Movie Making
Videos are such a fantastic tool for both students and teachers. They bring learning to life with cool visuals and sound, making it easier to understand tricky topics and catering to different ways of learning. For students, videos can make learning more fun and memorable. For teachers, they save time, boost student interest, and make it easier to adapt lessons to everyone’s needs.
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| Screencasting | Green Screening | Show What You Know | Mobile Apps | Online/Desktop Apps | Closed Captioning | Resources |
Below are some visuals/printables exploring more about movie-making in the classroom, including the steps and tips for great video creation. Click on the link below to access these and print them.
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Greenscreen
A green screen, ais a background colour used in video production to replace the green colour with another image or video footage. This creates the illusion of characters being placed in different environments or interacting with elements that are not truly present.
Below is a list of the screencasting apps approved for use in SD71. For more information on screencasting, click on the link provided.
DoInk
Create incredible green-screen videos and images right on the iPad.
iMovie
Create and edit movies, trailers, and music videos on a Mac or iPad.
Canva
Create professional-looking designs, including ones with green screens.
Screencasting/Screen Recording
Screencasting refers to the process of recording a computer screen, including all windows, applications, and movements and turning it into a video file for playback or editing. It is used to produce tutorials, presentations, videos, and gameplay. There are tools to customize the recording, such as selecting specific windows to record, adding annotations, and inserting additional media.
Below is a list of the screencasting apps approved for use in SD71. For more information on screencasting, click on the link provided.
Canva
Record yourself AND a screen share on the camera.
Teams
Record right in Teams. Send a link to share it.
PowerPoint
Record audio, screen record your presentation or capture screen in another app.
Apple Device
Screen record on your mobile devices.
Show What You Know
The phrase “show what you know” allows student to demonstrate their knowledge or skills in a particular area. Offering choice and multiple means of expression makes learning more accessible. There are a number of a number of apps that allow students to do this.
See the list below. For more information, click on the link provided.
Chatterpix
Chatterpix is an app that allows users to create animated videos using photos.
Clips
Create and edit short videos, add music, effects, and text to short videos.
Book Creator
Design and publish books using templates and various formatting options.
Stop Motion
Create stop motion animations on an iPad.
Movie Making Mobile Device Apps
There are many great mobile device applications that allow users to create a full movie or video, adding titles, text, images, videos, audio, and even voiceovers. See the list below for the apps that are supported to do this by SD71.
Click on the Play Icon to watch a video about the app. Click on the Information Icon to learn how to use the app.
iMovie
Create and edit movies, trailers, and music videos on the iPad.
Flip (Flipgrid)
Record, edit, and share video assignments on a mobile device.
Movie Making Desktop or Online Programs
Although numerous paid video editing programs are available for computers, there are a few that are free and still functional. More and more online options are being made available for educational use. See the list below for the apps that SD71 supports for this.
Click on the icon for a link to the web version of the application, on the Play Icon to watch a video about the program, and on the Information Icon to learn how to use the program.
Canva
Create digtital content online including videos.
Movie Maker
Create, edit, and share videos using Windows 10.
Adobe Express
Creating creative content, including videos online.
PowerPoint
Create presentations that can be shared as a video.
Closed Captioning
Movie making in the classroom facilitates inclusion by providing a multimodal approach to learning, where students can express themselves through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic means.
This method promotes accessibility by allowing students to create films that incorporate features like closed captions, audio descriptions, and alternative formats to accommodate diverse learning styles and needs.
Below is a list of video editing applications that naturally incorporate closed captioning creation through the creation process.
Additionally the link to a set of instructions on how to use the closed captioning functionality in YouTube is directly below. This is an alternative if closed captioning is not created in the native editing program.
PowerPoint
Turn on under Slide Show, Always use Subtitles
Clips
Show captions as Live Titles
Flip
Edit and update Captions
Book Creator
Select video, add cations i – inspector.
Stream
Add a transcript, generate automatically and choose language.
