The document discusses the process of creating a trailer for a soap opera using iMovie software. It describes how to import footage, trim and edit clips, add transitions, titles, and a soundtrack. It also discusses using GarageBand to edit the soundtrack by removing singing to hear dialogue. Finally, it discusses publishing the trailer by uploading it to a blog and YouTube using embed codes.

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Using YouTube I was able to
research existing soaps which
were similar to the one I created.
Watching other soaps helped me
understand the conventions of Desperate
my genre of soap. Scousewives
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Chelsea

3. After creating an account on
YouTube, I was able to regularly
upload my trailer from the Apple
Mac’s iMovie. This was good for me
because I was able to post this on
my blog to show others and ask
for improvements, therefore I
uploaded several versions.

4. This software allowed me to edit my trailer by:
•Cutting and cropping the clips precisely
•The speed of the clip
•Cropping in on the clip
•Create transition slides to join the clips together eg) dissolve,fade
•Changing of the order of the clips
•Delete selected parts of the audio
•Add a soundtrack
•Change the volume of the audio/soundtrack
•Fade in the audio/soundtrack

5. This is how you
create a new
project. The next
screen you can
select which
theme you want,
and to name your
project. I selected
no theme
because I simply
did not need one.
To import footage, I clicked file,
import, import movies. This was
very easy as I just selected a folder
full of all my footage.

6. After importing To cut down a clip,
footage, I then I simply highlight
selected the the part of the clip
footage and I wish to keep, right
dragged it into my click, then trim to
timeline. selection.
Splitting the clip
enables me to cut
the clip in half,for
a more precise
cut.

7. This is the icon for
viewing the This is the icon I This is the icon I
movie full screen. use to add sound use to add
or music. transitions.
This is the icon for This is the icon I
cropping the use to add title
footage. I simply cards.
just draw a box
around the
footage I wish to
crop.

8. These are the types This is how you
of transitions slow down the
available. I mainly clips. To increase or
used cross dissolves decrease the speed
and fade to black. I dragged the icon
left or right.
To fade the music out or in, I
simply drag the small hand
down to the direction I wish to
fade the music.

9. This is the music
library once clicked
on the sound icon.
A list of songs are
available from
itunes.
However, I chose a
soundtrack from
YouTube. I copied
and pasted the link
into a convertor.
After converting the soundtrack, I then
added it into itunes library and dragged
it into my timeline.

10. This software allowed me to edit my soundtrack by:the music
This is
library once clicked
•Create a whole new soundtrack on the sound icon.
A list of songs are
•Looping the soundtrack available from
•Cutting the sound which is not needed itunes.
•Increase or decrease particular parts of the track sound
I had to use garageband to edit my chosen song due to the dialogue from my
characters overlapping with the singing in the song, therefore the singing in the
song needed removing in order to hear the dialogue.

11. To begin editing the
soundtrack, I simply
clicked ‘new track’.
Once added my
soundtrack, using
this arrow I am able
to cut the
soundtrack down.

12. To loop my track, means to select a part
of my track and basically copy and paste
it, so the music ‘loops’. To do this, I
selected the part of the track and clicked
the loop button.
This is what my
soundtrack would
look like once
looped- it’s just
like one track.
Once finishing my soundtrack, I then saved
and renamed it, imported into itunes and
added to my timeline in iMovie.

13. I created an account on
slideshare which allowed me
to upload Microsoft
Powerpoint and Microsoft
Word documents to my blog.

14. To add a new post, I simply
click “NEW POST”.
I then went onto YouTube
and beneath the video is a
button which says “Embed”.
I then clicked on this button
and copied and pasted the
code into my blog.
I then published my video
onto my blog.

15. To add a new post, I simply
click “NEW POST”.
To add an image, I simply
clicked the ‘insert image’
icon and selected an image
from my desktop.
I then published it onto my
blog.

16. I used Microsoft Powerpoint to produce parts of my evalutation. This
software enabled me to:
• Add a theme/background colour
•Change font styles/colours/bold/italics etc
•Format text boxes into different colours
•Add borders to images and text boxes
•Add arrows for annotating images and for following structure
•Add images from the computer

17. These tabs along the top change when
clicking the different ones. I mainly use
Insert to insert text and images.
Adding Adding
Adding a Adding
images Shapes
text box Wordart
The most common shape I use in
powerpoint is the arrows.

18. Design tab- for the
design of the
powerpoint.
Changing Selecting a theme Choosing a plain
whether for the whole background
the slide is powerpoint. colour instead
landscape of the themes.
or portrait.
If choosing a
theme, you are
able to choose a
built in colour.