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.