Lesson 5 - iLife 06 Textbook

Once you complete Lesson 4 and after having created your two PDF documents of the two iPhoto Books ("Petroglyph" and "Book of Choice") you can move on to Lesson 5. Make sure that these PDF documents are in the Server under your Digital Application's Class folder (1 or 2) and under your name (in Documents). This is how I will grade these books; if I don't find them I cannot give you a grade. If you had computer problems please remind Mrs. Feld.

Start reading page 148, Customizing Your Slideshow and The Automatic Ken Burns Effect. You will add this effect to the Birthday Party Slideshow (check page 149). Then in pages 150 - 156 they show you and explain how to manipulate the Ken Burns Effect and change it. Read these pages carefully and practice how to do this several times; this will be useful when working with the iMovie program, since you can do the same there.

Before you continue on page 156 - "Making Slideshows With iMovie" I (Mrs. Feld) will show you a PowerPoint presentation about this program (iMovie) and will teach you how to create a simple slideshow. I will give you some tips and general guidelines.

Once you create a simple iMovie with pictures of your choice I will let you know when to start working on pages 156 to 184 ("Making Slideshows With iMovie").

iMovie is the video editing software. With iMovie you can easily create movie projects that include digital video, photos, and music; as well as narration and text. iMovie can be used to build sophisticated and dynamic slide shows (videos), without necessarily using a camcorder. You could create video science reports, your own short films or historical documentaries. You can access your iPhoto albums from within iMovie.

You can also create a movie in iMovie by using a video from a digital camcorder. Video is more real than still photos. To make a video you need to “shoot” and to “edit.” Video is a “process.” Unlike iPhoto, iMovie doesn’t automatically import your video when you plug in your camcorder.

You can also add narration and sound effects to a video in iMovie. With interviews instead of music, a product changes from a “music video” into a “documentary.”

iMovie vs. iPhoto:

•One of the important distinguishing features of iMovie as compared to iPhoto is the ability to add text and titles. Titles are elements that can be made to play over a black (or single-colored) screen, or over the moving video of your project.
•In iMovie you can link certain sounds to individual images. You can be more flexible with music; and add narration.
•In iMovie you can add text and titles and integrate them with the images and music.
•You can create a more dynamic and sophisticated slide show, compared to iPhoto.
•You can add special visual and sound effects.

Similarities:

•You can create slide shows with both iPhoto and iMovie.
•You can add motion to still photos using the Ken Burns Effect on both iPhoto and iMovie.
•You can have background music of your choice by accessing your iTunes playlists from both iPhoto and iMovie.

Vocabulary:

iMovie
Ken Burns Effect - what is it?
Transition (check page 141 and 181)
Viewer or Monitor
Clip Pane
Workspace
Clip View or Clip Viewer
Timeline View or Timeline Viewer

Playhead
iMovie Tools (Clips, Themes, Media, Editing and Chapters
Photo Settings

Duration Slider
Zoom Slider

Copy and paste in your iMovie notes: the definition of iMovie and the differences and similarities between iPhoto and iMovie. Also read pages 158 - 161 and find definitions for the vocabulary terms above in Lessons 4 and 5. You can also go to the Index pages at the end of the iLife 06 Textbook.

Remember all the necessary steps you have to follow in order to create a movie in iMovie. How do you change the Photo Settings to increase the timing on clips (photos)? Where do you go to download photos from iPhoto and music from iTunes. How do you add titles and text to your pictures or on a black screen? How do you change the Ken Burns Effect and how do you reverse it? Ho do you add transitions and special effects? How do you trim music or clips? Read the Lesson Review and Answers on pages 190 and 191.

Remember that the Textbook Exercise, the "Sgraffito Technique" Movie, will count as a Test. This exercise is due on Friday, October 9th, 2009. Make sure that it looks professional, with proper timings and complete text script. You have the choice of entering the text -with the different steps on how to create this technique- over pictures and over a black screen (I need to see both). If you don't have the Sgraffito Technique script and the sample movie on your desktop, please go to iLife06> iLifeLesson5> Lesson 5 and drag these items there. You must only use the Fade In and Fade Out transitions throughout your movie (Fade In on the beginning of each photo and Fade Out at the end of each clip) - set speed at 0:14 or 1 second max, no greater than 1 second per transition please! READ THE BOOK INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY! Preview your movie often by going to the Timeline View. Remember to drag the playhead to the end of the movie and then press the rewind button and click Play (play button). For extra credit: add music to the movie (appropriate music for this type of slideshow). Save your project OFTEN and when finished, convert into a QuickTime Movie and put in the Server (under your Digital Applications Folder). Try it to make sure it works.

To convert iMovies into QuickTime Movies: go to "Share" on the Menu Bar and select QuickTime> CD Rom under "Compress Movie for" and click Share.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask Mrs. Feld. We will have a Test on iMovie Thursday, October 29th.

Your Own Album & Slideshow & Lesson 4

Once you complete all the instructions from previous blogs, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, the Birthday Party Slideshow and a Slideshow for each of your albums (which should be in their respective folders) in the Source Column you can create your own album and slideshow.

Please select a theme, example: flowers, and download pictures of your theme in iPhoto. You can find pictures in the iLife06 folder in the Server. You can also find pictures of you choice online or bring pictures from home. Create an album with the theme's title and then create a Slideshow with music of your choice. Show the album and the Slideshow to Mrs. Feld. These will count as a Quiz for the First Quarter.

When this is done we can move on to Lesson 4, page 115 "Making a Bound Book." Follow the instructions carefully up to page 136. After creating the textbook exercise you will create a Book with pictures of your choice (examples: Flowers or Cute Animals). Pick a Book Type (example: Contemporary Theme). Enter a title of your choice in your Book Cover. Download pictures (favorite). Enter text if book type allows it. You must have at least 20 pages. When done you will create a PDF document of your book. Check instructions below.

How to convert a a Book into a PDF File: Go to File > Print and then select PDF (bottom left of window). Then select Save as PDF.

You should also start looking at home for pictures of yourself (from baby to now). You will scan them in class and later create a Book with your pictures. You must have at least 10 pages. Convert to PDF. Save in Server under your Digital Applications Folder - under your name.

Any questions? Please ask Mrs. Feld. Thanks for all your cooperation! I appreciate it!

Lesson 3 - Organizing and Refining Your Photos

For this lesson you will import the following folders from iLife 06 (in the iLifeLesson03 folder): L3.Biz roll 1, L3.Biz roll 2, L3.Biz roll 3, and L3.Dad roll 1.

Follow the instructions carefully from pages 74 to 108. You will also copy the Lesson Review on page 109 in your iPhoto Notes.

Tip: you can always undo the last thing you did by pressing Command-Z or going to Edit > Undo.

Vocabulary & Things to Learn:
Album/s and how to create New Albums
How to reorder shots
How to select contiguous shots
How to select non-contiguous shots
How to add comments, keywords and ratings to your images
How to view the Information Pane (or Box)
How to create Smart Albums
How to crop photos
How to adjust and enhance the look of photos
How to remove red eyes
How to straightened crooked photos
How to create folders in your source column (to organize your sources)

When you complete the exercises in this lesson please go to page 137 (in Lesson 4) and create a slideshow for every album in your Source Column.

iPhoto - Lesson 2

On Friday (9/11/09) I gave you a handout about iLife and its Suite of products. Remember that this material will be included in your Test of September 24. Just make sure that you know a simple definition of iLife and each of its programs (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand) and understand the similarities between iTunes and iPhoto. We also started with Lesson 2 in the iLife06 Textbook.

I need you to copy the two questions and answers at the bottom of the First Blog of September 7 (previous blog entry below) in your iPhoto Notes.

By now you should know how to download pictures into iPhoto, how to create film rolls, how to open and close these rolls, how to delete and rotate pictures and how to change the information in the "Information Pane" (Titles of Film Rolls and Date). The name of the first roll you imported was changed from L2 Student roll 1 to Student roll 1, and the date was changed to Friday's date.

Class Homework – for your iPhoto Notes:
Copy the following: The Command key is the "apple" key on the Mac Keyboard, and type the Tip on page 69 (practice this so you understand what they’re talking about).

Also, answer the following questions - you can work in groups of two to answer these:
1. Where are the “Sources” in the iPhoto Window? What’s in there?
2. What is an “album” in iPhoto? How do you create an album? Mention 3 ways.
(Check Lesson 3 – pg. 76)
3. How are iTunes and iPhoto similar? (Mention at least three similarities)
4. What happens to the photos when you import them in iPhoto (where do they end up)?
5. When you are importing pictures from a digital camera, how do you know iPhoto is ready to import them?
6. How are the Library photos organized in iPhoto?
7. What do you do to view your photos by “film roll”?
8. How do you open and close a roll?
9. Where is the roll label?
10. How can you change the roll name?
11. How do you delete unwanted pictures?
12. How do you rotate or reorient your photos?
13. How do you change the default direction in which the Rotate Button rotates your photos?
14. How do you select consecutive multiple shots at once?
15. How do you select shots that aren't next to one another (non-consecutive)?

You will have to study these notes and questions for your First Test - September 24. Also review your notes on “What is Digital” and the iLife handout.

* If you complete the exercise and the class homework before other students, you can do the following practice: download pictures of your choice (one theme, ie. flowers) - from the Internet or from your digital camera (you can also connect to the Server and download photos from the iLife 06 folder - ask me for more directions). Organize them all in one film roll. Change the name of the roll to the "theme name". Delete unwanted photos, rotate the ones that are not right side up.

Practice how to create a simple Slideshow from all your film rolls. Make sure all the pictures are selected (by clicking the film roll's title) and then simply press the Slideshow button at the bottom of the iPhoto window. Select music of your choice (by clicking the Music button) and change the Settings so that the slideshow doesn't repeat over and over. Make sure the Automatic Ken Burns Effect is checked and leave 3 seconds as the Play time for each slide. You may select a different transition. Practice changing the transitions and playing your slideshow several times. Show Mrs. Feld. I need to check that you completed all the necessary steps before moving on to Lesson 3. Thanks for your cooperation!

Digital Applications Classes 2009-2010

Welcome Class! First you will learn generalities about Digital Technology (What is Digital?) and the iLife Suite of products (iLife applications): iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and GarageBand. You will learn to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos using iPhoto; while creating albums, books, and slide shows - we will use the iLife 06 Textbook. We will also learn: What are pixels? What are file formats? How can we use the iLife applications to manipulate digital media? What can we do with these programs? Be patient! You have to learn the essentials. The faster you learn the faster we can work on interesting projects and fun hands-on activities.

Then, you will start working with each iLife application more extensively, following exercises and learning how each one works and how we can integrate all of them when we are creating digital media projects.

The first program that you will learn is iPhoto. COPY THIS DEFINITION: iPhoto is the photo software. iPhoto makes it easy to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos; allowing you to create your own Albums, Books, Slide Shows, Web pages and Movies. You can store and organize photos for use in your digital movies. iPhoto is organized much like iTunes; on the left side of the screen (window) are the "sources" - a Photo Library and a bunch of Albums. With iPhoto you can automatically import content from your digital camera - which is copied onto your hard disk and organized in your Library - and you can print photos. You can select music from iTunes to accompany a slide show (the program connects automatically to your playlist in iTunes.) iPhoto can play one song or an entire iTunes playlist to accompany a slide show. You can also add motion to your still photos in iPhoto using the "Ken Burns Effect."

Similarities between iTunes and iPhoto:

- The screen or window is organized in the same way. Left column for “sources”.

- Both programs have Smart Albums/Playlists.

- Both let you make your own Albums/Playlists by dragging songs/photos from the Library.

- Both allow you to share songs/photos with other Mac users in your local network.

- Both essentially organize your digital content.

- Both programs show up in other iLife applications.

So, you will learn to download, organize, edit, and share digital photos; you will be able to create your own albums, books, slide shows, web pages and movies. You can also store and organize photos for use in your digital movies (using iMovie). You will also learn to select music from iTunes to accompany a slide show and to create special sound and visual effects.

We will start with page 58 in the iLife 06 Textbook: "Getting familiar with iPhoto." Read pages 58 and 59 (skipping for now "Importing From a Camera") - please try to understand what you are reading; if you have any questions, please ask Mrs. Feld. Then, go to page 61 and read "Prepare for the Lesson." You can find the iPhoto application in the Finder under Applications. You will download the entire folder called L2.Student roll 1 into your open iPhoto window. iPhoto will automatically start importing the folder of photos. Continue reading the whole chapter to page 70 and follow the book instructions.

Copy the following questions and answers in your notes:

1. How do you import pictures into iPhoto from a folder on your computer? Just dragging the folder into the main iPhoto window.

2. Name two things you should do right after you import photos: Deleting bad images and rotating the remaining images so they're properly oriented.