Making Movies

Tonight our instructor started us off by having us do some work to our existing and in progress websites. We were given step by step instructions on how to go in and add more pages by saving the already existing homepage over and over under a new name. We then proceeded to work on our classroom page and various others such as : teacher bio, resources, tech projects, and classroom news. Most everyone had something different on their pages depending on what their primary subject was. We went in and linked all of them so that when we come back we'll be able to finish our websites by simply adding the information that goes within each page. Next, we moved on to making a movie out of our saved images. Some students found new images that they wanted to use for their movie and others simply used the same digital images that we had saved for our scavenger hunt assignment earlier in the year. I used my scavenger hunt pictures even though it wasn't neccessarily connected with art. The scavenger hunt pictures we took were explaining English in action. We took digital photographs illustrating things such as verbs, nouns, punctuation etc. I felt that even though these images centered around English it might also be a good way of illustrating what visual images are capable of when communicating an idea to the viewer. We put our images into I-Movie. This was a program already on the Mac computers in the lab and then the program did most of the work for us. We were able to decide what order the photographs would be shown and we titled the movie depending on what the primary subject of our images was about. Once we put our images in the order we wanted them to appear, we put in transitions between each one to make the movie more interesting when moving from one image to the next. These transitions consisted of things such as a fade, tunnel, or wave leading the eye in and then out of the picture. Lastly, we found and added some music into our movie to make it complete. I felt this assignment was fun because it allowed us all to show our images in an individualistic way.