Michelle M. Pillow. She’ll be talking with us about how to make a book video!
How to Make a very Basic Movie:
1.Gather the stock photography/graphic images you want to use to illustrate your story. Since you’re advertising a book, these need to be copyright free, stock photos/graphics or photos/graphics that you have permission to use. It might help to read over your blurb and get a basic idea of what you want your movie to say, including the overall feel and tone the images should portray. Make sure the graphics are cropped, edited and ready to use in your movie. You don’t need to worry about putting text directly on these pictures unless you want the wording integrated into the picture itself.
Here are just a few of the places you can buy royalty free stock photos:
Big Stock Photo
Free Stock Photo
Shutter Stock
Fotolia
photos.com
2. As you work in Movie Maker, make sure you choose ‘File’, ‘Save Project’ (or save after the first time) to back up your movie after or during each step.
3. Assuming you have Movie Maker already installed on your computer, you’ll need to open the program up. Along the left column, under ‘1. Capture Video’, you’ll need to click on ‘Import Pictures’. Select all the photos you’ve gathered for your video. When you’ve finished, you’ll see the pictures in your Collection on the main screen.
4. Along the bottom, you have two view choices. Either ‘Timeline’ view or ‘Storyboard‘ view. You’ll want to be in ‘Storyboard’ view (the option along the bottom will say ‘Show Timeline’). Drag and drop your images onto the big squares in the storyboard along the bottom in the order you’d like them to show up in the movie (ignore the smaller squares in-between for now). If you click the play button in the movie window on the right side of the screen, you’ll see the plain still images play out without any fancy effects. At any time you wish to come back to your images, go to Option ‘2. Edit Video’ along the left column and click ‘Show Collections’.
5. To add movement to your pictures, go to option ‘2. Edit Video’ in the left column. Click on ‘View Video Effects’. The center screen will now have the different effects installed in your program listed. To make an image along the bottom have a movie effect, drag and drop the effect you want onto the picture in the storyboard. Effects can be combined to create even a wider variety or doubled up to make the effect more prominent—such as using the ‘Ease In’ option three times instead of once. When you’re done, if you click play you’ll now see the look of the effects you’ve added to your movie. If you dislike what you’ve done, simply right click on the storyboard picture you want to change and choose ‘Video Effects’. A popup box will allow you to see what effects you have listed. Note: Movie Maker comes with basic effects installed. Other effects must be purchased and installed separately, so you might not be able to do all the fancy tricks and zoom/pan techniques you see in other videos.
6. To add movement to your pictures, go back to option ‘2. Edit Video’ in the left column. Click on ‘View Video Transitions’. The center screen will now have the different transitions listed. Transitions are the way one picture fades or moves into another. Drag and drop different transitions into the small squares between your photo stills. To replace a transition, simply drag and drop another on top of it. The old transaction will be replaced with your new one. Click play to watch how your video is coming together. Once you’re satisfied with the layout, go to the next two steps.
Tomorrow we’ll go over more steps in the process…like how to add text to your project and so very much more! See you then!
