Software for video making
What do we teach our children?
A Natural Successor
An independent review of Revelation Sight and Sound Video Editing Software from Logotronby Jack Kenny
Published in the Times educational
Supplement (TES): 04 November 2005 Go
to actual TES review
"At first
sight Logotron's Revelation Sight and Sound looks like a
straightforward video-editing program, but it is much more than that,
writes Jack Kenny. "Don't be put off by the Becta Digital Video
Project in which selected schools were issued with extensive sets of
hardware and software and encouraged to research the new
opportunities," says the blurb on the Logotron website. "The
truth is that it's much simpler than that."
When you see the whole package you will agree. It
has been put together by people who want to release video-making from
the clutches of the media police.
Revelation Sight and Sound is the first
educational package to look at rostrum camera work. iMovie on Apple has
been able to do that with its Ken Burns effect but that is so carefully
hidden away that it is not unusual to find Apple users who have never
discovered it. Rostrum camera techniques mean that teachers and
students can create video from still images by using the software's pan
and zoom, transitions, music, sound effects and narration. The images
can be from a still camera. The chances are that children will learn
more about images and video from these techniques than they will from
waving a video camera around.
You can also use the software to edit sound and
make radio - with podcasts giving a new life to broadcasts what could
be better?
The video editing side is much the same in
Revelation as it is on other packages but it is simple and attractive
to look at.
The Activity Guides are simply the best material
available to schools on making use of this technology. This is a manual
that you won't throw away.
Sight and Sound easily takes its place alongside
the original Natural Art.
It is new and fresh and is written and programmed
in the belief that children are spending hours each week hearing about
conventional literacy and hearing virtually nothing about the literacy
of the world that has most impact on them. If any package can start to
change that, this one will."
Revelation Sight and Sound - Video-editing
software for KS2 to KS3 Fitness for purpose ***** Return to Software
for Video Making - or choose from the menu on the left
Cost: £55
Logotron
Tel: O1223 425558
www.logo.com
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