Graphic Design Spring 2014

You live in Seward, Alaska.  This is a small, isolated town nestled between big mountains and the bay.  The good in this town is a tight knit community in a beautiful setting.  Perhaps some of the negative aspects about living in Seward is a lack of things to do, compared to living in a larger city.

As a teenager, what sort of activities would you like to have available to you to do in Seward?  What sort of places would you like to go to?

 Suggestions:

Live Music

Movie Theatre

Ice rink

Pool – billiards

Bowling Alley

Ski Resort

Events: Festivals/ Competitions

Better/more variety of Jobs

This is your assignment:

Produce a short video presentation that portrays the teenage perspective on the following questions:

• What do you like best about living in Seward/Moose Pass?
• When you think of community improvements, what does our community need to make it better for the next generation?
• What would make you want to live here as an adult?  What makes our community attractive to young people?

-Must be “G “rated suitable for all audiences.

-Complete by May 1, 2014

Step 1:

Formulate your Opinion in Writing

Write a short essay answering these questions:

• What do you like best about living in Seward/Moose Pass?
• When you think of community improvements, what does our community need to make it better for the next generation?
• What would make you want to live here as an adult?  What makes our community attractive to young people?

Use complete sentences, correct grammar, etc.  Post it on your blog

Step 2:

Illustrate your ideas

This is a movie so it needs visuals.  You could illustrate your ideas with:

Photographs that you take (copyright)

Your photos edited with photoshop (draw in the things that you want in Seward 🙂 )

Drawings – draw on paper, a tablet or the smart board

Film

*If you dont have a camera the library has some that you could check out.

Please take photos/videotape after school.  Drawing might be the easiest option because you can do it at school!

Step 3:

Make your movie!

How to Make the Movie!

Now that you have your images to create your movie, you need to use Windows Movie Maker to make them into a little movie.  Here’s how you do it:

1. Open Windows Movie Maker under programs.

2. Under Capture Video, click Import Pictures and select all of your images.

3. Select your pictures from the collections board and drag them down to the storyboard at the bottom, one by one, in whichever orer makes sense.

4. Record the Audio Track.  Record yourself reading your essay or speaking on the same themes as your essay.  The library has microphones to plug into the computer.

5. Go to Edit Movie -> Make titles or Credits.   Create a Title Slide with the Title of the animation.  Create Credits at the end:

Created by ______________

Seward High School

Seward, Alaska

2014

Music: This Song by This Person

6. Add music in some parts!  Use this website: http://freeplaymusic.com/.  This music is not copyrighted and the site is easy to search!

Once you have the audio file in the Collections area, click Show Timeline on the bottom, and then drag that audio file down into your movie.  You can now move it to determine when the sound starts, ends, etc.

7. Tweak with everything until your message is clear, everything flows well, and there are no glitches!

8. Finish your movie!  Once everything is perfect, you need to save your movie as a Windows Media Player file so that anyone can watch it.  Under Finish Movie, click Save to my Computer.  Choose to save your movie inthe L drive, under your e number.  This is because your movie is a big file that takes up a lot of space.  Name your movie with the file name, but don’t include any spaces in the title, for example, save it as kittydream, not Kitty Dream.  Click Next, and under Movie Setting, Other settings, choose Video for broadband (512 Kbps).  Click Next again, now your movie is saving as a WMM file, this should take a minute or so.

10. Post your movie!  On your blog, click Plugins ->Embedded Video -> Activate.  Then in a new post, click on the little TV symbol.  Choose the tab that says upload video.  Find your video in the L drive, and upload it.  Click  the box that says Show video without link.  Save your post and preview it to make sure your video plays!

11. Under your movie, write about your experience in making your first animation and Windows Movie Maker.  What did you learn?  What did you like? What didn’t you like?

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