Your First Video

Your missions to create a video using Windows Movie Maker. Before I get to the subject of your video here are the requirements for your video:

• your video should be at least 45 seconds long
• you should use at least three different video clips
• you should use a transition between every clip
• you should include a title and credits in your video
• EXTRA CREDIT: add music
• EXTRA CREDIT: use the video effects

TOPIC: Your favorite person/place/thing/activity. This gives you a great deal of freedom. Create a compilation of music videos, best surfing clips, Presidential speeches. Remember - keep it school friendly. Excessive violence or other inappropriate content will earn a zero.

VIDEO SOURCE: You will use online video. Remember, you cannot use video found on Google Video, YouTube or Yahoo video. Here are some sources to get you started:

http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/video.html

www.altavista.com/video - uncheck Quicktime, Real, Flash and Other

http://www.archive.org/details/movies

WIndows Movie Maker will only accept videos that play in Media Player. These are usually files ending in .asf, .avi, .wmv, MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, .mp2.

START by searching for videos and saving them to your I drive.

EDITING - copy the files to the computer's hard drive to edit them. Make sure to go to File, Save Project As while you are working. Save the project file to your I drive NOT the computer's hard drive.