Name  ______________________________  Date _____________  Per  ______

Why use animation?

• Animation can be used to integrate technology into virtually any of the core curricular activities.
• It is provides a great opportunity for teachers to assess of a given objective addressed through a creation of a digital animation
• Most importantly, animation is motivating and fun for students!

Materials:

Tools and Props: crafts (construction paper, glue, scissors), legos, doll house etc.

Technology:  digital camera, tripod, Microsoft movie maker or power point and internet access

Other:  Library books, magazines, other reference books

How to get started?

• Introduce animation
• Groups of 3 to 4 people

Tips for Photo Shoot

• Use masking tape to mark the tripod so it does not move when taking pictures.
• Move your characters about ¼ inch between pictures.
• The more photos you take the smoother your video will be.

Step by Step Movie Maker:

1. Open windows movie maker.
2. Under capture video, select import pictures         

  3.  Navigate to your folder and open.  Click on the first picture, hold down your shift key and click on your last picture.  Now, all your pictures should be selected.

4. Click import.  Your pictures will then show up in collections portion of your screen. 

5. Now, click tools, options, advanced tab.  Change the picture duration to 0.25 seconds.  Change the transition duration to 0.25 seconds.  Click ok.

6. Click on the fist picture, hold down your shift key and click on your last picture.  When all pictures are selected, click and drag them to the storyboard below.

7. Now, you will make the title of your movie.  To do this go under Edit movie click make titles or credits.  Click add title at the beginning of the movie.  Type the title of the movie in the area provided.
8. Scrolling down you will find the following options.  Change the title animation and change the text font and color.  Click done, add title to movie.
9. Now, let’s add the credits to your movie.  Click add credits to the end of your movie.  Enter the credits for your animation project, then click done add title to movie.
10. To add sound or music, under capture video, select import audio or music.

11. Navigate to the folder where your file is saved and click open.  Click import.  Your audio file will show up in the collections portion of your screen.  Next, drag the audio file from the collections and drop it into the collections below.

12. Once your have finished, with your animation movie, you need to save it as a movie file.  Click file, save movie file.  Leave it selected at Best quality for playback on my computer.