Become Your Own Course Movie Mogul

Primary Presenter: Kent Homchick

Co-Presenter: Zoryana Murovych

Organization: University of Colorado Denver

Role: Associate Professor

Track: Demonstration with some hands-on

Level: For Mere Mortals

Abstract: Our presentation will demonstrate the use of a cross-platform, movie and audio editing program titled Camtasia, for purposes of creating fully composited and edited movies for course lecture presentation or for training demonstrations. Learn about effective editing techniques and scripting development and execution for delivery of your own video production via smartphones, tablets or over the Internet. Strategies for effective design and preparation of media in your movie will be covered.

Bio: Homchick has made multiple presentations at COLTT over the years. He was one of the very first faculty at UC Denver to create an online course, and have been teaching online ever since. At UC Denver, he designed, launched and was Program Director of the Multimedia Studies Program at the College of Arts and Media, thus giving me a diverse background in multimedia technologies for classroom and online course delivery. Homchick has, at the request of the college, given workshops on online course development and distribution to the faculty at the College of Arts and Media, UC Denver.

Description: This presentation will demonstrate the use of a cross-platform, movie and audio editing program titled Camtasia, for purposes of creating fully composited and edited movies for course lecture presentation or for training demonstration. This low cost, entry level screen capture and editing program allows one to easily integrate audio, video, text, imagery, graphics animations, flash media, and live video into a digital file for delivery on smart phones, tablets or over the Internet. Movie editing techniques will be discussed. Participants will come to understand the workflow of taking course content and seeing how it may be presented in an effective visual format in ways that can best illuminate the subject matter being discussed. The presenter assumes that participants will have a basic grasp of digital graphics, images, audio and video, though the novice will be able to come away from the presentation with an understanding of how to put tighter a simple, fully edited movie. Subjects to be covered:

-Editing Techniques for video and audio

-Preparing digital files for use in video editing programs 

-Methods for integrating and distributing finished media though a variety of digital formats, including smart phones

-Strategies for taking current course materials and designing a logical and effective video presentation

-How to film yourself and integrate your "talking head" in to your own video

-Adding voice narration and/or audio sound effects/music to your video.