DIGITAL FAMILIES VIDEO EDITING with WINDOWS LIVE MOVIE MAKER
Design: Hannah Dix
TRAINER’S NOTES
OVERVIEW: DIGITAL FAMILIES Digital Families is a series of workshops focusing on the family coproduction of digital media. Its primary aims are to: • Develop parents’ and children’s levels of digital literacy • Promote further family engagement in community services • Foster a culture of family learning to support children’s education • Particularly for children with Special Educational Needs This project is funded by Samsung UK, undertaken by Bournemouth University and supported by Aster Homes and Skills & Learning BDP. Find us at digitallyfamily.com Twitter: @digitallyfamily
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TRAINER’S NOTES
LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this, I will be able to: 1. Plan and film a video for my Youtube channel 2. Understand extra editing & post-production techniques 3. Put these into practise during editing of a video Core Digital Skills 1. Be aware of copyright 2. Teach yourself simple tasks using tutorials 3. Operate a camera 4. Use basic video editing software 5. Share a digital creation online DIGCOMP • Communication: 2.1 Interacting through technologies, 2.2 Sharing information and content, 2.3 Engaging in online citizenship, 2.4 Collaborating through digital channels. • Content Creation: 3.1 - developing content, 3.3 - copyright & licences, 3.4 - programming
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LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Stop Motion Animation • Augmented Reality T-Shirt Printing • Family Blogging • Family Vlogging
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activity structure
Age group: This activity is best suited to families with children in years 3 - 9 (Key Stage 2 and 3)
Timing: We recommend taking a few hours to film for the vlog, with an additional 1 hour to edit.
Before you start... Make sure all cameras are fully charged and have a memory card inserted!
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WHAT DO YOU NEED? HARDWARE • • • •
COMPUTER/LAPTOP CAMERA MICROPHONE MEMORY CARD
SOFTWARE • WINDOWS LIVE MOVIE MAKER • YOUTUBE ACCOUNT (OPTIONAL)
ACCESSORIES • TRIPOD (for still shots) – if you don’t have one, you can use a big stack of books or place your camera on a high shelf, your fridge etc.
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VIDEO EDITING
Produce your film! Digital Families Video Editing
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SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER... NOTE: This is a more detailed guide to editing, following on from the activity guide for family vlogging. Suggested activity: TOUR OF MY LOCAL AREA. Go on a day out around your local town or city and take it in turns to film different landmarks, places you enjoy visiting, popular/quiet areas, or parts that you think tourists should/would like to see. 1. Once you have your footage/clips and you have imported it into your editing software, decide which ones you wish to include and delete any you do not require from within the program (they’ll still be saved elsewhere on your computer, phone/memory card). 2. Remember, you can trim and split clips to get rid of parts you don’t want Most editing software, even if fairly basic, offers a variety of editing tools. 3.Familiarise yourself with all the available tools and options within the software you’re using.
STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
TOOLBAR EXPLAINED Home - add videos and photos, music, webcam video, snapshots, title, captions and credits, AutoMovie themes, rotate, remove, select all, share options, save, sign into Windows Live
Animations - these are transitions between clips if you don’t want one clip to just cut to another and wish to add an effect.
Visual Effects - these allow you to change the appearance of the images in your video, whether photos or footage.
Project - Audio (a useful tool to balance audio from video and music), fit to music (edit the length of the images so it finishes as the same time as audio), aspect radio (change size of screen). View - zoom in and out, change the thumbnail size (the icons in your timeline) and preview in full screen. Edit (video tools) - change settings such as video volume, fade in/out, background colour, speed of clips and split/trim clips.
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STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE Options (music tools) – change music volume, fade in/out, split, set start time, start/end points.
Format (text tools) – change font style, size, colour, transparency, alignment as well as the start time, duration and effect.
ADD A TITLE 1. Click Home then the ‘Title’ icon
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STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
2. Drag the title in your timeline to wherever you want it to be.
3. You can then type in your title, and position the box where you’d like it to be, change the font style, size and colour and give the title an effect.
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STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
TAKE A SNAPSHOT 1. Drag the black line in your timeline where you wish to take a snapshot and then click Home in the toolbar and Snapshot
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STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
ADD EFFECTS TO IMAGES 1. Select the image or video that you wish to add an effect to, select Visual Effects
2. Choose your effect
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STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
EDITING AUDIO & VIDEO VOLUME 1. If you want to make your video footage louder and reduce the music volume on certain clips, you need to click on your timeline where you would like to change the volume, go to Music tools, and select ‘Split’. Then go to the other end of the clip, and do the same. Under Options, edit the music volume.
2. Then under Edit, alter the video volume and under Options, edit the music volume.
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STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
Remember, you can also use the Audio mix option under Project to balance the audio from music and video. You may need to split the clip in a few different places and play around with the volume options to meet your audio needs.
To view the video that was created using this tutorial, please visit the Digital Families Youtube page.
CLICK HERE
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