Wednesday 1 April 2009

Microsoft Movie Maker and Advertising

Advertising – how to turn a poster into something more exciting!

The children in Class 6T were asked to plan and create their own advert for a sweet. Their work was to be presented in the form of a poster.

In ICT we discussed how we could transfer this into a short movie using images, effects, transitions, titles and sound.

The children had to create 3 pictures based on the information from their poster and then save these as .jpg files.

They opened Microsoft Movie Maker and imported the pictures. These were then transferred to the timeline.

An opening title and an end credit were added. The children looked at the animated effects they could add to these titles and also the options to change the font style and colour.

They also added animated text to the pictures.

They considered whether or not to add a video effect to a frame and also if a video transition would be appropriate between the pictures.

Lastly they recorded a narrative track to accompany the pictures in the movie.

The children spent an extremely enjoyable afternoon creating their advertising movies and they have commented that they now have a greater understanding of how to use Movie Maker and will be able to use this software at home.
Click on the Posters below to run the movies:-

Advert by Chloe









Advert by Georgia


Advert by Joe