Making Movies (PDF)
Hints and Tips for Students

* Successful Movie-making requires careful planning! *

General Tips

• Start with a Storyboard (clips/location/dialogue/action). Could be a Freemind mindmap.
• Maximum final movie length of 3 minutes (apart from titles/credits) except in special circumstances.

Camera Hints/Tips

• Ensure camera is correctly adjusted for infinity, normal use or close ups (macro)
• Zoom = up/down selection buttons.
• Movie mode and review via rotating selector at top.
• For download, set to review.

• Download clips into shared area on T drive (needs to be set up by Ms Cleave in advance).  Allow 15 minutes. Camera must be set to review. Footage left on camera will be wiped.
• Allow 15 minutes at the end to ‘Finish’ the movie (more for a movie longer than 3 minutes). This creates the final ‘.wmv’ movie file.

Moviemaker Tips (avoid dreaded red crosses):

1.    Do all editing in school and from the shared area (T drive), to avoid major technical problems when using Moviemaker.
2.    Any clips/sounds stored in home areas will cause problems with Moviemaker in group work.
3.    Don’t move or rename clips/sounds while editing in MovieMaker (MovieMaker won’t be able to find them).