Week 10 :: iMovie Basics

v    Objectives

Students will be able to create a simple iMovie with titles, transitions, and effects.

v    Standards

Students will demonstrate competency by 1. using titles over black and over clip, 2. using transitions between clips, 3. applying an effect over one or more clips, 4. using the Ken Burns effect to zoom in and to zoom out on still images, and 5. importing music to accompany the parade of still images.

v    Anticipatory Set

Working with iMovie is the reason many students sign up for the computers elective.  There is lots to learn about the features of iMovie, so this first project is going to be mostly about the technology and not so much about the content . . . that comes later when we talk about videography.

v    Teaching

a.     Input

Students leave the lab for the Teaching section (input through checking) to reduce distraction.  Teacher displays iMovie on an overhead and goes through tabs and options of the application iMovie, briefly mentioning the uses of each option.  Explain frames per second,

b.     Modeling

Now students work with the projected application (via a Bluetooth mouse that can go from student the student) to actually import photos, zoom in and out with Ken Burns effect, import music and split clips, etc.

c.     Check For Understanding

Before students go back to the lab, they need to be universally able to advise the student with the mouse on how to do the next task “How should Kevin put a title in between these clips here? . . . Tabitha?”

v    Guided Practice/Monitoring

Back in the lab, each student will acquire from the internet 10 photos of a historically important person.  This person must not be currently popular (I’m not looking for rock stars and basketball players), but must be historically influential.  These pictures will then be incorporated into a simple iMovie, and each of the five required iMovie options.

v    Closure

“Everybody show your neighbors your iMovie—you need to watch at least two other students’ shows.  Please notice sound, transitions, effects, etc. and see if they have done the five things I’ve asked.”

v    Independent Practice

Now expand your iMovie so that it goes to two minutes.  Use extra pictures that can supplement the headshots you already have . . . if you are doing a show of Thomas Edison, for example, you could have photos of 3 of his inventions to spice up the show.  Use titles and appropriate music to produce a quality product.