Choosing Trailer (Different from 'Project')

Open up the iMovie App on the iPad. Click the plus sign.

Choose trailer.

Remember, a trailer is like a short preview, or advertisement, that gets you interested in watching a movie at the movie theater!

Choosing a Theme for the Trailer

Explore all the different trailer themes. The theme sets the mood, or feeling, of the trailer.

This mood should match the purpose of the story you are telling.

How do you want your movie to feel: happy, scary, funny, thrilling, adventurous? Each theme has music and graphic which match that feeling, or mood.

Adding the Credits for the Trailer

The outline tab allows you to create credits for your trailer.

The credits describe the title, "studio" (ask Mr. Czarka), and people who made the trailer.

Remember to only use your first name for Internet safety. Do you have a question about one of the roles listed in the credits? Look it up online.

Go to a search bar, like google search. Type in the name of the role. What do you learn about that role?

Developing The Storyboard

Click on the "storyboard" tab. This is located below the words "outline." The words are written sideways.

The storyboard is where you create your story. You type in the words you want people to read in the blue areas (not too wordy!). Click on photos and videos to add them to the slots below the blue areas. This can be done quickly. But quickly could be sloppy.

Think about the story you want to tell with your words that are connected to your video clips and photographs. Remember, you set the mood with the theme music and graphics.

Do your words, video clips, and photographs match this mood?

Monitoring Your Progress

Look at the storyboard on the left side of the screen below.

Then look at the preview on the right side of the screen. You can see where the words being added in the blue section show up in the preview.

Make sure they fit and are not too wordy. Remember, the words flash on and off the screen very quickly.

Adding Video Clips and Photographs

Your movie project or trailer needs video clips and photos. You can use ones that you already collected or record from within iMovie.

The left icon is for video clips, the middle icon is for photographs, and the right icon is for recording new video clips or taking new photographs.

Preview Your Project or Trailer

The two triangles allow you to preview your project or trailer as you make it.

The left triangle is inside of the gray box. This will be a preview from the beginning.

The right triangle (without the gray box) previews from a spot you choose within your project.

Placing a Video Clip in the Trailer

A. Click on the yellow area to drag around the clip to choose the part you want.

B. Click the gray arrow to see what the video clip will look like.

C. Press the blue arrow to put the video clip in your project or trailer.

Making a Photograph Look like a Video Clip

Sometimes you need a video clip but don't have the right clip. But you have a photograph! Turn it into a video. This is called the "Ken Burns Effect." It zooms in or out of a photograph over a few seconds. It makes the photograph look like a video clip. Pretty cool.

1. Select the photograph you want to use.

2. Place it in your project or your trailer.

3. Click the yellow box so that the blue letters say "start." Drag the photograph by touching the photograph. Pinch your fingers together to zoom in (pan in). Spread your fingers apart to zoom out (pan out).

4. Click the yellow box so that the blue letters say "end." Drag the photograph by touching the photograph. Pinch your fingers together to zoom in (pan in). Spread your fingers apart to zoom out (pan out).

5. Preview the video clip by clicking the gray triangle inside the brackets at the bottom of the screen.