Windows Movie Maker /6-12/Session 1 of 3

Workshop Title

Focusing Questions

How can we import and edit video footage in Windows Movie Maker?

• How can we use Windows Movie Maker to tell a story?

• How can we save a movie project?

Instruction

Framing The Session

How a director chooses to edit clips effects the way the story is told to the viewer. What choices do we make when selecting scenes? Can we take the footage, edit it, and turn it into a story?

This lesson will focus on the following skills:• Importing video into Windows Movie Maker• Editing video clips in Windows Movie Maker• Saving a Windows Movie Maker project

Teaching

What are some of the sources of digital video?• A video camera• Online download (United Streaming, this lesson)• A DVD (and additional software to import movies)

Guided Practice

• Today’s skill will focus on:• importing digital video into Windows Movie

Maker.• editing digital video (trim clips, split clips, and add

clips to the timeline)• saving movie projects

(see the tutorial for lesson 1 for specific directions)

Work Time

Getting Started

Take the next 30 minutes to import video and begin editing your footage. Then we will come back together and share.

Participant Activity• Import video into Windows Movie Maker.• Drag clips into the Timeline and place them in order.• Edit clips using the Crop and Split Clip at Playhead

feature.• Save the Windows Movie Maker project.

Share

Students will share the following aspects of their project:• The process of importing video.• Explain what was edited from your movie and

why it was cut.• What part of this lesson do you feel students in

other classes will need the most help with?

Share

How does this work address the questions that began the session?

• Today we have seen how the choices we make as editors can effect the flow of the story.

• We have learned how to import digital media into Windows Movie Maker.

• We have learned how to edit digital film in Windows Movie Maker.