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iMovie Elective, Winter 2005-2006

OVERVIEW

Students will work in pairs to plan, create and edit one minute iMovies on a topic of their choice. They will go through the complete process of creating a video: brainstorming, storyboarding, shooting, and editing. In addition to shooting digital video, students will also incorporate digital stills.

The final iMovies will be "published" on The Cathedral School Intranet.

 

Tips on Taking Pictures

Kids' Vid
http://kidsvid.hprtec.org

This is an instructional web site! Excellent!

Atomic Learning, Inc.
http://www.atomiclearning.com
Log in using username: tcs and password. Choose Macintosh tutorials. The iMovie 3 and 4 tutorial is on the left side.

 

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
http://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/lois/photoguide.html

More tips.

 

iMovie Examples



This example of a school video is located on a page of with lots of iMovie clips.

NOTE: The About Iles School clip is located at the bottom of the page in the School Wide row of clips.


About Iles School

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie
More iMovie Topic Ideas

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/list.html

 

 

Springfield Public School District 186
Administrative Center
1900 West Monroe
Springfield, IL 62704



Commercials for the School Year
2001-2002

Check out:
  • Celebrating Visual Arts at Grant Middle School
  • Lindsay Second Graders Celebrate the United States of America
  • Lincoln School
iMovie Examples by Subject
http://www.apple.com/education/ilife

Where it says view projects by subject:

In Social Studies look at:             Living Yesterday's History Today and Meet the Artist

In Language Arts look at:            African Folktales

In Science look at:                         Pressure Effects

In Other look at:                            Fluency in a Foreign Language and Anti-Smoking Rap


The Cathedral School iMovie Elective Videos, Spring 2003



 

 iMovie Help Links



the Unofficial iMovie FAQ
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/index.shtml
Tips for Making Your iMovie

Edit Movies
http://www.apple.com/imovie/edit.html

Audio Effects
http://www.apple.com/imovie/audio_effects.html

Visual Effects
http://www.apple.com/imovie/visual_effects.html
from MacWorld

iMovie Lesson Three: Editing Music and Sound
http://www.macworld.com/2000/10/04/imovie.html


iMovie Lesson Four: Using Audio and Video Transitions
http://www.macworld.com/2001/03/05/howto/imovie_l4.html
 

Follow Fair-Use and Copyright Guidelines
  • Motion Media - 10% or 3 minutes.
  • Text - 10% or 1000 Words.
  • Poetry - 250 Words; no more than 3 poems by the same author.
  • Music, Lyrics, Video - 10% or 30 seconds.
  • Photos & Illustrations - 5 Images from one author.

Audio Links



Freeplay Music, Inc.
http://www.freeplaymusic.com

The great thing about this site is that they have clips of various lengths. Pick a category. Download ONLY clips up to 30 seconds. Note: When you save, add the extension .mp3 to the file name.

U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
http://video.fws.gov/sound.htm

These clips are public domain. Sound clips of birds, alligators, frogs, rattlesnake, bats, elk, whales, wolves