My virtual christmas card for you all

 Hi All,

I spend some blurry hours this week making a virtual Christmas card to share with you all. It combines hand drawn sketches, a 100 word story that I wrote, some royalty free images and audio tracks.  Watch mine and see how you could make one just like it. Just click on the picture below to be impressed (or not)

Now over to you

1. First you need a story

a 100 word story will make a video of about a minute duration. Write your story, rehearse and then record it on Audacity.

Export it as an MP3 file and remember where you have saved it. I would suggest that you save it in a folder on the desktop.

2. Add some sound effects to the story.

Hunt down some sound effects from the BBC sound library https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

Of click the picture below.

Save the sounds as Mp3 in the same folder as your mp3 story

3. Use Audacity to put the sounds int he right places in your story. Remember to import the audio to add extra tracks then drag them along the timeline to make a believable story. export this again as an MP3 with a new name

4. Use PowerPoint to make some picture slides to illustrate your story. The use the export feature to make a movie that you will use with your mp3 file.

5. Lastly use ShotCut to combine the video file with the audio file to make your own superb video! More on this in our session!

If you can get to part 4 then all is well! - Good luck

Snowtime assistance, more snow tutorials and tasks

 As promised here is the weekly challenge to the session. I have taken the opportunity to make up some PowerPoint for the snowflakes which I hope will help those struggling. I will re-record the first of the tutorial videos shortly since the sound was not up to scratch, click the snow picture to get a helpful tutorial

I attach the other challenges which should not be too much of a stretch once you get the hang of the snow.

Make up an animated Christmas tree card. I have attached some help for this first task. Click here

Advanced

Incorporate up dancing santas, reindeer, and other festive elements into an animated card.

Very advanced

Add some music to your card! 

How to use PowerPoint to make a falling snow image

 Its nearly Christmas time and so falling snow would be a seasonal image to put out there as a virtual Christmas card or similar entry on Facebook or other social media. You can choose your own images, music etc for your version.

I have put together 4 videos to help along the way and will have a tutorial to show everyone too. Click the links to see the videos

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4

Once you have made the video effect and created a single slide with the effect then you can use the File>Export feature to save as a video. Click the picture below to see my efforts!