Year 9 Art

Narrative

Linear Video Editing

Year 9 Art - Narrative

• You have already looked at narrative (story) structures in painting and started to look at the sequencingsequencing of images, through technology, by making magazine-style “photostoriesphotostories”

• Now you are going to look at the structure of the moving image and edit some video footage.

Year 9 Art - Narrative

• Objectives of this lesson

• Encounter digital video editing software

• Import video clips

• Edit video clips

• Save as project

• Make a movie (rendering)

Year 9 Art - Narrative

Task: using the “Jerry” storyboard, make a movie:

• Follow this tutorial• Edit clips together to make a narrative film. It

need not be the same as the original and need not use all the footage. Don’t make it too long.

• Print the screen of your finished Project window.• Extension: Add effects, not too many as it

becomes messy.

Year 9 Art - Narrative

Open your START menu

All Programs

Windows Movie Maker

Year 9 Art - Narrative

• You should get this window

Import Video

Year 9 Art - Narrative

• Click on IMPORT VIDEO from the left hand options

• Find the file named “Jerry the Troublesome Tyke”

• Double click it or select and IMPORT

Year 9 Art - Narrative• You should get a storyboard appear.

• SAVE AS: Jerry. your form. your nameMonitor

Timeline(linear)

Storyboard(clips)

Monitor controls

Razor/edit button

Year 9 Art - Narrative

• Click once on the ‘frame’ that you want to watch – it will appear in the monitor. Press PLAY arrow.

• You can stop, go back, forward (fast or each frame) using the monitor controls.

• You can use the razor/edit button to ‘cut’ the clip – the clip will appear as two separate clips in the storyboard.

Year 9 Art - Narrative

• You can then go to your edited clip in the storyboard and drag it into the top line of the timeline

• Doing this repeatedly will create a movie.

Play button

Counter/edit line

Year 9 Art - Narrative

• Under FINISH MOVIE, choose SAVE TO MY COMPUTER

Year 9 Art - NarrativeName the movie:• Jerry YOUR FORM

YOURNAME• Choose SHARED VIDEO

As the place to save the film• Click NEXT• Click NEXT• The movie will now take

quite a while to save

While you wait, write down your thoughts on using video editing software. Keep this and the print out to go in your sketchbook.