I
started working on my book trailers by drafting each individual trailer script
in Word. I then recorded my voiceovers
in GarageBand, editing the script as I went along to modify its length. In general, I was aiming for roughly
2-minute-long scripts. Once the audio
was in GarageBand, I exported it out to iTunes as an AAC audio file. Next, I
assembled a list of images that I wanted to accompany the voice-over. Then, I used Google images to search for
Creative Commons-licensed image files that matched my requirements. I also
looked for Creative Commons-licensed audio tracks for the videos and found a
site called 1001pianos.com that had a bunch of piano-based tracks that I could
use.
Then,
I started assembling the videos in iMovie, using my own transitions for the
first video, and then using some of iMovie’s themes for the second two videos:
I used the comic book theme for the video on American Born Chinese and the scrapbook theme for the video on One Crazy Summer. Once all the images
were in place, I laid over the audio track with my voice-over and a second
audio track for the music. I found I
needed to turn down the second music track to roughly 25% volume, so as to not
drown out my voiceover. It took me a
little while to learn how to time the images in step with the audio track, but
after a bit, I was content with the synch-work between the two. I exported the video to medium quality .m4v
files (640 x 360). I set up a YouTube
account and uploaded the videos as I completed them. I later had to delete the
first two videos and re-upload them, since I had edited them for better sound
mixing.
I
first did the video for Holes, then
worked on the video for American Born
Chinese, and finally One Crazy Summer. By the time I had done three videos, I was
not happy with the quality of my first video, so I re-edited it, adding
different transitions between the images and re-doing the audio voice-over track. The new voice-over meant re-doing the timing
of the images, but I was pleased with the final result. I still think it’s the weakest of my three
videos, but mostly it was how I learned to use the software; I have never used
iMovie or GarageBand before this week. I also re-edited the American Born Chinese trailer to turn
down the volume of the background music.
Book
Trailer for Holes by Louis Sachar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSBujSYOU4
Book Trailer for American Born Chinese by
Gene Luen Yang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F7BWQdeu7o
Book
Trailer for One Crazy Summer by Rita
Williams-Garcia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsgEVaH7f5I
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