Wednesday 17 October 2012

Dvolver the moviemaker

What excites you more? Writing a dialogue on a plain paper or writing it on a website where you can choose your own backgrounds, places and moving characters? I bet the latter is your choice. This is all made possible in, an interactive website suitable for all (students and adults) to express ideas through dialogues and making it into movies. Only by following the steps, you could be a producer of your own.


How it operates?

There are several steps that you need to follow. It’s so easy that you just have to click the button ‘next’. 


  • The first step gives you several choices on what backgrounds and skies do you want for the video. It depends on your creativity on how to mix and match these two. 
  • Then, you can proceed to choosing a plot related with characters’ movement. Four choices are given; rendezvous, pick up, chase and soliloquy. Some words are difficult? Don’t worry. There are also visuals of what the words portray and it really helps the process. 





  • Next, you can now choose characters of your interest. The characters, all with their own look, are given their characteristics, likings and ages. Choose what you like. 
  • You can now proceed to inserting dialogues. There is a limit on 100 words per line (which is very long!) and you can easily add new scene to your movie! 
  • To make it more interesting, why don’t you put a background song to your movie? There are up to 15 songs that you can choose and it depends on how it suits with your situations.
  • All is ready and what more other than choosing your title design, movie title and director’s name (which is you!). It is your creativity to decide which design and what title that you think would be attention-grabbing.
  • Finally, you can preview your movie and adjust it (if you want to) and send it to anyone you wish.     

Here is the sample of moviemaker that I made. 



  
How can teacher use it?

Write creative writing

This website can be a platform for students to show their creativity in creating dialogue and choosing a suitable background for it. But beware, as a teacher, you need to give guidelines on how to use this application. You wouldn’t want any particular topics (the inappropriate one!) to be discussed right? So, teachers could give students some topics that are interesting, contextualised and appropriate so that they know what to write and plus it is perhaps one of their experiences in life. You can also check the works by asking them to send their final piece to your email.  

What do I say about this website?

Thumbs up points :)

1) Students can practice language for real-life purpose (conversation).
2) Enhance creativity.
3) Interesting tools (graphics, colours, movement).
4) Fun and enjoyable.
5) Students can learn from visuals.
6) Easy and user-friendly.
7) Ownership (students have their own piece of work that they can proud of!).
8) Attract introvert students.
9) Contextualised learning.

Thumbs down point :(
1) Characters might be too exposing (not suitable for young children).
2) Limited of characters’ movements.
3) Unsure about the correctness of dialogue. 
4) The most prominent issue-must have internet connection!

I hope you use it and ENJOY!

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