First Encounter with Windows Movie Maker

It is my first time to use the Movie Maker in my whole life. I don't have any clue how to use it. I just click here and there like I know what I'm clicking. I was very amazed by what it does and what I see in the so called 'Preview Monitor'. I was also impressed by the effects. I realized that it is so hard to make movies like the ones we watch on cinemas and on televisions. You need perseverance and patience to make it wonderful and fantastic.

"You may encounter many defeats,

but you must not be defeated.

In fact,

it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,

so you can know who you are,

what you can rise from,

how you can still come out of it."

-Maya Angelou

Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is where we create and edit videos for movies or other things.

The Menu bar is used to perform tasks in the Movie Maker.

The Tasks Pane is used to import video clips and images; add effects, transitions, titles and credits; and save and send the video.

The Storyboard/Timeline shows the sequence of the pictures and where you edit it (how long it will appear in the video, where you put the effects/transitions)

The Preview Monitor is where you can watch the video.

The Contents Pane contains what ever is in the collection (pictures and clips)

Tarpaulin

We have to make a

tarpaulin that invites

Guests and Parents

to go to

14th Commencement 

Exercises

of our school.

We have put the

school,

date,

and venue.

We chose our

own colorful

backgrounds.

We put designs

on text by

having different

font styles,

colors,

and sizes

and made it

attractive.

We also put

stamps

or other

pictures

that would

prove that it

is about the

commencement

exercise...

Magazines

Ourselves as the Cover of our Personal Made Magazine using Photo Shop

Before we made our own magazines,
we first identified the parts of a magazine which are:
(1)Masthead
-magazine title
(2)Dateline
-date of the magazine
-price
(3)Main Image
-cover photo
-biggest picture
(4) Cover lines
-topics featured in the article
(5) Bar code

Then, its up to us how we're gonna make our own.

#creativity

Time to be Creative in your Own Way

"Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You imagine what you desire,

You will what you imagine, 

and at last,

You create what you will."

-George Bernard Shaw

Our activity is to create our own poster about anything we want. I created about our Freshmen Olympics. It is the competition of the three sections, Emerald, Diamond and Sapphire.
I made the background gradient color. I wrote a text with different font styles. I also put every details needed like the sponsors, date and venue. I also put stamps for designs..

I made the poster as creative as I can... I used my imagination to help me in doing this..

Logo by Paint or PhotoShop?

It's already 4th quarter... New topics ahead...

We started by creating a Pisay logo using Paint.. 

First, sir Tom made the logo fast but attractively. While doing, he explained to us, the tools and its uses. Then, its our turn.. It's just easy to make the logo using Paint (DOST part), especially if you always use Paint and it is not your first time to use it. The difficult part is just in the fire. It is hard to make a fire in Paint. Sir said that it is up to us how we will make a fire. We just have to be creative and innovative.

After doing such, we moved to our next topic which is Photo Shop. We first discussed the parts of the window, the tools and its function. Then, we made the Pisay logo again.. It was very tricky. I was very confused about the layers and the tools. I always ask my seatmates what to do, especially because it is my first time to use Photoshop. Whenever I do wrong, I always repeat from the top because pressing ctrl + z just undo only one activity. Again, the fire is the hardest thing to make.

But then, after many attempts/things that I have done in our activity, I realized that making logo using Photoshop is easier than Paint.

Microsoft Excel

1. There is a tool in Excel that allows you to quickly fill up a column or a row with a series of numbers or alphabets, once you key in the first few.

-> Fill Handle

2. If you have a sheet showing sales of each month in a column, and each product in a row, and you want to see this information in the opposite way (products in the column and months in the rows) how can you easily accomplish this?

-> Data--Pivot Table

3. If you have first names in one column and last name in another column, what funstion can you use to easily put both together as the full name in a third column?

->CONCATENATE()

4. Is there any way you can ensure that the date entered into a column follows certain rules that you can set?

-> Yes, you can use the Validate option under the Data menu.

5. When you type in a formula in Excel and copy this formula across the entire column or row, the formula automatically changes to refer to the next column or row. What is this called?

-> Relative Referencing

6. If you don't want Excel to change cell references automatically, but keep the cell fixed in a formula, what do you do?

-> Add $ before the cell

7. If you have a repetitive set of tasks that you perform on an Excel worksheet, what is the fastest way to get it done?

-> Use Macros

8. When you write a formula in Excel, the references in the formula are limited to that worksheet only.

-> False

9. We've all done copying and pasting text. What if you copy and paste a cell format? What is the name of the tool provided to this?

-> Format Painter

10. If you want to insert the current date and time into a cell, the function to do this is ___

-> NOW()





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