Digital Story Telling

March 2010Brigid McNamee

Table of Contents

Using Power PointSlides 3-7

Using iMovie to put

Sound and format your Power Point Slides 8-16

Using the iSight cameraSlide 17-22

Select Slide LayoutClick on the slide layout tab and select the layout for your slides.

Lesson 1: Using Power PointImport your pictures from the desktop and add your text.

Select Slide Theme

Click on the Slide Themes Tab and choose the style you want. You can change it at any time.

Tip for Class Projects

If each student in your class is creating a slide. Have them pass in the slide as a power point slide and create a new slide show with everyone’s slide.

Convert them as pictures all at once.

Be careful when instructing your class to save that there is a way to differentiate among the slides: ie: apples ryan

Save As PicturesWhen you have completed all of your slides you can save the entire work as pictures. This will create a folder on your desktop with each slide saved as an individual JPEG.

Adding Your Pictures to iMovie

When you saved as

pictures it creates a

folder with all the pictures in it.

Drag the folder into

iphoto.

Open imovie.

Create a new project.

Find the camera icon.

Drag the photos into the movie project

You can make adjustments

You can change the duration to make the picture show longer or shorter.You can change the effect…very cool choices!

The Ken Burns EffectThe Ken Burn Effect zooms inon pictures. Select Fit if youdo not want the pictures to zoom.

Record Voice OverClick on the microphone icon. Then click on a clip to start recording. It will beep 3, 2, 1. When you are finished recording, click on the clip to stop.

You can move and edit the audio

You can drag the audio to where you want it to be in yourvideo.

If you need to adjust volumeclick on the gear and chooseaudio. You can manuallyadjust the volume.

Adding MusicClick on the music note icon. Click on the iLife Sound Effects folder. Select the Sound/music you want and drag it to your movie.

Choose a Theme

Click file, project properties. That willopen the theme selection option. Select yourtheme and click okay. You can always change itLater.

Sharing your movie

You have lotsOf choices of howTo share your Movie. If you areGoing to burn a DVD send it to iDVD.If you are goingTo post it on a blogChose export MovieBecause you can makeA smaller file size which Allows the video to loadEasier on the internet.

Using the iSight Camera

Click on the camera icon on the left. This will open a new screen. Clickthe capture button to record. Click done when you are finished.

Think in layers when building your project.

1. Know how long your clip is.

2. Know what background you want behind the clip.

3. Create a background (with transitions if you want) that equals the length of your video clip.

4. Drag the green screen video on top of your background.

5. Click green screen.

Backgrounds

You can use images from your iphoto

You can use video clips

You can use plain backdrops.

Getting the images for your backdrop

To import a movie clip Select file, import, movies.

You can have a movie already saved on your desktop.

Pictures you get from your iphoto.

Backgrounds are selected when you choose text. (See next slide.)

Adding Text and Background

Select the T and drag aText style to your movieProject. If you don’t to Have text you can deleteThe text and have a plainBackground.

The window to select back-Grounds will open and youCan change it.

If you don’t have green screen as an option….

Click on iMovie and select preferences.Make sure show advanced tools is checked.