GREEN SCREEN FUN!

In French I am always looking for ways to make my lessons and tasks more "techie" so that I can get the students more engaged.  The use of a green screen app is something I have yet to investigate, but I can already see the places I would have used it in previous lessons.  I had a task where students were to do a weather broadcast after we learned about weather, clothing and time of day.  This would have been so much more fun if they could use a green screen app to make it a live on location weather broadcast!!

I researched a few different ways online to do this, but the most user friendly way I saw was by using the app called Green Screen by Do Ink. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/green-screen-by-do-ink/id730091131?mt=8

Here is a short tutorial on how to use it;

1) First, use your iPad to film all of your clips and to save all of your background images/video.
(you can film live through the app but people seem to prefer having pre-filmed clips)

2) Click on the plus sign in the top right corner to start your project.

3)  You will see your preview screen (the black box) and the timeline along the bottom.  The three lines on the timeline break down as follows:  bottom is your background layer, the middle is the video that you are uploading. Click on the right side of each layer on the plus sign to upload your image or video.

4) To change video clips or backgrounds during your video, line up the red playhead line where you want the new clip to start then click the plus sign again and upload your next clip.

There are other features to this app such as the third layer, which allows you to add in extras such as animations, but for now this is a basic tutorial.  PLEASE NOTE: this app does cost $2.99.  However you can work on and save multiple projects on the same device, so students could share the same iPad.

Have fun!