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=Digital Storytelling=

The students are to make a one to three minute digital movie. The topic is your choice, but including music in some way would be nice. You can re-write a score, get your friends to play it, or, if you want to use pre-recorded music, you will need to get permission if you need more than 30 seconds.

Your choice of applications are MovieMaker, which you can use with photos or video clips, or PhotoStory3, which only uses photos. (Or IMovie or GarageBand, if you have a Mac at home.) Please put your final movie on an external storage device like a jump drive (memory stick, flash drive, thumb drive, USB, etc), or CD. TUSD has horrible bandwidth issues and cannot stream videos.

For Library Practice Students: Your task is to create a book trailer. You must each submit a movie on a book of your choice, but you can work together in terms of acting in each other's movies.

I need to see: 1. Your storyboard - pick a book that has never been made into a movie, age appropriate (no picutre books) 2. Your script and any sound effects you want to add Be careful using music - you only get up to 30 seconds without violating copyrigh law You can use freeware/shareware, though 3. Shoot your movie 4. Put all your movie pieces into one file - your images, video clips, sound, etc. Be sure to include a title page and a credits page. 5. Open MovieMaker, import your "pieces" and create your movie. You can only save it as a project if you have all the pieces in one file - on a jumpdrive? the desktop? And you have to use the same computer each time you work on it unless you have an external storage device. 6. When you are finished, you save your movie to a CD or Jumpdrive. You "publish" it. Once it is published, you can't do anymore work on it.

Problems, questions? email me - cheryl.beran@tusd1.org