Movie Maker Wild Characters in the Orchard at East Taieri School 2010
Organise your characters and where you will take your photos. Make sure you have a flat surface for your camera – it is important to keep your camera still. Blu tac it to a chair or screw it onto a stand.
Plan what you want your characters to do...
Start taking your photos...move your characters very slightly between each shot. (Very slightly means tiny tiny tiny movements)
You will need to take heaps of photos 200-300 shots!!!
Put your photos onto your laptop in a folder
Open movie maker
Import photos from the folder that you saved them in
Save your project as you work on it
All your photos will come up so just click on each photo and drop into your story board below.
Click on view video effects
Click on Speed up double you need to click this three times onto each photo...this will take you a long time so concentrate!
Titles or credits – create your title and credits with text, colour and animation
View your movie so far make changes to speed etc... if you need to
Adding music
Windows Media Player will help you to rip your music from a CD.
Once this is done you can click on show timeline in the movie maker story board
Import music or audio once the music icon is in the upper section of your programme drop and drag this into the story board in the audio section underneath your photos.
If you want to use your voice to read your title – move the music along to the first photo
Click on microphone and press on start narration then stop save audio file this file will automatically drop into your music audio part
If the music goes for longer than your photos at the end click where the photos finish then click in the audio box with a right click and click on cut. Again you could narrate your own ending and insert at the end. Just keep playing and you will work it out!
Time to save your movie and send it to Peter Jackson!
File - save movie file - save to my computer or CD (there are other options also just read them)
Give you movie a title follow instructions once it is saved you can play it through windows media player on full screen while eating popcorn! Enjoy
We hope you had a fun day – Cheers Sarah and Garth, Teachers East Taieri School
