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SAM Animation is software designed to allow students to create stop-action animations to share their ideas and understanding. The application provides a unique experience for students to show their understanding of projects in mathematics, science, english languge arts, social studies and more. Best of all it’s free!

Platforms – Windows and Mac

http://www.samanimation.com/

Note: The videos were created without extra lighting, only ambient fluorescent lighting was available. The camera used was a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS. The green screen and arm sleeve were created with green felt, and a hot glue gun to close the seam on the sleeve – total cost (without puppet) about $25.00.  The next step will be to create a portable stand from PVC piping, the cost should be about $40.00 (pictures to come).

Example 1 – Scene shot with actor and green screen. The shadows below the beaver puppet in the video are a result of poor lighting. The beaver apologizes for the bad acting, he blames the director! The beaver was appalled with his appearing to dive into solid ground.

http://blogs.wsd1.org/etr/files/greenscreen.flv

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Example 2 – Scene shot with actor in front of the green screen, no green screen filter (Transition in Movie Maker) has been applied.

http://blogs.wsd1.org/etr/files/greenscreen-no-chromakey.flv

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Example 3 – Scene shot with no background, but the chroma key/green screen filter (Transition in Movie Maker) applied. All we see is the beaver’s acting badly, or as the beaver likes to say, “suffering from bad direction”.

http://blogs.wsd1.org/etr/files/greenscreen-nobackground.flv

Where does videography fit in the curriculum…

• MECY – K-8 Interactive Continuum
  
• Student friendly K-8 Continuum
  
• Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy – Digital
• Senior Years LwICT 9-12 Framework

Windows Movie Maker – WMM Resources

Effects for Windows Movie Maker – XP

• Most of the above effects were downloaded from:
  • http://nickswmmsource.windowsmoviemaker.info/index.php

Transitions for Windows Movie Maker – XP

• Set 1 – A set of 8 transitions with various designs.
  • Download Set 1 – 2.06 MB
• Set 2 – Another set of 8 transitions with various designs.
  • Download Set 2 – 1.23 MB
• Set 3 – A set of 16 transitions using fractal designs. These transitions have color and the fractals are provided by Neophyte of the forums. The transitions and fractal images in this set can be used for personal, non-commercial purposes only!!
  • Download Set 3 – 4.66 MB
• Most of the above transitions were downloaded from:
  • http://nickswmmsource.windowsmoviemaker.info/index.php

Chroma Key (Blue or Green Screen) Transitions for Movie Maker – XP only

• This set of 14 transitions allows one to use blue or green screen techniques within Microsoft Movie Maker.
  • Download Set – 47 kb

Converting Movie Maker to Other Formats

• WinFF (WinFF provides an easy to use interface for FFmpeg) (Ver 1.04)
• http://winff.org/html/index_html

Making a DVD Using Movie Maker Files:

DVD Flick is a simple to use, but powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files and turn them into a DVD for playback on a DVD player, or computer. It allows one to add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles, and an easy to navigate menu.

• DVD Flick – Download version 1.3.0.6 – 12 MB
  • http://www.dvdflick.net/

ImgBurn is a very powerful, and fairly easy to use tool which allows one to burn in multiple disk types: DVD, HD DVD, Blue-Ray, CD (many formats)

• ImgBurn
  • http://www.imgburn.com/

Photography Tools

• Paint.net
  • http://paint.net/

Videography – BLMs

• Storyboarding Templates
  • WSD Template – 2 frames, no lines
  • WSD Template – 2 frames, lined
  • WSD Template – 1 frame, no lines

• Word List(pdf)
  • Videography word list

• Posters (pdf)
  • Crew positions
  • 10 Steps
• Shots List from the British Film Institute
  • Shot list (pdf)

Videos

http://blogs.wsd1.org/etr/files/final-cut-10-steps.flv

Final Cut – 10 Steps to Making a Video – Download

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http://blogs.wsd1.org/etr/files/media-smarts.flv

Media Smarts: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World – Download

Link to the video on Edutopia