Video Editing
Video Editing Information:
According to www.freetech4teachers.com, there are 6 main types of videos used in a classroom..
1. One-Take: short message that can be recorded all in one take.
2. Audio Slide shows: still pictures that are accompanied by music or narration.
3. Screencast Instructional videos: Usually tutorials that show your desktop, with explanations of what is happening. (Think www.screencast-o-matic.com or other program...google it. )
4. Animated or cartooning videos: like using Powtoon or Scratch to make a video
5. Stop Motion or time lapse: Claymation or other still pictures set a .5 second intervals. Use PAINT to make and save pictures to put together into an animation.
6. Trailer/Short Film: 1-5 minute student video that tells a story of some kind. Using clips put together. Static camera and still camera...A roll and B roll. (Documentary would be longer)
There are four steps to creating any commercial/movie/trailer. They are listed below, with information and sheets that guide you through the process.
1. Preproduction: The idea. The concept. The most important part. If you don't have a good idea and story, you will never be able to do a video about it.
Look at the storyboard sheet. It can provide a format to outline your video. You may also want to just start and share a "google Doc" presentation with the members of your group. Each slide could be a scene or section of your video.
Storyboards include: Story, Characters, what they say, and motivation behind what they say, location, props, sound effects/soundtracks.
Using these storyboard, you should assemble your actors and PRACTICE your script, and fix it so that it makes sense. You aren't ready to use a camera until you can do a scene without one. You can use one of my storyboards, or you can script things out on Google Slides.
Go to http://wikihow.com/Make-a-Movie for some tips about making videos.
For cool intros to your videos, go to google.com and put in "free video loops". You'll see many sites that offer free loops like this one " http://www.movietools.info/video-background-loops/sport-loops/item/loop-196-basketball-loop.html " that you can use in your video. *Of course you will need background music. Try my #4 Resource area for free music clips and downloads. Here's a site to try as well. http://www.meejah.co.uk/copyright-free-music.html . Make sure you credit the site/author even if the music is free.
Here is another site that shows you 10 simple tips to make your video better. www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-simple-tips-to-record-great-looking-home-videos/
I also have iMovie on my iPhone that has files called "Movie Trailer Templates". If you have iMovie, you could start your Trailer from there, and add the videos. It is very limiting though. I would imagine, you can get some Movie Trailer Templates just by going to Google.com and searching, as well.
2. Production: The collecting
*checklist of parts that you may be using to put together your video. May Include images, sound, music, narration, video clips.
*You may use Audacity if you want "layers of sound", like narration, sound effects, AND music together. (MovieMaker only does 1 song and 1 narration)
*Go to my Music and sound effects Symbaloo page at the bottom of this page for freeware/shareware music and sound effects.
*Don't forget, you have Photoshop AND www.wordle.net and www.cooltext.com for fancy texts.
*Have you found a cool video or song for your project, but you need to convert it. Try "Any Video Converter" to convert it to a usable format. *You can find "Any Video Converter" in the "Utilities" folder on your desktop in my lab...or download it for yourself at home.
*A lot of the Production step is either collecting pictures, sounds, sound effects, music or title slide material. The other part, the more difficult part, is filming video clips to use. You need to have many clips from different angles to edit into a video. Most clips are 5-10 seconds long, meaning you might have as many as 12 clips per minute...more if you are editing parts of them out.
3. Post-Production: Editing and Creating the final product
In this step, all of the collected parts are edited and spliced together. Transitions, effects, Pan/Zoom are added. All the music, sound effects and etc are added and perfected. When you are finished, you actually make (compress) it into a mp4 or wmv or whatever actual movie type you want.
4. Distribution: How will you get it to your audience?
In this step, you actually show your video. Will you load it on a computer? Put it on YouTube, Vine, or Google+ or other? Will you try to sell it?
Here are some PARTS that are used in making videos:
*Still pictures *Video Clips *VoiceOver *Music *Sound Effects
Go to my webpage about video editing for more information and links to editors.
http://vestweblessons.weebly.com/mlb34-6-video.html
Links to an external site.