Dear Secondary One students
Have you ever watched videos on YouTube or vlogs and wish you can create instructional content like those YouTubers and Vloggers? This is the golden opportunity to learn how to do that now!
Let's take a look at some examples of them on YouTube:
For the remaining weeks of Term 2, time is made available for you to self-learn a few very useful tools and apps. In this tutorial, you'll be learning about:
iMovie
Instructions for Students:
You are required to:
1) Watch the steps in the video tutorials below to learn how to create an instructional video
2) Use iMovie to try creating a video
We invite all students to try using iMovie to create an instructional video and submit it to your teacher!
Let's now check out the steps to create a video using iMovie!
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16.1 iMovie: Screen-Recording Button
Adding screen-recording button to Control Centre (Certain types of videos you want to create may require screen-recording)
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16.2 iMovie: Creating a Video from the Start
Creating a video from iMovie
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16.3 iMovie: Adding Title Text
Adding text to the title of the video
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16.4 iMovie: Importing and Making Arrangement of Assets
Importing assets (Assets are components and content materials within the video, e.g. images and videos)
Arranging the assets
IMPORTANT
Often, video creators for such instructional videos will record a raw video on their device first, then load it on iMovie to edit. You should do the same:
A) On your iPad, record a video
B) Load the video onto iMovie by following the steps in this video
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16.5 iMovie: Splitting the Video
Splitting the video
(Why split a video? The reason is to use it to 'break' the video sequence so that you may cut out unwanted parts, or add effects at some parts of the video)
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16.6 iMovie: Adding Captions
Adding captions (or some call them subtitles)
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16.7 iMovie: Adding Transitions
Adding transitions
(Transitions are effects from one asset or frame to another, the way one scene moves to the next after having an 'effect')
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16.8 iMovie: Audio Assets and Recording
Adding sound and voice-recording
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16.9 iMovie: Speed and Filter
Editing and changing the speed
Adding filters
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16.10 iMovie: A full example of a video created
(Pay attention to all the transitions and effects that are shown in the video. They are to provide you with examples so as to generate ideas about the video you are planning to create.
Remember that the topic you are creating should be about a tutorial video to teach someone something useful and good. So don't stray from the intended objective.
Be creative!)