Act in your Art

THE CHALLENGE: Use multiple skills by bringing several technologies together to create a story or even a movie in which you create the background and use it as you act out a scene in front of the green screen. 

THE DETAILS:

• PLAN!! This project takes a full plan from beginning to end. Be sure to spend a full day or two just planning the steps needed to complete this project.

• You will need to decide the following:

  • Storyline

  • Background

  • The actors movements

  • Music/Sound FX

• Create a storyline for your movie. Write a Screenplay and Storyboard that includes what the actors movements and lines will be and what the background will look like at those times.

• Create the background you will use with the green screen for your video.

  • Draw your stop motion background

• Now that your background has been created, film the actors acting in front of the green screen as if they were in the background you will add later in editing.

• Import your film into iMovie (check Filmmaking 101 for steps).

• Import your background into iMovie and use the green screen effect to place it behind your actor. The background goes in first and the clips with the actors in it go ON TOP of the green screen.

• Edit your movie to match everything (actor, background, music, sound, titles, transitions, etc.) up the best you can.

• Be sure to add a title screen and credits.

• Export your iMovie or WeVideo and add to your presentation slides.

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