Once you’ve created a short film and put all your hard work into it, you need to build anticipation for your family blockbuster. After all, it’s a well-established tradition to create one (or more) trailers to lead the way for your film… although no one’s ever truly explained why they’re called trailers—aren’t trailers supposed to trail, not lead?
In any case, creating a trailer is an art in itself. You have to pick the right music, select the appropriate clips, and not show too much (otherwise, there’s no reason to see the actual movie), but reveal enough to make people look forward to it and get excited about the story.
You’ll be pleased to know that you don’t actually need to think too much about this: iMovie ’11 comes with its own trailer-making factory. Just add the clips in place, type in some information, and you’re good to go.
A lot of the technology behind creating trailers in iMovie centers on the program’s ability to recognize if and how many people are in each shot. Without this facility, making such projects wouldn’t be as fun, or as fast—as you’ll see…
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CaptainV45
January 31, 2012 at 7:40am
According to my Grandparents (I asked them the same question about trailers when I was young), the movie going experience went like this:
NEWSREEL
CARTOON
FEATURE
TRAILERS
Credits used to be at the beginning of films so when the film ended trailers to lure you back next week would roll.
