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Newscast
Creating Student Newscasts

I. Examples
    A. Video -  Central Morning News
          Script - Central High School Script
    B. Highland Elementary Tuesday Newsday - Video
    C. Crossroads Public Service Announcements - Video

II. Digital Camera
    A. Plan your story
    B. Write a script
    C. Think about camera angles
    D. Shoot video
    E. Eliminate unwanted background noise before filming

III. iMovie
    A. Import video - move button to camera if it doesn't move automatically
       1. From digital video camera
       2. From video clips - .mov and .dv
    B. Edit video - move button to scissors
       1. Cut - removes the yellow part
       2. Crop - removes the blue part
       3. Split at playhead
    C. Drag video to clip tray
    E. Extracting sound
       1. Timeline view
       2. Adding narration
    F. Adding titles
    G. Adding special effects
    H. Exporting - web size

IV. CuePrompter
    A. Copy and paste your script
    B. Set the speed
    C. Read your lines while recording

V. Urban Planet
    A. Upload your video

VI. Green screen and blue screen effects
    A. Superimpose video over video
    B. Green Screen eZescreen -  eZedia.com
    C. Stupendous Software - free blue screen

VII. GarageBand and Audacity
    A. Upload to Urban Planet website

   



April 29, 2008
Video and script