Choose from a range of templates in almost any genre, pick your studio logo, and type in your movie title and credits. Then add photos and videos to the storyboard. Whether you’re using an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you’ll have an instant blockbuster.

Trailers are intended to get audiences excited about seeing a film at the cinema. However, trailers are also a form of condensed storytelling. In just a minute or so, a trailer can establish genre and mood, introduce character and setting and establish plot and key themes.

As narrative and persuasive texts, trailers are ideal for primary literacy. The short duration and strong visual and auditory content means that trailers engage pupils of all ages, abilities and learning styles.

Check out some iMovie CONTENT trailer examples below from teachers and past semesters. Check out these examples, (click the link below)

A movie trailer will be a very short (1 minute or so) but can be an exciting digital story, summarizing the content and/or process in any curriculum area.

For example, here are a FEW ideas to get you THINKING.........

• Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day
• Texting & Driving or Drinking & Driving
• Bullying/ Cyberbullying
• Vocabulary or a concept
• Introduce a piece of literature the class will read
• Introduce an author or famous person in history
• Introduce a science or math concept
• Introduce an artist or musician you will teach
• Introduce a unit or historical time
• Etc, etc, etc

Any type of curriculum connection, INTRODUCE A UNIT or topic you will teach. The topic does not have to be on this list above, those are just some ideas.

This TRAILER is the hook to get your students excited about your unit.

It must be appropriate to use in YOUR CLASSROOM!! It may be any topic as long as it supports a lesson and it can be used in the classroom.

Teach us something.

When you begin a new iMovie project, you have a choice of creating a movie or a trailer. A trailer follows a template to create a Hollywood-style movie advertisement. iMovie for iOS has 14 trailer templates, and each has its own musical score and graphics. To make your own trailer, choose a template, insert your text, and fill each shot with a video or photo.

Check out Tony Vincent's, Learning In Hand Templates

• Here are a few details about iMovie Trailers, however, none of these limitations exist in the full iMovie.
  
• We will make a full movie later, but this assignment is just a TRAILER.
  
• This is approximately a 1-minute+ TRAILER depending on the theme you choose.

But it is pretty amazing how much you can say in a minute.....

Things you can & cannot do in iMovie TRAILERS

1. You cannot change the music, so choose the theme carefully, the music impacts your story.
   
2. You cannot delete or add more frames, you must use what is included, all of them.
   
3. All trailers are approximately 1 minute in length.
4. Trailers are SHORT, so just the important stuff, get to the point but tell the story. It is amazing how much you can say in a minute if your plan well.
   
5. You cannot add video from websites like Youtube, it must be saved to your Photos, plus Trailers use very, very short clips and contain no sound from the video clips. So stage.act and shoot your own video if you want more than images!
   
6. Music overrides voice on your video, so, the movie is told via images, video, text, and music.
   
7. Images and videos used in your Trailer must be stored in photos first.
   
8. Shoot or find your pictures first and save them to your photos.
   
9. You'll need to shoot your own video and the majority of your images should be good quality pictures and hopefully, ones you take yourself is possible.
   
10. Make sure images they are high quality and not clipart.
    
11. BE creative!!

• This is a trailer, so just the HOOK for the lesson or unit or topic!! Grab your students attention,
  
• Length, trailers are preset lengths, so no worrying about how long to make your trailer.
• Make sure you have completed the modules and taken the quiz BEFORE starting your iMovie Trailer project.
• Add your iMovie Trailer to your new Youtube channel. (instructions below) You will upload numerous things to Youtube this semester, so you need your own account and channel.
• If you have a Gmail account you have a Youtube account already.
• Add your iMovie trailer from the Youtube URL to your Seesaw.
• To add your iMovie Trailer Seesaw use the URL from YOUTUBE
• Title your entry in Seesaw iMovie Trailer

This should be a review since you read the Getting Started with iMovie iBook and earned your iMovie Badge last week.

Check out my Wakelet for a list of site to get photos. https://wke.lt/w/s/ryHhb. Many time Google photos are not great quality!!!

1. Make sure your movie trailer has an appropriate title. iMovie Trailer is not a title, the title should reflect the content of your movie, what is it about?
   
2. Make sure your name is in the credits. It is really about the only thing in credits you need to worry about changing.

Points breakdown

• 75 points for iMovie Trailer added to Seesaw via the LINK tool using your Youtube URL.

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