This is our third workshop. We’ll use Final Cut Pro to put together recordings of our voices combined with images. Final Cut Pro is a professional grade video editing tool.

Objective: Participants will create narrated slideshows in Final Cut Pro.

Stage I

1. Record yourself reading one of the three poems in Audacity.
2. Export the .aiff file to a directory called “Poem1” in the Save Here directory. Put all your files for today there.
3. Import the .aiff file into Final Cut Pro (hereafter called FCP).
4. Find three images to go with your poem. Download them to your Poem1 folder.
5. Export your FCP video as a quicktime video.
6. Publish to YouTube or Vimeo and post to to our WordPress site, categorize it as “Poetry Slideshow”.

Stage II  – Please pick 1 OR 2 (not both).

1. Find your own poem, record yourself reading it, and then find images to go along with it.
2. Write your own poem, record yourself reading it, and then find images to go along with it. Add music if you like.