How can you use iMovie with iPads in the classroom? Well, your imagination is just the start. Everything from slow motion videography to documentation, to presentations, assessments and everything in between. This academy is designed to help educators design, structure, manage, and issue film challenges to students in any content area. Digital storytelling is an important 21st century skill and this academy will enable you to help your students tell a digital stories masterfully.

1. Martin Cisneros
Academic Technology Specialist
MCisneros@sccoe.org

2. GET THE PRESO AT
Martin Cisneros
Academic Technology Specialist
MCisneros@sccoe.org
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3. GET THE GOODS

4. VIDEO PROJECTS FOR THE CLASSROOM
WEB TOOLS & IOS APPS FOR VIDEO
CURRICULUM
INTRO TO MOVIE MAKING WITH IMOVIE
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3

5. WHY?

6. GO AHEAD…TAKE A
SHOT

7. WHAT HAVE YOU
LEARNED…THAT
EXCITES YOU!

8. HOW TO SHOOT
BETTER VIDEO ON
YOUR MOBILE GADGET
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9. STEP 1
Step 1. This is optional, but much of your video will probably be on your iPhone & iPad rather than your Mac.
You can run iMovie on an iPhone, but it’s much nicer on an iPad’s bigger screen. To transfer videos between
devices, simply use AirDrop. If your devices don’t support it, you can use a third-party app such as Simple File
transfer from the App Store, or transfer the videos via iTunes. Oh yes…..There is also Google Drive :-)
Get Your Video

10. SEND ANYWHERE
(FILE TRANSFER)
https://goo.gl/CrF457
INSTASHARE AIR
DROP
https://goo.gl/F6tOd0

11. YOU HAVE THIS!

12. CREATE A SHARED
FOLDER ON GOOGLE
DRIVE

13. DUMP VIDEOS FROM
ALL MOBILE GADGETS
IN SAME FOLDER

14. DOWNLOAD MOVIES
TO YOUR MAC

15. IMPORT MEDIA TO
IMOVIE

16. NOW WE CAN EDIT
THE FUN!

17. STEP 2Step 2. Launch iMovie and tap the + button to create a new project. You can
choose between a Movie and a Trailer. Trailers are fun, but we’ll focus on Movie
mode here. Tap Movie and then choose a theme. You can tap the play button to
watch a preview of each style.
Creating New Project
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18. THEMES ARE
AWESOME!

19. STEP 3
The Editing Layout
Step 3. You can change the theme
later, so don’t worry too much.
Choose one and tap Create Movie
in the top-right corner. You’ll see
the editing screen, with your
videos to the right, a preview
monitor on the left and, running
across the bottom, the timeline,
which is currently blank.
GRAB VIEW
EDIT

20. STEP 4
Arranging Video Clips
Step 4. Tap on a video and it
will be highlighted in yellow.
You can drag the left- and
right-hand edges to trim the
clip before you add it to the
timeline, or you can add the
whole clip (by tapping the
downward arrow) and trim it
later.

21. STEP 5
Step 5. You can zoom in and out on the timeline by dragging either bolded yellow
lined at the end of the clip along the timeline, very helpful when making precise
edits. For now, click the, and drop a portion video clip to select it, then you can
drag the selection to the bottom.
Precise Edits on Clips
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22. STEP 6
Step 6. Tap audio and you can adjust the clip’s volume. It’s useful to see the audio
track, so make sure this is visible by tapping the squiggly line next to the undo
arrow at the top-right of the timeline. Importantly, there’s also a Detach option,
which we’ll use later.
Adjusting the Audio on Clips
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23. STEP 7
Playback
Step 7. Tap the play button at the
top of the timeline to play your
movie. You can scrub through the
clip by swiping left or right on the
timeline. The white vertical line is
the playback marker. Make sure
the line is in the right-hand half of
the clip before adding another
video to the timeline.

24. STEP 8
Transitions
Step 8. Add another video to the
timeline by repeating step 4 and
you’ll see the transition icon
between the clips. Tap it and the
options appear at the bottom.
The default is theme special,
dissolve, but the others, left to
right, are straight cut, slide, wipe
and dip-to-black (or white) and
much more!

25. STEP 9
Editing Transitions
Step 9. You can change a
transition’s duration by tapping
the ‘1.0s’ option at the bottom
right, and then choosing either
0.5s, 1.5s or 2.0s. Some
transitions have a sound effect,
which is muted by default. Tap
the speaker icon to toggle
sound on and off.

26. STEP 11
Detaching Audio
Step 11. We’ve added an
establishing shot of the hotel,
followed by a clip showing inside
the room. To give your video a
pro feel, you can make the audio
from the second clip play over
the establishing shot. Right click
on the shot inside the room, then
click on Detach Audio. The clip’s
audio is shown in blue beneath it.

27. STEP 12
Editing Audio Part 1
Step 12. As with video clips, you can
tap and hold on an audio clip to
move it on the timeline. However, to
keep it in synch with your video,
don’t do this. Instead, select the
video to which it belongs and trim it
by dragging the left-hand yellow bar
to the right. The audio won’t be
trimmed, and will extend beneath
the previous clip – the establishing
shot.

28. STEP 14
Edit Audio Part 2
Step 14. To complete the edit,
tap on the transition between the
two clips and change it from
dissolve to a straight cut. Play the
two clips and you’ll see a
seamless transition between
them, with the continuous audio
making it a lot less jarring. It’s a
technique used in almost every
TV show, and is very effective.

29. STEP 15
Adding Theme Music
Step 15. You’ll want some
background music, so tap the
Audio button at the top-right
corner of the screen. You can
choose iMovie’s own music, or
any other music on your iPad.
Select a song and tap the
downward arrow to add it to
the timeline.

30. STEP 16
Adding Theme Music Pt2
Step 16. iMovie doesn’t allow
gaps, so it will insert the song
at the start of your movie. If
you don’t want that, or want to
have a gap between songs, just
trim the clip to the point where
you want music to start, and
use the slider at the bottom to
reduce the volume to 0%.

31. STEP 17
Adding Theme Music Pt3
Step 17. Now you can repeat step
15, adding the song again (or a
different song). There’s the same
Fade option to fade the song in
and out, and you can adjust the
volume. Note that iMovie will
automatically reduce the song’s
volume during a video clip that
has audio, but will otherwise play
at the volume you set.

32. STEP 18
Changing Themes
Step 18. Continue to add clips,
and perhaps a closing title
similar to the opening title in
step 10. Select Settings on right
mid section to open the Project
Settings to change theme.
Changing theme will change all
titles, special transitions and
even transition sound effects.

33. STEP 19
Final Touches & Saving
Step 19. When you’re finished editing,
tap the back-pointing arrow in the top-
left corner (Project) and you can tap on
the title to edit it. The play button lets
you watch the movie full-screen, and
tapping the clapper board takes you
back into editing mode. Click on File
then Share to share your creation. If you
want to have the movie in your
computer, tap File video and then
choose the highest quality (usually
1080p).

34. VIDEO PROJECTS FOR THE CLASSROOM
WEB TOOLS & IOS APPS FOR VIDEO
CURRICULUM
INTRO TO MOVIE MAKING IMOVIE
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
COMING UP NEXT!

35. THANK YOU!

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M A R T I N
R I C A R D O
C I S N E R O S
A C A D E M I C T EC H N O LO GY S P EC I A L I S T
E: mcisneros@sccoe.org
Web: sccoe.org/edtech
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