Movies in a minute!
Instructions for making Animoto movies created by Bonnie McCormick
 Create
a storyboard (courtesy of Sandy Noles)
 Decide on what pictures you want.
• Create a word doc to record the copyright info.
 Find
the music – Animoto has a great
collection, or you can import music files.
 Write the text.
 Gather all the elements in a file on your
computer.
 Animoto for Educators
 This account will give you
unlimited video
time.
 It will take a few days to get a confirmation
for this account.
In the meantime…
 You can register, a second time, for a “basic”
account and begin immediately.
 The “basic” account
is only a 30 second
video, but it’s enough to get started and
familiar with the program.
Multi-Media Tools on
RCMS Library webpage
 Infotopia
Images
 MorgueFile
 Flickr @ Creative Commons
 Google Images
 Pics4learning.com
 Open Photo.com
 Gather
all photos to your computer/drive
 Click on Upload button, and the pictures
will load.
 You can load
• photos,
• PPT slides converted to JPG,
• videos.
 Animoto
has a nice collection of copyrightfree music.
 Multi-Media Tools
• Purple Planet Royalty Free Music
• Danosongs.com
• Jamendo
• Freesound Project
 *If
you are going to post your trailer outside
your school’s network, the music must be
copyright free or purchased.
 Click
on the T and type your text.
• Be sure to include credits for the photos.
 Create a PPT slide w/ bibliographies.
 Convert slide to JPG and put at the end of your video.
• The music credit will be included automatically by
Animoto at the end if you use the basic template.
 For other templates, you will have to add a music bibliography
slide.
 You
can rearrange the tiles.
 Click
on Produce Video button.
 Rendering screen.
 You can edit, change anything and
render, again.
 On
your “My Videos” page:
• Click on green “Action” button
• you have several options to share the video
 Ronnie
will set up classes in Animoto
• Law is vague regarding under 13 years-old
• Get parent permission