THE USE OF iMovie TO CREATE A HOLLYWOOD STYLE MOVIE TRAILER

Chrisnandita Argadiatama (chrisnanditaa@gmail.com)Dian Nuswantoro University of Semarang

Central Java – Indonesia

AbstractIn this globalization era’s technology, the use of computer as tool of information technology was needed in every aspect of life. The use of computer as a support device movie production and design movie now is not just for director or films industries, but now everyone can create their own movie as they want. Thus the use of computer equipment in any information and design strongly supports to explore creativity and hobby a person. This paper aimed at to help every people to make an information about how to create a film trailer. In this paper the author using iMovie application on Macbook (Apple) to create a film trailer. To achieve this goal, searcing some information on the internet and reading guide book (e-book) on the apple website for this research. iMovie. A major production. Without the major production. With an all-new design, iMovie for Mac lets you enjoy your videos like never before. Browse your clips more easily, instantly share your favorite moments, and create beautiful HD movies and Hollywood-style trailers. And when you’re ready to premiere on all your devices, iMovie Theater rolls out the red carpet. Make movies. Rated S for simple.It’s never been easier to make it in the movies. Just choose the clips you want to use. Insert titles, add effects, and create a full soundtrack with powerful tools that are as easy as drag and drop. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a wrap.Create trailers. Hollywood. You can make it here.You have hundreds of videos. And one big dream to make it in the movies. iMovie takes care of the editing and lets you quickly create fun trailers from all that footage — and make it look like something straight out of Hollywood. So in this time create a trailer is very easy, unless you know unless you know how to make it and use instructions.

Keyword : iMovie, Apple, Movie, Tailer

In this globalization era’s technology, the use of computer as tool of

information technology was needed in every aspect of life.

The use of computer as a support device movie production and design movie

now is not just for director or films industries, but now everyone can create their own

movie as they want.

iMovie. A major production. Without the major production.

With an all-new design, iMovie for Mac lets you enjoy your videos like never before.

Browse your clips moreeasily, instantly share your favorite moments, and create

beautiful HD movies and Hollywood-style trailers. And when you’re ready to

premiere on all your devices, iMovie Theater rolls out the red carpet.

Browse. The home of home video.

If you have an iPhone or iPad, not to mention a camcorder or digital camera, you

probably have a lot of great video. And when you want to do something with it,

iMovie gets you right into the action. All your clips are organized in one place —

where they’re easy to browse, fun to watch, and ready to be made into the next great

movie or trailer.

Make movies. Rated S for simple.

It’s never been easier to make it in the movies. Just choose the clips you want to use.

Insert titles, add effects, and create a full soundtrack with powerful tools that are as

easy as drag and drop. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a wrap.

Create trailers. Hollywood. You can make it here.

You have hundreds of videos. And one big dream to make it in the movies. iMovie

takes care of the editing and lets you quickly create fun trailers from all that footage

— and make it look like something straight out of Hollywood.

iMovie Theater. And now for your feature presentation.

Introducing iMovie Theater. It’s your own personal theater where you can show off

the movies and trailers you’ve made. They appear as a beautiful display of movie

posters, so you’ll always be the star of the show. And with iCloud, they’re

automatically on all your devices, even your Apple TV.

Share. Lights. Camera. Reaction.

What’s a movie without an audience? iMovie gives you a way to share with your

most loyal fans. Post it on the web or email it to friends — all with a click. Get your

movie out there, then sit back and take all the credit.

iMovie makes it easy to turn your home videos into your all-time favorite

films. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll watch them over and over again. And you’ll

share them with everyone.

Movie Trailers

If you thought the movie was great, just wait until you see the trailer. Now you can

make one yourself in iMovie ’11. Choose from 15 movie trailer templates in almost

every genre: adventure, drama, romantic comedy, and more. Graphics and titles flash

across the big (or small) screen. The legendary London Symphony Orchestra

performs an epic original soundtrack. And suddenly your home video goes

Hollywood. Movie trailers are easy to create. Just click your clips to drop them into

the storyboard. Add character names and personalize the titles. Then iMovie works its

magic. It trims your clips to fit and adds transitions, titles, and special effects. The

result? A trailer tour de force.

All-New Audio Editing

Go from indie filmmaker to master sound editor with new audio editing tools in

iMovie. Sound effects, voiceover, and music — you control them all. iMovie shows

you detailed audio waveforms for all your clips. They’re color coded, so you can see

where the audio is overpowering. To adjust the audio levels of a clip or part of a clip,

just drag the volume slider. To shorten or extend fades, drag the fade edges. As you

make changes, waveforms update immediately so you always see what you hear. And

the new single-row view shows you your entire movie project in one horizontal row,

so it’s easier to preview and edit your soundtrack.

One-Step Effects

A dog running in slow motion. A wedding ceremony sped up. Pee Wee baseball

instant replays. Home videos are even more entertaining with visual effects, and you

can make them happen with a click. Add jump cuts and flip effects perfectly timed to

music. Transition parts of clips from color to black and white, sepia, or a dream haze.

Choose a clip, choose from over 12 effects, and click to apply.

People Finder

What’s a movie without a great cast? iMovie makes it easy to find your stars without

digging through all your footage. By analyzing your video for faces, People Finder

identifies the parts with people in them and tells you how many are in each scene. It

also finds the close-ups, medium shots, or wide angles so it’s easy to grab video clips

as you need them. People Finder is great to use while you make movie trailers. You

can quickly find the right shots and drop them into the movie trailer storyboard.

Sports and News Themes

Today’s headlines: whatever you want them to be. Turn your video into a broadcast

news segment complete with sophisticated graphics, sleek transitions, and hard-hitting

titles you write yourself. The News theme is a fun way to announce a graduation or a

new baby. Want to report real-life news? Share your story with CNN iReport directly

from iMovie. With the Sports theme, you can turn a Pee Wee baseball game, a round

of golf, or skateboarding at the park into sports video highlights. Add sports graphics

and transitions. Choose from dynamic animated titles, such as game score, team face-

off, and player stats. The Sports theme even includes a Sports Team Editor that

seamlessly integrates your own player photos, rosters, statistics, and team logos into

any Sports theme movie.

Your World Premiere

iMovie ’11 lets you view your movies in more ways and in more places. Enjoy them

right in iMovie with high-resolution graphics enhanced for the Retina display on the

new MacBook Pro. Export movies to iTunes and view them on your iPhone, iPad,

iPod, or Apple TV. Share them with your friends on Facebook or premiere them with

a YouTube or Vimeo audience. And publish newsworthy content to CNN iReport.

When you export HD video at full 1080p resolution, whatever you share will stun

everyone.

RESEARCH METHOD

To make this paper, the author try to obtain and collect the complete data. The

author uses searching on internet and read the guide book research methods to obatain

the required data and information. The technique used by author is methods of direct

practice from the data has been obtained from the internet and guide books.

RESULT AND METHOD

iMovie includes a number of templates you can use to create Hollywood-style

movie trailers. Template style range from adventure, to romance, to friendship and

drama. Each template lets you cuztomize the movie tittle and credits-and add your

own video clps and photos to build a visually appealling story. Each template also

comes with a unique musicla store that matches the style of the trailer.

Trailers ar designed to be complete projects in their own right, but you can

convert any trailer to movie, and then edit it just as you would any other movie.

CREATE A NEW TRAILER

1. In iMovie, click the Create button in the toolbar, and click Trailer (or choose

File > New Trailer)

The Create window appears

2. To preview a trailer template, move the pointer over the template and click the

Play button that appears.

The duration of the trailer and the number of cast members appear below the

template. Look for a template that matches the number of people in your

footage.

NOTE: You can’t switch templates after you begin creating your

trailer because the required elements from one template won’t fit with a

different template. If you want to use a different template for your project, you

need to create a new trailer from the beginning.

3. Click the template you want to use for your trailer.

A blue border appears around the template, indicating that it’s selected.

4. Click Create.

5. In the Event pop-up menu, choose the event your want to save the trailer to,

and type a name for the trailer in the Name field.

6. Click OK.

A tabbed interface appears, and the trailer is added to the browser. You enter

information about your trailer in the Outline pane. You add clis to your trailer

in the Storyboard and Shot List panes.

ADD TITTLES AND CREDITS TO YOUR TRAILER

1. In the Outline pane, click the placeholder text and type the required

information in the text fields.

The required information varies by template. The possibel categories include :

Name and Date: Type the movie name. its release date (for example,

“July 2013” or “7/10/13”), and any other information required,

following the model of placeholder text

Cast: Type the names of the people who are featured as main

characters in the footage you plan to use in the trailer. Some templates

have no cast members, and some allow you to delete or add cast

members by clicking the Delete button (-) or Add button (+) to right of

a field.

Gender: Chooese a gender for each cast member from the pop-up

menu.

Studio: Type a fictious studio name, and choose a logo style from the

pop-up menu.

Credits: Type a name in each of the credits field.

NOTE: You can’t leave any fields blank because iMovie incorporates

all fileds into the trailer

2. Click the Storyboard tab.

A graphical interface representing the trailer’s storyboard appears, with

palceholder text you can replace with your own. There are also placeholder

wells to which you add video clips to build your project. (For instructions, see

“Add clips and photos to your trailer”, next)

The text bars and wells arranged in the order in which the elements appear in

your trailer, but you can edit text and add clips in any order you like

3. To edit onscreen text, click the word or words in text bar, type new text, and

press Return.

you can mimc the wording style of the placeholder text to preserve the mood

and pace of the trailer.

To revert to the placeholder text, click Revert button at the right end of the

text bar.\

ADD CLIPS AND PHOTOS TO YOUR TRAILER

You add video to your trailer in the Storyboard and Shot List panes.

1. In the Storyboard pane, click the placeholder well you want to fill.

A yellow border appear around the placeholder well, indicating that it’s

selected,and the pointer changes to the Add pointer (+)

The clip you select should conform to the style of shot indicated by the

placeholder image. For example, if the selected placeholder well shows a

headshot, you should add a tight close-up shot of the cast member in question.

If the image shows a person running, you should add footage of that character

in action.

When you fill a placeholder well with video, iMovie automatically selects the

next well in the storyboard. If you want to fill wells out of order, simply click

a well to select it.

2. Do one more of the following :

In the browser, click the clip you want to add to the placeholder well

The correct length of video is added to fill the selected placeholder

well, starting from the point where you clicked. (The time stamp on the

left edge of each well indicates the length of video it requires.)

Drag a clip from the browser to a placeholder well.

In the browser, select a range

The correct length of video is added, starting from the first frame of the

selected range.

After you add a clip to a well, small blue icons appear in the corners of the clip

when you move the pointer over it. The curved-arrow icon in the upper right

deletes the clip from the well. The speaker icon in the upper left turns the

clip’s audio (not the trailer’s theme music) on and off.

The double arrows in the lower left open the clip trimmer, a tool for adjusting

the portion of the clip used in the trailer

3. To view your trailer’s clips organized by type of shot (for example, landscape,

medium range, or action) and by cast member, click the Shot List tab.

The shot list is helpful for planning the types of shots you need for the trailer.

In this view, you can also assess just the video in your projects. For example,

you can see at a glance whether you’ve used a landscape shot in a well meant

for a cast member, or whether the action shots are varied enough.

You can add, change, and delete video clips the shot list.

4. To delete a clip in the storyboard or the shot list, select the clip and press

Delete.

You can also simply click a new video clip in the browser to replace the clip in

the selected placeholder well (or drag it to the well).

5. To pal your traler at any time, position the skimmer in a clip in the storyboard

or the shot list, and press the Space bar, or use the J, K, and L keys.

CONCLUSION

The use iMovie is not just for create a movie, organize the library and iMovie

Theater, now we can also a create Film Trailer. The data from guide book and

searching internet that used today almost fulfill the information needs, but if we don’t

want to trying, learning, and experimenting, the the result have not optimal.

With the iMovie application and we learn how to use and the experiment, so

we can make a trailer that we want.

REFERENCES

http://www.apple.com/asia/mac/imovie/#gallery-trailers-storyboard

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov6e14403f2

http://suhartini.ilearning.me/independent-study/bimbingan-stars/artikel-imovie/