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• Animation - is a method in which figures appear as moving images
• traditional animation - drawn or painted by hands in transparent celluloid sheets
• Today, animations are computer generated imagery (CGI)
• Powtoon - is a user friendly online presentation program that created animated presentation
• apps like powtoon:

  Powtoon

  Moovly

  GoAnimate

  Animaker

  Wideo

  Prezi
• to access powtoon:

  www.Powtoon.com/home.
• signing up options in powtoon:

  email

  google

  facebook

  linkedin

  office 365
• Powtoon Interface:

  Slide or stage area

  Slide panel

  Timeline

  Toolbar

  Stage tools and Top bar
• Slide or stage area - build scenes using the powtoon components
• Slide panel - displays the slides in thumbnail view. (we can add, clone, duplicate and remove slides)
• Timeline - shows the timing of the objects on the slide. (we can control the timing of the objects here)
• Toolbar - access all the components that we need to create in our powtoon presentation
• Stage tools - allow us to turn the grid on and off, select the screen orientation, and use the zoom slider.
• Script - is a written form of a play or a movie or the lines to be said by the performer
• guidelines in writing the script

  1. make it clear who we are talking to
  2. state the problem
  3. show experience or solution
  4. present the solution
  5. call to action
• the maximum length to make an animated explainer video is 90 seconds
• the first 7 seconds are the most crucial since we have to hook our audience
• Storyboard - a sketch or an outline used in the planning if a story
• Storyboarding - the process after we have written our scripts
• Voiceover - is a recording of narration