Continuing to Master Elements

This week the students will be finishing their still shot movie.  Then they will look at how to properly shoot an interview.

Today they are looking at learning effects to add to their still shot movie.  The tutorial is belows.




Busy Week!

Photo Collage Tutorial: Completing their Silent Photo Movie

Today the students will finish getting their footage and start editing together their story.  They will be exploring the different effects they can use to change the feel of a movie.  They will be using Audacity to create the soundtrack and create the mood.

It should be interesting to see their project.

Storyboarding and Shot Planning

The students have now engaged briefly with the core elements of Photoshop Premier Elements.  Now they will expand this knowledge by learning how to storyboard and plan a shot list.  The students will be getting their first Premier Element Challenge today.  They will be creating a 12 shot still shot movie on how to get from the A-Wing to the Production Lab in the G-Wing.

Below is their Educanon Tutorial.

Student log in is below

username: "studentfirstname"salk
password:  student1

Venturing into Premier Elements 10.....

Today the students will be given the opportunity to finish their Audacity projects and begin thinking about video editing inside of Premiere Elements. Their first official project of the unit will start tomorrow but they will begin watching the tutorials below to get an idea of how the interface works.



 

They will begin on Video ten of the play list.

Sound Engineering Continues.......

Today the students will be expanding their skills by learning the basic sound effect commands inside of Audacity.  They will be watching the tutorial below and then creating a 30 second sound loop from music they obtained from freesound.org.

Audacity Micro Lesson - Making a 25 second chipmunk voice recording

Today the students will continue to explore their Audacity Skills while preparing for their Commercials.  However, we are going to focus a bit on sound manipulations.  The students will be watching the tutorial below and creating their own chipmunk voice recording.





Should be an interesting sounding class by the end of the day!

Welcome to the world of Audacity - Sound Engineering!

This week the students will be learning the program of Audacity.  They will be accessing an account on freesound.org and building a 2 minute recorded commercial for their favorite brand of cereal.  Below is a beginners tutorial for Audacity





Students will begin exploring the program and have micro-lessons spread throughout the week as they begin to prepare for their 2 minute commercials