Advocacy Project Make a message to send to our MEP

1. Advocacy Project Make a message to send to our MEP Created by Camilla Fanning 2015

3. Learning Outcomes • Making a video • Research • ICT / Web Quest / Search • Communication & writing • Creativity • Teamwork • Organisation and planning

4. MEP How to have influence

5. Influence your MEP • We can write to your MEP and also show him your video • What will we say to convince her? • MEP = Member of the European Parliament • Find out about MEPs – look it up under ‘European Parliament’ • Some questions we might ask – What does an MEP do? Where do they work? • Who is your MEP? Write a short biography of her or him. • Who would like to be an MEP some day?

6. Choosing your topic • What do we know already? • What questions do we have? • What do we need to find out to answer these questions? • Where can we find the information to answer these questions? • Do we have an idea or a suggestion about how to do things better? • Explain this – ‘Make a case’!

7. Preparation • Research our topic, question and idea online • Keep a record of what we find interesting and useful • Keep a record of what URLs we go to as well • Make a Project Folder – give a name we will not forget!!!

8. Publish Online • We will then use this information to make a short video to explain our ideas • We can then publish it online so it is easy to share • Remember to give it a good title! • We will write a letter to the MEP we each choose – and include a link to our video

9. Making our video • Research the question • Prepare the images • Prepare the script • Make the video • Publish and send

10. About animation • Think of a Stick figure on flicked pages • Made up of still photos and drawings • First using PowerPoint to sort out your images • Then using Moviemaker –ready to share • And we can add sound • Music – there are free sources online • Using Word to write your script for a voice over • Put it on the web or social media to share it

11. The Advocacy Video • By now we have chosen and researched our topic • We have kept a record of what we find interesting and useful, and the URLs we visited • Do we have an idea or a suggestion about how to do things better? • Explain this – ‘Make a case’! • This is what your Video is about

12. Words & Images • We are going to collect together all the materials we need to make our video • Words • Images • We can start with whichever we prefer • These will be combined in the end

13. WORDS • We are going to write a script • Select some key points from your research and keep these • Make a Word file for these • Our script will be used to record a voiceover • We will need 10 sentences which will give us a 1 minute long voiceover

14. IMAGES • Also collect images we need to illustrate your ideas • Make sure these are all kept in one folder on our computer • We can use photos, diagrams and graphs • We could make our own drawings and diagrams too • Name each image file VERY CAREFULLY

15. Preparing the images • We are going to use PowerPoint to prepare the images • We will use just the images but with no words • Use the simplest PowerPoint template for this • We will be making a sound recording of the words to add as a voice over to the final video

16. Images ready for Moviemaker • Converting PowerPoint • The ‘Save As’ box will open.   • In the ‘Save As Type’ drop-down menu, select JPEG File Interchange Format and click Save. • A selection box will open. • Select the option Every Slide in this box • It will appear in our folder as a new folder full of images – these are now ready • Give this a name and put it our project folder

17. Making the Voice over • We are going to record the voice over with an app • First practice reading your script • Decide who will read which bit • When we are ready we will record the voices • This makes a sound file we can use for our video • Put it in our project folder

18. Preparing your audio files • We have made a recording of a voice over • Now add it to our animation • First make sure we have the right type of file for Movie Maker • Go to http://www.convertfiles.com/ to change the file type if we need to (follow the instructions). • Download the result to our project folder and name it

19. MOVIE MAKER • We now have a sound file and our images • We need to bring these images into Moviemaker – have this app ready and open • Bring all these files into Moviemaker. • (TIP: Match the images to the sound – they are easier to edit!!) • Now we can edit this movie - add a Title and Credits. • Your movie is ready to publish!!

20. Your movie is online • We can publish our finished movie directly online from YouTube – OR • Save the movie to our project file – (choose : File –save movie – recommended for this project) and then add it to whichever social media platform we like. OR • Send the whole file via https://www.wetransfer.com/

21. Next… • Now we wait for a reply!! • Who will we contact next? • What is our next advocacy action going to be about?

22. Learning Outcomes • Making a video • Research • ICT / Web Quest / Search • Communication • Creativity • Teamwork • Organisation & Planning

23. END Camilla Fanning 2015