Choose a horizontal image you want to use for your movie. Ideally this should be a long shot as opposed to a close-up. To demonstrate how this works, the accompanying images are of a building in New York. Using photo-editing software, the original color print was duplicated as a series of black and white images with varying degrees of saturation as well as a series of cropped color shots. These will be used for a spooky storyline that starts out during a thunderstorm in the 1950s, segues to the present-day, and then zooms in on a single window where the sound of typing can be heard.
Create a file folder for all of your versions of the JPEG image and number them so you can keep track of which ones you have used. You may want to use multiple times. Example: If you want to create the look of a lightning storm, you'd alternate back and forth between a dark image of the building and a near-white version of exactly the same shot.
Open Windows Movie Maker on your computer. In the list of tasks on the left side of the screen, click on "Pictures." This will take you to an import screen. Locate the file you have created of your JPEG images for this movie. Click on the first image you want to use in the sequence and drag it to the storyboard at the bottom of your screen. Repeat this for all of the images.
Select the "Edit" button in the left-hand task tool bar. Experiment with the different effects and transitions that will "stitch" your storyboard content together. You'll also notice that there is an option to insert your own title and credits in this tableau. The playback screen on the right side lets you view your masterpiece in progress as well as regulate the amount of time you want to elapse between individual frames.
Return to the Task toolbar and click on the audio/music button. This is where you'll import sound effects and music into your film. Just as you did with creating a storyboard, the audio/music button will let you open a directory where you keep your music. If you don't have a sound-effects library yet, there are lots of sources on the Internet, such as Partners in Rhyme and SoundSnap, that let you upload free noises.
Preview your film and make sure everything looks just the way you want it. If you want to rearrange anything or insert additional images, just repeat the instructions in Step 3 and add them to your storyboard.
Publish your finished product on your computer or to a multimedia CD-ROM. There's a button for this in the Task toolbar.