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IMovie Part One







iMovie Part One

Time – This will take one 45 minute period using the clips that have been included with this tutorial.

SETTING THE STAGE

1. Review the tutorial associated with this lesson. 2. Download the attached video clips and save them onto a thumb drive. (This is to ensure that the lesson can continue in the event the internet is down, slow, etc. and clips cannot be accessed via the internet)

Session Overview In this session, participants will learn how to import downloaded video from the internet, and crop and edit the video footage.

Focusing Questions How can I make my own movie? How can we use the medium of a digital video to tell a story?

Materials The following materials are used in this session: -Laptops (Apple laptops) -iMovie -Projector -USB microphone (optional) -A DVD of a school appropriate movie. (Only one 3 to 5 minute segment will be shown)

Resources The following resources can be used in this session. http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/import/ - (For further support) The help feature associated with iMovie.

INSTRUCTION (Typically lasts about 20% of session.)

Framing the Session

How a director chooses to edit clips effects the way the story is told to the viewer. What choices to we make when selecting scenes? Can we take footage, edit it, and make different stories? For example, maybe a director will choose to take a man smiling in one scene and replace his close up smiling shots with shots of him acting confused or angry. This affects the way the audience perceives the story.

Remember that everyone has opinions about movies. When we show our movies later in the period we will be talking about effective editing. Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese and Spike Lee routinely show their movies to audiences and make editing changes based upon their feedback. Not many people get it right the first time.

Teaching

Watch me as I show you how to download and import video into iMovie and learn how to edit video clips.

“Now it is your turn to try it.”

WORK TIME (Typically lasts about 60–70% of session.)

Getting Started

“Take the next 30 minutes to download the six video clips, two still images, and two audio clips and begin editing them in iMovie. Then we will come back together and share.”

Participant Activity Participants will... o Download video clips. o Import video into iMovie. o Drag clips into the Timeline and place them in order. o Edit clips using the Crop and Split Clip at play head feature. o Save the iMovie project.

Facilitator Conferring Circulate around the room and confer with participants. Make sure that, students are on task and able to connect their cameras to the computer. o Troubleshooting tips o Only the Firewire cable will work with the digital video camera. o Make sure the digital video camera is set to the play/edit mode. o Make sure the digital still camera is set to the mode that allows the viewing of digital images. Circulate amongst student groups to monitor progress. If students have finished early, ask them to save their work and explore different menu’s and options within iMovie.

Take note of particularly good examples of work that can be presented during the Share.

SHARE (Typically lasts about 10–20% of session.)

Share • Today we learned how to import video clips and edit our movies. Now we will look at how a few of you chose to edit your video footage. Lets examine how these filmmakers used editing to tell their stories. • Select student groups will have the opportunity to share their work. Students will share the following aspects of their project: • The topic of the student movie. • Review the process of importing video and still images. 1. Explain what was edited from your movie and why it was cut.

Special Notes: There is a difference between saving an iMovie Project and saving an iMovie for distribution. File > Save will save a project and allow you to go back and edit the movie. Exporting or Sharing the movie will change the movie into Quicktime format, which can be sent to classmates, friends, etc.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Author: Michael Stoff Email: mstoff@schools.nyc.gov School/Employer: NYCDOE Region 5 Title: Title IID Technology Staff Developer