iMovie Projects
By now you already completed Lessons 3 and 4 of the iLife 06 Textbook. You organized your albums in iPhoto by creating the following folders: Biz Owner, Dad and Student. Mrs. Feld also asked you to create slide shows of your albums (Sgraffito, Company Press, Birthday Party and Ceramic Process) and to put them in the folders with their respective albums. You also created two "Books" - one called "Cool Pieces" using the finished products from the ceramic shop mentioned in the textbook and another with pictures of your choice. These books were converted into PDF files - which you will download in the Server into your Digital Applications folders as soon as Mrs. Feld tells you they're ready.
iMovies:
First you will create a small movie using still photos, to learn the newer versions of iMovie. You will select 10 or more pictures of your choice and drag them directly into your movie. Mrs. Feld will explain in class how to do this. You can also select pictures from iPhoto by going to Window and selecting Photos. You'll see your iPhoto albums and your iPhoto Library on the bottom right of your iMovie window (interface). When you find the ones you like, or the album you like, drag it directly into the Project area of iMovie.
You must learn to add transitions, change the timings, add text and music. Once you have this small slide show ready you will learn to convert it into a QuickTime Movie by going to Share and selecting Export Using QuickTime. This movie will be saved later in the Server.
Sgraffito Technique iMovie: Please review the instructions carefully and ask Mrs. Feld any questions you may have. After this slide show is completed you can start working on "The Story of My Life" Movie.
The idea is to create a fun iMovie with pictures of yourself when you were growing up (Baby Pictures and Others, ages 0 - 17 or 18), and hopefully to make you reflect on your life, your story (to date) and the story you want to create for yourself (what strengths, talents, weaknesses and dreams do you have?). I believe that all of us have the potential to create our own lives with our thoughts, our dreams, our intentions, our motivations, our desires and our attitudes. Hopefully, you will always embrace a positive outlook on life and believe in your dreams (I really hope so...) It's up to you to create a wonderful life for yourself! No matter what! And self-knowledge is a person's most important asset to live a full life.
iMovies:
First you will create a small movie using still photos, to learn the newer versions of iMovie. You will select 10 or more pictures of your choice and drag them directly into your movie. Mrs. Feld will explain in class how to do this. You can also select pictures from iPhoto by going to Window and selecting Photos. You'll see your iPhoto albums and your iPhoto Library on the bottom right of your iMovie window (interface). When you find the ones you like, or the album you like, drag it directly into the Project area of iMovie.
You must learn to add transitions, change the timings, add text and music. Once you have this small slide show ready you will learn to convert it into a QuickTime Movie by going to Share and selecting Export Using QuickTime. This movie will be saved later in the Server.
Sgraffito Technique iMovie: Please review the instructions carefully and ask Mrs. Feld any questions you may have. After this slide show is completed you can start working on "The Story of My Life" Movie.
The idea is to create a fun iMovie with pictures of yourself when you were growing up (Baby Pictures and Others, ages 0 - 17 or 18), and hopefully to make you reflect on your life, your story (to date) and the story you want to create for yourself (what strengths, talents, weaknesses and dreams do you have?). I believe that all of us have the potential to create our own lives with our thoughts, our dreams, our intentions, our motivations, our desires and our attitudes. Hopefully, you will always embrace a positive outlook on life and believe in your dreams (I really hope so...) It's up to you to create a wonderful life for yourself! No matter what! And self-knowledge is a person's most important asset to live a full life.
So, ideally, you should have at least 15 slides (clips) in your iMovie (including black screen with text). If you check the Rubric, you can have a better idea about what information goes on each slide. The first slide should be a Title Slide with your name on it ('The Story of My Life" and your name). You can put a picture of yourself on your Title Slide if you want. You can also create collages with your pictures and use your pictures more than once (it's easy to create a collage using PowerPoint and then you can use the Command-Shift-No. 4 keyboard shortcut to take a picture of your collage-slide - the picture will be created on your desktop). Just get creative! The pictures in iMovie must be JPEGs; if you download a Photoshop image (extension ".psd" into iMovie) the image will be red (at least this used to happen with older versions - I will check what happens with newer versions and let you know).
If you wish to organize your thoughts using a Word document or PowerPoint before you enter the text on your movie/slide show you can do that too. Whatever is easier for you. The final movie must look very professional. Add music of your choice and convert into a QuickTime movie when completed - like mentioned above. Trim the music and ask for help if you need it! Your classmates can help you too.
Also, please be careful with your timings. Make sure you have enough time to read the text and to see your photos. Also pay attention to your transitions, they shouldn't move too fast!
Ask Mrs. Feld any questions you have and also ask her how to scan your pictures. There are two different type of scanners in the Mac Lab and they work differently. The project is due October 14, 2011 (hopefully!).
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