G4 Multimodal Poetry

"students have a deeper conceptual understanding of a lesson when teachers pair lectures with diagrams. And a review spanning three decades of research found that students retain more information when textbooks contain illustrations because the images complement the text. When students use more than one medium to process a lesson, learning is more deeply encoded—and being overly reliant on a perceived dominant learning style [eg aural/listening or reading only] is a recipe for learning less effectively."

TL;DR here's what you need to know:

" ...there was a highly significant main effect of condition with those in the visual condition retaining twice as much information as those in the auditory condition regardless of learning style, a result that strongly supports dual coding theory. Implications of the findings would suggest that learning styles instruction is an ineffective method for teachers to employ, and that, instead, incorporating principles of dual coding would have a much greater benefit to student learning."

You can disable the Ken Buns effect that makes still images move, in iMovie preferences > Photo Placement, choose Fit from the drop-down menu.

Great examples showing the same shots viewed and edited in different ways with a few short examples.

• Choose the best camera angles for each moment

• Use more close-ups and medium shots than wide shots.

• Cut on words/action

• Edit out mistakes