Overview of Multimedia Narration Project

 

French 331 - Molière, Marivaux, Musset: Interplay of Love, Money and Seduction (Pre-1800)
Professor Nicole Vaget

Instructor Shaoping Moss

 

Model projects:

·   Show the master DVD with three student group projects from the previous course

 

A Storyboard Example

 

Technology involved:

·   Find images from books, VHS tapes, DVDs

·   Capture images with VLC Media Player or iMovie

·   Scan and edit images with Photoshop

·   Record narration with Audacity

·   Edit sound (voice and music) with iMovie

·   Create and edit movie in iMovie

·   Customize movie in iDVD and burn DVDs

 

Steps to accomplish your group projects:

·   Write a script for the movie = a written essay that has to be approved by the professor

·   Prepare a phonetic version of your script = you transcribe it in phonetics symbols, and read it to your professor

·   Scan, capture still images (40 - 50) from books, DVDs and VHS tapes, or download them from the Web

·   Prepare the images in Photoshop (640 x 480, jpeg format)

·   Create a storyboard, matching each of the images with the script on paper

·   Record your script with Audacity

·   Find some background music (Optional)

·   Create a new project in iMovie and import your image and sound files into iMovie

·   Edit the movie in iMovie by adjusting images with your recorded script, adding titles and text, Ken Burns effect or transitions to the images in iMovie (transition and effects should be done last)

·   Add chapters (optional) and create an iDVD project in iMovie

·   Customize your movie in iDVD and burn a DVD

 

Copyright issues: credits and bibliography:

·        Since you have scanned and captured the images from the copyrighted books, DVDs and VHS tapes you should treat them as citied references from books and articles and create a bibliography.

·        The bibliography can be put at the end of the movie as credits, or on paper if it’s too long, and handed in separately from the DVD project.

·        Follow the format in MLA Citation Style in creating your bibliography: http://library.menloschool.org/mla.html

 

 

 

Equipment:

·   External hard drive for storing data

·        One student from a group will check out an external hard drive at the Circulation Desk in the library.

·        The loan period will end on May 10.  (The overdue fine is $ 10 a day.)

 

·   Blank DVD – R disks for burning your project

·        3 Blank DVD – R disks will be distributed to each group at the iDVD workshops.

 

Tech Support:

·        Attend the Photoshop, iMovie, and iDVD workshops listed below

·        Attend LITS Photoshop workshop https://nems.mtholyoke.edu/MasterCalendar2/MasterCalendar.aspx

·        Information Commons for help with scanning and editing images

·        MEWS drop in hours for help with iMovie and iDVD problems from student on duty

·        Come to the office hours offered by Alex Balan (5:00 – 7:00, Tuesday & Thursday)

·        Contact Alex Balan (abalan@MtHolyoke.edu, 413-322-9075) for assistance

·        Contact Shaoping (smoss@mtholyoke.edu, x 3034) for major problems

·        Online guides:

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/ris/training/graphics.shtml

 

Workshop schedule:

·        Workshop for images, 6:30 – 8:30, Wednesday, Feb. 13, MEWS

·        iMovie Workshop, 6:30 – 8:30, Tuesday, March 4, MEWS

·        iDVD Workshop, 6:30 – 8:30, Wednesday, April 16, MEW

 

Presentation schedule:

·        Presentation of final projects on DVD in class, May 6

 

Where to find images on the Web:

·        Google Image Search

http://www.google.com/

·        The ARTstor Digital Library

http://www.artstor.org/info/

·        NYPL Digital Gallery

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

 

 

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Shaoping Moss

Research & Instructional Support, MHC

2/12/08