HOW TO USE XTRANORMAL

                ‘XTRANORMAL’ is a website to create animated movies online.  This website has an ‘About us’ section where the owners of the website resume the story of it. The content in this website is up to date and reliable. New animated movies are uploaded all the time. The homepage is easy to navigate because it has three main links to move round the website which are ‘home’, ‘create’ and ‘watch’. It doesn’t seem to have any broken link and it doesn’t require alternative technologies.

In order to create something using this website, the user needs to create an account of his own or use the classroom account. Once the user is logged in, he will have to click on the link that says ‘create’ and this will automatically take the user to another page to choose between collections (or themes) and number of actors.

Once the user chooses a collection and the number of actors the movie will include, a new page is opened and the user has to pass through four different sets of things to choose between. The first one is the setting, where the user chooses a location for his movie. The second one offers the user different actors and different voices, which are divided by the accent and the gender. The third one is about sounds. The user can choose between different background sound, different background music or none of them. The fourth one is about the story itself. The user will have to type the dialogues and personalize the movie by including facial expressions, signs and so on by clicking on the vertical links on the left hand of the screen. On this same page, the user can change the title of the movie typing on the text box above the image of the movie.

Below this image, the user has four orange buttons to click on. The first one is to listen to the dialogue, the second one is to generate a full motion preview, the third one is to save the project so as to take a break and go back to it later and the fourth and last button is to publish the movie online.

When the user clicks on the ‘publish’ button, a new window is opened for the user to type the title, the description, the tags to which the movie is related and also choose between three different content ratings. (G, +13, +18)

Xtranormal is a useful website to create animated movies and include facial expressions and body language accompanying the dialogues themselves. Using this website you can create amazing interactive stories with a few clicks and a little imagination.

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-Click HERE to go to 'Xtranormal' website.

-Click HERE to complete an activity using this tool.

-Here is a sample I've made myself:

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by: nataliamfiore