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Student Development

Making a videoMatthew Mobbs

e: mjm33@le.ac.uk

web: http://www2.le.ac.uk/Members/mjm33

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What we are doing today

• Look at the process of video production; planning, audio, visuals and editing

• Have a go at editing a video. Two useful tools.

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Planning

Good planning and preparation is key when it comes to making videos

• Subject of the video

• Style

• What is to going to be said

• How do you visually represent

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A good example…sort of!

http://www.youtube.com/v/YtGSXMuWMR4

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Storyboarding

What will be seen?

What will be said? Me talking about… The Dummo in Florence…

30 Seconds 20 Seconds 1 Minute

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Audio

The audio on a video gives a narrative and often directs what is seen on screen

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/or

CFS

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Audacity Checklist

• Good microphone

• Record each section of your video as an individual track

• Export sound as Multiple Files

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Visual

Visuals are used to illustrate to the point being made

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Editing

There are several packages available, we will use Window Movie Maker

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Task

Download Media Files

1. Go to http://tinyurl.com/yexttgz

2. Download and Save the file Media Files.zip in you’re My Documents

3. Extract the file (it is compressed)

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Window Movie Maker

1. Open Window Movie Maker

2. Import the media files just downloaded

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Put the video on the timeline

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ExportSave your video as a .wmv giving it a sensible name

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An Alternative

http://screenr.com/

Online video recorder, one shot, limited to 5 minutes