How to make Animations for lip reading practice The purpose of this book is to enable the user to create film clips of moving lips primarily for practising lip reading. This is done by creating animated GIF files of moving lips and embedding them in PowerPoint shows. Any reference to movie clips or animations refers to this process only. This book should be used in conjunction with the companion book “Lip Reading a self-help textbook”.

This book will enable you to:
• Make movie clips of speaking lips for practising lip reading;
• To create movie clips of phrases used in the lip reading self-help textbook;
• To create movie clips of your own words and phrases;
• To combine your clips into PowerPoint repeating shows for your own lip reading practice. This book will show you how to:
• Create your own library of lip shapes from the provided master copies;
• Create movie clips from provided lip shape sequences;
• Create lip shape sequences from your own words and phrases for making your own movie clips. This book provides:
• A set of lip shape master copies for building your library of lip shapes;
• Step-by step instructions for creating the library;
• Step-by-step instructions for creating movie clips;
• Step-by-step instructions for creating a repeating PowerPoint show for lip reading practice;
• Lip shape sequence lists for the sets of practice phrases used in the companion book “Lip Reading a self-help textbook”;
• Step by-step instructions for building movie clips of your own words and phrases.
• A trouble shooting section.
• Step-by step instructions for performing relevant tasks in GIF Animator and PowerPoint. You will need:
• A means of copying images from the book into your personal computer. This is best done using the Kindle version of the book and the “Kindle for PC” app. downloadable from the Amazon website.
• A GIF animator program like “Easy GIF Animator”;
• Microsoft PowerPoint or a similar program like Libre Office Impress. The speaking lips animations: The animations you will produce are called animated GIF files. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. It was developed for use on internet pages and has two useful characteristics: 1. It can be used for moving images; 2. It can have a transparent background. Your animated GIFs can be incorporated into PowerPoint shows as described in a later chapter or they could, if required, be used on web pages. Animated GIFs are useful for short duration movie sequences and that is ideal for lip reading practice clips. You will also find that animated GIFs are fairly simple to modify to get a desired result. The PowerPoint shows you produce can be set up to step though a given sequence of spoken phrases or sentences and to repeat the cycle indefinitely. They can also be scaled to fit a particular display screen or a particular viewing situation.