1. How to Use Window’s Movie Maker A Cursory Look—for more help, ask!

2. Step One Find Window’s Movie Maker and open it It looks like this:

3. Step Two Begin using Movie Maker It looks like this:

4. Step Three Start putting your cool pictures and stuff into the project collection Click here to do this:

5. Step Three Continued You can also just click the handy links labeled: Import pictures Import video Import audio or music See 

6. Step Four Make sure you are in the timeline mode (it’s my fav.) Click here to change views/modes

7. Step Five Start dragging your media to the storyboard to create your movie

8. Step Six Continue overlaying media Drag pics and arrange Drag video and arrange Drag in drop is where it’s at! Timeline in Progress

9. Adding Text or Titles Would you like words with your images?

10. Step One Click on “Make Titles or Credits”

11. Step Two Click on the option that you want (I’m going to trust you can read on this step )

12. Step Three Type up the words you want and play around with it All sorts of fun options 

13. Step Four Click “Done, add title to movie”

14. Step Five Play around with length of title and placement Here, or here One goes on top of your pics and one in the middle of your pics

15. Getting Fancy Slide transitions

16. What they are Slide transitions are ways of going from one picture to the next. They can add shape or dimension to a picture You’ve used them in PowerPoint I’m sure

17. Be Careful The awesome video we watched on Wed (4/6) did not use transitioning too often Transitions can get old fast or be too much They can take away from the power of your words or images

18. This is the only picture slide for this section  Take a look at that task list you’ve been using Check out the circled area and follow directions Hey, you’re fancy now, you don’t need detailed instructions 

19. Don’t Be Afraid to Get Super-Fancy There are lots more items you can play with Editing clip length Fooling around with animation Playing with the timing of your words and images Wow me and teach me something!

20. Saving It is imperative to save the movie the right way or you will be very upset

21. Why this is important Your pics, vids, etc. are only on YOUR computer. If you don’t save correctly, you will not be saving the whole movie…it is upsetting when this happens…trust me 

22. Step One Be sure to click on save to my computer Be sure to follow all directions (pretty easy) IMPORTANT: When you save, it needs to be saved on your H drive!

23. Step Two Upload to the wiki You can put the file on the wiki You can create a plug-in You can do some other fancy thing that I don’t know about!

24. I hope you enjoyed the experience! I can’t wait to see your movies 