Video storytelling

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Video and Storytelling Milen Georgiev,Ioana Simeonova South-West university „ Neofit Rilski Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria ALICT 2014, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia 31.08.2014

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Presentation from ALICT summer school n Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, August 31st 2014, sponsored by Slovene Scholarship Fund EEA/NFM

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Video and Storytelling

Milen Georgiev,Ioana Simeonova

South-West university „ Neofit Rilski “ 

Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

ALICT 2014, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

31.08.2014

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One of the most reflecting ways of storytelling is doing it with video. Because of its a combination of pictures, clips, text and music, the audience is understanding and remember the information better.

Main Points

The software im going to present you is VideoPad Editor. The reasons i found it suitable for Video Storytelling are the following:

Its free licensed (there is also paid version of it) Semi – professional Allows you to overlay video and audio tracks Easy environment A lot of effects, options and possibilites

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Video tracks overlay

• Video tracks overlay is interesting, having at least 2 different videos (sequence of images) running in the same time.

• With VideoPad editor u can do this for free

• Here is a visualization of the environment and example of video tracks overlay:

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Items Inclusion

• So first you need to learn how to import objects into the library

1. You click Add file

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Items Inclusion

2. Then The files you included are arranged in 3 categories: Video files, Audio files and Images

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Item Inclusion

3. And then you drag&drop items to the tracks

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Video tracks overlay

• So your “working environment” should now be something like this.And these are the video tracks

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Green Screen

• One of the most helpful effects in the video track overlaying is the green screen.

• The green screen is actually a effect with which you transparent one or more of the colors of image/video.

• With this effect you can “merge” 2 (or more) videos so they will more look like one

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Video effects

• You can access video effects by the following steps: 1. Click on the yellow star in the left bottom corner of the video in the videotrack

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Green Screen Effect

2.Click add effect and then green screen

3. Click Configure the effect, pick a color and adjust foreground and background

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Green Screen Effect

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Credits

• Thank You for your attention

• GO AHEAD AND TRY IT!