Creative Writing/Photo 9: Welcome Back: The Week of Tues. April 6-9

Hopefully you all had a relaxing and enjoyable break. We have 3weeks left of school and a fair bit of work still to complete.

SORRY PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATES FOR ASSIGNMENTS:

The following assignments are due no later than FRI. APRIL 23 on Flickr, but I would prefer to have skatepark shots, sky shots and photo poem wrapped up by the end of this week

skatepark shots 10 shots = 20 mark
sky shots 5 shots = 10 marks
writing: photo poem = 10 marks Please note: I have taken out the thank-you letter assign
portraits 10 shots = 20 marks
NEW spring shots 5 shots = 10 marks
writing: dialogue (16 lines) = 10 marks
photoshop headswap = 10 marks
Final Slideshow: 30 photos, 10 of which can be from your assignment shots or any good photos you have taken within this year. The other 20 shots are a variety of your choice quality shots.

NEW PHOTO ASSIGNMENT this week SPRING SHOTS: 5 shots = 10 marks. Go outside and look for signs of spring....cherry blossoms, tulips, spring birds, buds on trees, sunshine or pussy willows etc.

SLIDESHOWS WILL BE SHOWN IN CLASS ON Mon Apr. 19 and Tues Apr. 20

Lesson on PhotoStory 3: Unless you have i Movie on your computer, laptop, or phone, or another program you know how to use well, you should be using Photostory 3 program on the school computers to produce your Photo Slideshow.

CHOOSING PHOTOS

Choose a variety of different photos including: macros, landscape, pets, portraits, friend shots, your own choice shots, creative shots etc. Basically anything goes, just provide some variety.
Choose photos that are of high quality and ones that you think are your best photos.
Make sure the photos you choose have been edited, are IN FOCUS, and are well composed.

It really helps if you have all the photos you want to put in your slideshow edited and saved on the computer. MOVING PHOTOS FROM FLICKR TO THE COMPUTER: Go to Flickr, click on your photo, go to the arrow down button, view all sizes and go to the largest size, and then to the top left to download, pick up the photo on your L drive under Downloads and move it to your slideshow folder.

You may want to think about a song that would work well with your photos. It must be in an mp3 format. Your first slide should have your first and last name on it, and should be a photo like a sky shot or a shot that is mostly a background shot.

MOVING PHOTOS INTO PHOTOSTORY

1. You will import your photos into Photostory by opening Photostory and going to Import Photos. Make a point of saving your project every time you go into the program to add photos or edit. Once you save your slideshow, you will find it under My Videos on your L Drive.

2.You will need to go into customize motions to edit the timing and framing of the shots. Each shot should be timed around 3.5-4 seconds in length. Try to keep your start and end positions quite close in size. If it goes from really small to really large, the slideshow will blip the photos or zoom them in and out too fast. You do not want to have your photos scrolling in and out of the frame, the less movement the better.

3. Do not use the music in Photostory (BAD CHOICE) choose from audio files on the m drive or download your own music by going to a You Tube to mp3 downloader.

4. Choose one transition and stick with it, a fade is probably best.

5. Do not use the Photostory Editor and do not over edit your photos.

6. Your working project file is a WP3 file and once you are satisfied with your slideshow you will combine the music and video by clicking next all the way to the end. Your final file name should have your name on it and be a WMV file. lisachasephotostory.wmv You do not need to type in wmv, it will do this automatically when you press next.

7. You will be saving the file to the M drive under your class folder. Make sure your name is on the video file, and it says wmv after your name.

How to use Photostory 3 Video on how to use Photostory 3

See sample slideshows from past years.

Sofia's Video