1/2 Credit Course - recommended for students in grades 10, 11 or 12.

The purpose of the course is to provide students with the skills and knowledge to tell stories by combining sound, still images, moving images, text graphics, and animation into a video product. Students will plan, develop, and produce a video project.

Students will be able to:

• Use Windows Movie Maker (or similar program) to:
  • split and trim video clips
  • create and use still images from video clips
  • use a variety of title and credit overlay options available
  • use transitions between clips
  • adjust speed, and other video effects
  • clip and position audio clips and adjust audio levels
  • export video to required formats
• Explore Adobe Premiere (or similar advanced program) and be able to do the things as done in Windows Movie Maker plus some more advanced options like:
  • video clips animating, zooming in/out, panning
  • using coloured mattes
  • changing opacity of mattes, titles and video clips
  • custom title animations
  • additional effects and transitions
  • blue/green screen
• Define the purpose and audience for a video project
• Create a storyboard of the initial plan for the video project
• Capture video and sounds and transfer to a computer project
• Demonstrate video editing skills as needed considering purpose and audience of a final video project.

Students in this course will work independently on this course on their own time. There will be learning resources made available electronically. There will be assignments and tests. The final project will be evaluated by the ICT teacher for ICT skills, and by a teacher in another subject for the content requirements of that class.