Creating Your First Photo Story with MS Photo Story 3 Created by Xaras Collins‐Brown Wallingford‐Swarthmore School District Department of Instructional and Informational Technology Spring 2010 What is Digital Storytelling? “Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally.” ‐ Leslie Rule, Center for Digital Storytelling http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html Introduction to Photo Story 3 Why use Photo Story 3? Examples • Have your students create Here are few more short stories and projects using digital photos and text (and very simple) • ThTouch‐up, crop, or rotate your examples for you to browse: pictures • Fun at the Park • Add special effects, sound tracks, or your own voice • A Moment in Time narration • Summer Holiday • Personalize photos with titles • Thank you Grandma and captions • Save to file on computer, CD, From: or Web to share http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/di • Perfect for all grades gitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx Introduction to Photo Story 3 When to use Photo Story 3? Ideas for the Classroom • If you only want create videos • Talking book with still pictures and audio; does • Number book not work with video • Shape book • Biograp hy o f a famous arti st , writ er, • Easy to record narration with cue singer, historical person or building cards • Scientific processes • Need a small file size for easy • Field trip report transport • Favorite sppportsperson • My hero… • Need a small file size for easy • A day in the life of… transport • Local historical landmark • If Windows Movie Maker is too • Advertisement/commercial complicated for your project • An illustrated explanation of a math concept • If Windows Movie Maker slows • A video book report the performance of your • A video portfolio as part of a senior's computer graduation project Begin by Downloading Get started by downloading MS Photo Story 3 for FREE Click Here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsx p/using/digitalphotography/photostor y/default.mspx Before You Begin Your Photo Story • Make sure you have downloaded and organized all your images into a folder on a flash drive. • Name and save your photo story project to the same folder. • This will allow you to work from school and home. Opening Photo Story 3 1. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Photo Story 3 for Windows. 2. On the Welcome page, click Begin a New Story, and then click Next. Importing Your Pictures To Add Pictures: 1. Click Import Pictures. Importing Your Pictures 2. In the File Browser dialog box, locate your P drive or flash didrive. 3. Add all of the pictures listed. Press CTRL key and click on the pictures you want to add more than one at a time. 4. Then click OK. Importing Your Pictures All of your pictures should be present in the filmstrip, as shown. The films tr ip is a great place to make changes to your pictures and story. Arranging Your Pictures 1. Click on the picture you want to move. 2. Drag the picture in the filmstrip to change the sequence. 3. Release in the location you choose. Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures 1. Click on the picture so that it appears in the box. 2. Click Edit to change the appearance of the picture by rotating it, adjusting the color, fixing red eye, or adding effects. 3. You can also right‐click a picture in the filmstrip to perform these actions. 4. Click Save to makes changes to your pictures. Click Reset to restore default settings. Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Rotate Correct Clockwise Red Eye Correct Rotate Click on Edit to add Color Counter special effects to Levels Clockwise your pictures Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Black and White Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Chalk and Charcoal Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Colored Pencil Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Diffuse Glow Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Negative Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Black Outline Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Grey Outline Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Sepia Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Washout Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures Water Color Edit and Add Effects to Your Pictures 1. Click Save to makes changes to your pictures. Click Reset to restore default settings. 2. When you are finished making changes to your pictures, click Next to continue. Adding a Title to Your Pictures 1. On the Add a Title to Your Pictures page, click the first picture, and then type “My First Pho to Story” in the text box to the right of the picture. Adding a Title to Your Pictures 1. Click the Select Font button. 2. In the Font dialog box, under Font Style, click Bold, and then click OK. 3. Click the Align top button to move the title up on the page. 4. When finished adding text to your pictures, click Next. Narrating Your Pictures You can add narration and custom pan and zoom effects to your photo story to make it more unique and personal. To add narration to your story you need to have a working microphone attached to your computer and set up correctly. A wizard will help you set up your microphone to record narration. There is also a text input area to create cue cards which can be a helpful memory aid when narrating your pictures. Narrating Your Pictures 1. On the Narrate Your Pic tures and Customize Motion page, click the Microphone button. This will launch the Sound Hardware Test. Complete the wizard by following the onscreen instructions. Once completed, your microphone should be ready to record. Narrating Your Pictures 2. Click a picture in the films tr ip. 3. Add text from your script in the cue card area. 4. Click the Record Narration Button to start recording. 5. When done, click Stop Recording button. The red dot in the record button will flash indicating recording is taking place. A timer is provided to help you keep track of your narration length. NOTE: NARRATION FOR EACH PICTURE CAN NOT EXCEED 5 MINUTES. Narrating Your Pictures 6. Repeat steps 2 thru 4 for each piticture for which you want to add narration. 7. Once you’ ve added narration, click the first picture in the filmstrip, and then clic k PiPreview to see how your story looks and sounds. 8. Close the preview window, and click Next to continue to the next step. Adding Background Music To Add Pre‐Recorded Music to Your Story: 1. On the Add Background Music page, click the first picture in the filmstrip and then click Select Music. 2. On the File Open dialog box, click My Documents from the left menu. 3. Browse to My Music/Sample Music, click on Beethoven’s Symphony No9.wma, and then click Open. The music you just added is shown as a colored bar above the picture in the filmstrip. This helps you determine which pictures will be shown for each piece of music your add. This helpful when you add more than one song to your story. Adding Background Music To Create Music for Your Story: 1. Click the third picture in the film strip, and then click Create Music. 2. In the Create Music dialog box, in the Genre drop‐down lis t, scroll down and select Soundtrack. 3. In the Style drop‐down list, select Soundtrack: Mysterious Cave. 4. You can leave the default Bands and Moods, or choose different ones. 5. Click Play to hear what the music will sound like. Adding Background Music 6. Click OK to close the Create Music dialog box and save. 7. Click the first picture in the film strip, and click Preview to see how ell your music fits the story. 8. Click Next, to move on to the final steps. You may need to adjust the music volume levels to accommodate your narration. To do this, simply click the picture in the filmstrip and then adjust the music volume using the volume slider bar. Customizing Motion on Your Pictures To Adjust the Motion or Movement of Your Pictures: 1. Select picture you want to change from the filmstrip. 2. On the Narrate Your Pictures and Customize Motion page, click on the Customize Motion button. This is where you can adjust the length of time that a particular picture remains on screen. This is important to remember when syncing your narration to your photo story. Customizing Motion on Your Pictures To Adjust Motion (Pan and Zoom) effect: 3. Check the box to Specify Start and End Position of Motion. 4. Click on Outline Box on your picture and drag to the area where you want the motion to start. Do the same for the end position. If the position is the same chkheck the box. 5. Click Preview to see how your story looks and sounds. Each picture has a time stamp to indicate where the 6. Click Save to keep picture falls on the timeline of your photo story. Use your settings. the arrow buttons to advance to the next picture. Customizing Duration of Your Pictures To Change the Duration of a Picture: 1. Select the Number of Seconds to Disppylay a Picture button. 2. Click on the arrows to adjust your time to match your narration or Use the arrow buttons to background advance to the next picture.