Making a Thriller Opening with Windows

Movie Maker

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Insert videos and photos by clicking here and selecting them from your folder

All the inserted clips will then appear here and you can delete any that you don’t want

The video clips can be altered in a number of different ways. The volume of any video sound can be changed to either make it more or less prominent. If you are putting music or sound effects over a clip it is best to mute it. The sounds on the video (if kept) can be faded in or faded out in order to create a desire affect or mood.

The speed of the video clip can be altered in order to make it appear faster or slower than it was initially filmed.

The split tool will split the clip into two so that each part can be edited in different ways.

For information on the trim tool, see the next slide.

The trim tool allows you to keep some of the clip but not other parts. You can do this by either just entering the time you want to clip to start and/or and at, or you can use the trim tool and do it manually.

Ensure you save the trim before going back to edit the rest of your piece.

Select the point at which you want to add certain music or a certain sound effect and slected the ‘add music at current point option’ before selecting the correct file from your documents

The sound will appear underneath the clips. You can usually see where the different sounds are judging by the sound bars

Various visual effects such as black and white or blurred can be used to create certain moods or foreshadow future events

The brightness can be altered in order to making certain features of a frame more / less easier to see

Different transition animations can be used to change the way the previous image becomes the current image, or the currant image becomes the next image.

Pan and zoom animations determine how the picture moves during it’s time on the screen (pans to the left, turns around, zoom into the centre). Zooming into / onto certain things will change the focus point and perspective of the frame, which can increase suspense.

The duration of the animations can be changed here

The volume of the music can be changed here to make it stand out over the sound of the clip or just to make it generally more prominent. If the music or sound is changing to or from another, a fade in/out can be used in order to make it all flow a bit better

The section of music used can be changed by either entering the start and end time required for the section, or just clicking either set start or set end point when the correct point in the music is selected.

The split tool splits the music / sound into two sections which can both be edited and used differently

Click on here to record a narration, more information on this tool will be on a following slide.

You can insert text to a certain frame by selecting the title feature.

The colour, font, size, alignment etc. can all be changed here in a similar way to on Microsoft Word or PowerPoint

The start time of the text in the clip can be entered here in order to change it’s position in the piece, otherwise it can just be manually dragged along. The duration the text is on screen for can be altered here so the audience has ample time to read what it says.

The movement of the text on the screen (move to the left, zoom in/out etc.) can be changed here

Record or cancel adding a narration here

When you have recorded your narration you will have to save it into a folder in your documents

Your narration clips can be inserted under the correct clips and will appear like this

In the ‘Project’ section you can select which part of a frame you want to be most obvious, the narration, the video or the music

As pretty much all modern day TV screens operate in wide screen it is best to select this 16:9 option for the project

If you prefer, all the sounds in the piece can be shown by their title as opposed to sound waves, by clicking the waveform button in the ‘view section’

As you go along make sure you keep saving the project so you don’t lose any of your work

When you have fully completed the project, go to ‘save movie’ and save is as ‘recommended for this project’