Assignment Photo-Story
Photo-stories are a great new way for students to use digital technology to communicate their ideas creatively and effectively. This website gives you a tutorial on how to dit yourself.
Although they’re simple to make, photo-movies look great and offer young people a powerful means for getting their messages across. Since photo-movies are made with still images from a digital camera, scanner or free online photo-library, they can be created by anyone, for virtually nothing.
There are opportunities for making photo-movies right across the curriculum, where they can be used as a novel alternative to conventional written work. They are also a very powerful tool for teaching many of the communication topics covered in the Speaking & Listening, English, Citizenship and PSHE curricula.
To get started, just choose ’start activity’. This mini website contains tutorials on every aspect of production, from scriptwriting and assembling the images to putting on special effects, recording the narration and laying down a music track. Download the Teacher’s Notes for suggestions how to set up a photo-movie project.
The videos which make up Assignment: Photo-movie are presented in Flash 8, which you can download for free from the ‘Welcome’ page, and can be watched online via a 2Mb broadband connection. Alternatively you can watch or download the videos in Windows Media format from the ‘Downloads’ page.