The site is really easy to use and you just click your way through various screens selecting backgrounds, characters, scenarios, soundtrack and credits. You also type in your own short dialogues. Then when you are ready a single click turns the whole thing into a Flash movie.
You can make short single screen animated movies or longer ones by adding more scenes. You can then email the link to your movie either to yourself or to your students etc.
How do I create movies?
- If you watch this tutorial you can see just how easy it is to make a film.
Tutorial movie (458k flash) - Here’s an example of a film that took about 2 minutes to produce.
Example movie - This link takes you straight to the movie maker page.
Movie maker
You can use it for a number of things:
- To demonstrate language points
Example movie - To give examples of social English
Example movie - To tell jokes
Example movie - I once got my students to create their own movies based around concepts (fear, happiness, boredom, etc) and we had our own miniature animation festival.
- You could try setting up a competition in the school to see who can create the best film.
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