let’s make a whiteboard animation!
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Let’s Make a Whiteboard Animation!
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Materials
• whiteboard
• markers
• eraser or wiping cloth
• Macbook with iMovie
• Storyboard plan and script
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Set Up
• Place Macbook approximately 2-3 ft away from whiteboard with screen facing the whiteboard.
• Activate iMovie.
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• Open iMovie in your Application folder. Select File>New Event.
• Save event as “Whiteboard”.
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• Keep the event highlighted and select File>New Project.
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• Choose “No Theme”.
• Enter hour_username_whiteboard in the name box.
• Click Create in the lower right hand corner.
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Record Images
• Choose the camera icon on the left.
• A camera screen will open like in Photo Booth.
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• Draw a frame on the whiteboard to frame in what shows on Camera screen.
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• Click capture to begin recording.
• Draw the object you want your audience to see.
• Click stop when you are finished drawing.
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• Clips will appear in the event space of iMovie.
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• You can do this in short bits or one long one and edit it later.
• If you have long periods of no drawing it will be best to stop recording and restart.
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Remove Audio• Select a clip in the
iMovie events box.
• Drag entire clip into the project space.
•Repeat the process for each clip.
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• Select each clip and Clip>Detach Audio.
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• Delete all the purple audio clips.
• To delete the clips, highlight them and hit the delete.
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Speed Up Drawings
• Select clip, or portion of the clip, that you want to speed up.
• Next, Clip>FastForward>Select speed.
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• Try 8x first. Say YES to optimizing question,
• You can adjust the speed later if necessary.
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• Be ready with your Script.
• Click on Microphone icon to record a voiceover.
Voiceover
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• Then click on the spot on your project clip to begin the voiceover.
• Recording instantly begins after you click on the clip after a 3, 2, 1 countdown.
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