Shutter Speed help! (NIKON EM)?

Ok, so basically I have a photography project in school and needed an SLR.Me being completely ametur, bought a Nikon EM cheaply off eBay. However, I was under the impression all SLRs came with a manual shutter speed setting. The EM has an automatic one which basically tells you in the view finder what shutter speed will be used in accordance with the aperture to create the best photos. HOWEVER. My project, unluckily, is based on MOVEMENT. Meaning, I need to edit the shutter speed to give the blurred effect.

Is there anyway of this?

I can't return the camera and would rather not buy a new one.

Are there any tricks you know about the NIKON EM? I'm so lost with what's supposed to be such a easy camera…

You should have done a little more research on that model. Nikon EM is a very basic model and it only has one manual (mechanical) shutter speed.

Then what you need to do is adjust the aperture. Smaller the hole, longer the shutter speed will be.

Your camera is an aperture priority camera.

This means when you adjust the aperture, the shutter speed automatically adjusts to produce a good exposure.

Since you need to use slow shutter speeds to emulate movement, you will want to shoot just after sunset or buy a and filter to cut down the light so the shutter speed can be 1/15 second or slower so when you pan with the action, the background will become streaked or blurry

I'm sure, given enough time, you would have figured this out

Do you have the user manual?

If not, here it is

http://www.cameramanuals.org/nikon_pdf/nikon_em.pdf