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Circuit board imageMoviemaking - a Multimedia Tour

This is a Year 9 ICT task, but many of the resources are useful for AiDA work. It uses Moviemaker as it's key piece of software.

First the task sheets for this specific task. It might be that you're using

PDF iconThe Multimedia Tour task intro - PowerPoint slides

PDF iconMultimedia Tour task sheet

It's absolutely crucial to produce detailed storyboards before you start to produce a product

Word iconStoryboard - Word version which can be typed straight on to

PDF iconStoryboard - PDF version, for people with no Word...

You might need some help to get the job done. Moviemaking can be tricky. Be particularly careful to save your work regularly - movimaker tends to freeze at the most incoveient times.

PDF iconMoviemaker Help Sheet - all the basics on one side of A4

PDF iconResizing Images Help Sheet - trust me, it's important to resize images

PDF iconTransparent Images - using Fireworks

PDF iconTransparent Images - using Pixlr online

PDF iconMusic for movies - and how to acquire it from the internet.

Useful weblinks:

PixlrExternal link - really nice image editing site, a cut down version of Photoshop

AudacityExternal link - for creating and editing sound files

ZamzarExternal link - for file conversion