Dvolver Moviemaker

My movie (adapted from Notting Hill)

http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-705686

What does this tool do?

Dvolver Moviemaker can help you make a short video with lines appeared on the screen when your characters spoke.

Firstly, click the button Make a Movie.

http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/index.html

Only with seven steps, you could accomplish your movie.

Step 1: select a background and a sky.

Step 2: select a plot, among which could be rendeze-vous, pick-up, chase, and soliloquoy.

Step 3: select the characters.

Step 4: type in the characters' lines

Step 5: select background music.

Step 6: select a movie title design.

 Step 7: preview your movie and send it to your friends.

How might you use it to foster language learning in class?

Obviously, this method could be used to design a talk in speaking lessons.Role-play motivates students, helps them lose their inhibitions, serves as a means to augment verbal skills (Purcell 1993:912). Teachers could select any context to generate a real-life dialogue by this tool as well.

Limitations:

Each character's line is limited into 100 text characters, which could hinder users from designing a comparatively complicated dialogue.