Photo Story Project

The subject of the story should be something that you feel emotionally charged about or have a definite personal interest in exploring. Today’s news media provide an endless stream of visual topics for students to choose from. Your lives are affected by a wide range of issues such as global warming, war, and disease—issues you have no control over but do feel strongly about, whether you feel an emotional connection to them, are intellectually interested or both.

Project Requirements

· Title slide with name and class period

· Minimum of 10 picture slides (use the T drive, student shared drive)

· Text and Narration on each picture

· Background music

· effects, motion, transitions

· Bibliography/Credits slide is last (can use also do this in Paint)

Directions

1. Open Photo Story. Click Start / Programs / Photo Story.

2. On the Welcome screen, click BEGIN A NEW STORY, and then NEXT.

3. Add pictures. (use clusty.com and pics4learning.com)

· Click IMPORT PICTURES.

· Browse to your pictures, My Media folder.

· Add pictures. To add more than one picture at a time, press and hold the CTRL key and click the pictures.

· Click OK. The pictures will show up in the filmstrip.

· Re-order the pictures by dragging to the appropriate place.

· Click NEXT.

4. Add a title.

· Type the title.

· Choose the font and alignment.

· You can add titles to any or all slides. Click on the slide to select it.

5. Add Effects

· Under the picture is an EFFECTS drop down. Choose any special effects desired for each picture.

· Click NEXT.

6. Add Narration

· Click on the Microphone button. This will launch the Sound Hardware Test Wizard. Follow the onscreen instructions.

· Click the picture you want to narrate. (slide 1)

· Click RECORD NARRATION button to start recording. Click STOP when finished.

· Repeat for each slide that you want to narrate. (Optional)

· Click NEXT.


7. Add Background Music

To Add Pre-Recorded Music – www.freeplaymusic.com

· Click SELECT MUSIC.

· Browse to your music file, My Media folder. (Must be wma, mp3, or wav)

· The music will appear as a colored bar above your filmstrip. If using more than one clip, you can see how long each clip will be and for which picture it will play. Click NEXT.

To Create Music

· Click CREATE MUSIC.

· Choose desired options and then PLAY to hear sample.

· Click NEXT.

8. Save Photo Story

· On the Save Your Story window, click SAVE YOUR STORY FOR PLAYBACK ON YOUR COMPUTER.

· Click BROWSE and find your U drive.

· Name and Save your story.

· Click NEXT.

9. View Photo Story

10. Exit

· When you exit Photo Story, you will be asked if you want to the save the PROJECT file.

· Important Note: When working with multimedia software, you almost always have 2 files. The PROJECT file and the FINISHED Presentation file.

File Extensions: PhotoStory Project .wp3
(can still be edited)

PhotoStory Final Presentation
(saved for playback on computer) .wmv

· Save both files so that you can compare the file sizes.

- When finished, copy and paste into the T-drive, completed work folder

- When finished, check out Movie Maker!

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