Video Creation for School Use

Mason McDaniel

Topics

• Setting Up a News Studio• Using MovieMaker with students• Green Screen with Gimp• Green Screen with Adobe Premiere Elements• Green Screen with Wax (Freeware)• Download sample files• How to get stock footage for backdrops• Play time!!!

The “WPYP” News Studio

Our Student Created News Show

• Student created• Students are aided in

selction of content• Read scripts• Pull weather slides of

the internet• Student Produced

We do a daily weather show

In the newsroom• We have a digital effects board that will do a

chormakey effect

Clubs

• Done for each grade level once a week (K-5)• This gives us an opportunity to work with

small groups of students to begin to teach them video taping techniques

• Typically work with 4th and 5th grades

Movie Maker

• Great for editing individual student videos with students

• Place videos in the shared directory that they have access to

• Students are limited to 75 megs, so videos must be kept short.

• No Green Screen ABILITY

Great for simple project such as…

To create a green screen

• Invest in a light green or blue paint, poster board, or cloth.

• You need a solid color surface with no wrinkles.

• Felt or cloth can work great• The cost of the Green screen at front is $9.00

Green Screen Programs

• I typically use Sony Vegas (around $400- I use an old version)- not on the approved list

• IMovie- probably the easiest but you must have a mac

• With students we have used Adobe Premiere Elements ($99)- relatively easy but robust machines are required

• I have been experimenting with Wax 2.0 (free)- not on the approved list

Vegas

• If you use go to YouTube/ Teacher Tube for tutorials on use

Premiere Elements

• Great tool for simple movies. Older versions are cheaper.

• Simple to do a green screen video. • Configuration not as easy as Vegas

Wax 2.0

• Free- Typically the lease usable• You must have a converter/ the right kind of

video• Use AVI files

Getting working video types

• Capture with the particular program/ camera

Stock Footage (pictures and video)

• Stock Footage for Free.com• Royalty Free• Archive.org• Collection

Music

• Free Play Music• Royalty Free Music• Other Sources

Real Player

• http://www.real.com• Great for video downloads from the net• New version will convert to most common

formats (Mac/ Windows/ Linux)

Gimp

• www.gimp.org/downloads/ • Can be used to edit pictures and great for

greenscreening in backgrounds

• Once you have your photos, open one in your favorite editing program (GIMP, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, etc.). Create a new blank layer and set it as the background layer. Go to the photo layer, select the greenscreen background using the magic wand, and delete the green area. What remains should be your model against a blank background. If you wish, you can even insert another background in a new layer below the model layer, for example a SL landscape shot.

• http://www.beatenetworks.com/blog/index.php?/archives/99-Gimp-Use-Greenscreen-Backgrounds.html

Recommended Video Players/ Converters

• VLC (Video LAN)• Ace Mega Codec Pack• Real Player• E.M. Total Video Converter

Uses for Green Screen

• Weather• Promotion of events• Content for the news• Student Interest Pieces

Exercise Video

Dance Instruction Videos