________________________________________________________    2) Share your footage. i) Once again there are a wide range of options.   ii) Share it over the school network on a shared drive/folder. iii) Put it into a Wiki where the students can access it.   iv) Put it onto a number of disks, flash drives or memory cards.  v) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  3) Start making the movie – it is a great idea to Save as you go, as movie making can place a load on a computer that makes it vulnerable to crashing.  i) Open Windows Movie Maker and Create a New Project.  ii) Import the footage and if you are looking at editing, allow it to create clips by checking the create clips box. If you just want to add some credits, then import it in its entirety.  iii) Set up your story board by dragging clips into the boxes at the bottom.  iv) Regularly switch between story board and timeline view to see how things are looking. Time is a fairly important constraint so always set this boundary very early on in the activity.  v) Crop, split or stretch scenes to suit your needs.  vi) Add special effects by selecting video effects and transitions between clips by selecting video transitions. Drag the appropriate effect into the scene of your choice. Place the transitions in the boxes that are between the scenes. Switch between story board and timeline view to monitor this aspect of things.  vii) Add a soundtrack, narration or sound effects. There are lots of choices here:  (a) You can use Audacity to record voices of students narrating or making sound effects.   (b) You can use an MP3 version of a song that you like.   (c) You can download lots of samples from a wide range of websites.    _________________________________________________________________    _________________________________________________________________  viii) Using the timeline, you can crop and adjust the volume of all of the samples of sound that you use.   ix) Finally, once you are happy with the quality of the movie that you have produced, you can publish it as a movie file (similar to Printing).  x) Grab some popcorn and watch your movies with your children. They can be the reviewers and you can discuss movies. As children get older and more experienced, they will be more capable at giving reasons for making choices about how they have put their movies together.