For my first Video Assignment Bank project I opted to the mash-up trailers assignment, which seems to be a popular choice. It’s actually a lot of fun! Although, warning it does take a bit of your time. I found this assignment was a great way to reintroduce myself to iMovie (I had only really used it once before to make our DS106 trailer). The iMovie platform is fairly user friendly. I am sure there are a lot of other cool features I could have played around with, but for this assignment I wanted to get the basics down.

My first task was to pick movies. In all my trailer uses three – The Breakfast Club (which contains the majority of visual and audio clips), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Sixteen Candles. After made it so each trailer would be easily accessible to me as I went to edit in iMovie. Every audio clip and/or video clip was trimmed from the full length trailers (every.time.). I’m sure there is probably an easier way of doing it, but I was already on a role and didn’t want to add any new information.

I watched and rewatched each trailer a multitude of times and mentally noted clips I thought could work together. It was nice to have my phone and laptop so that I could watch the individual trailers on my phone and then create and piece together the clips in iMovie on my laptop. That minimized the number of tabs I needed to flip between to complete the assignment.

There are quiet a bit of detached audio flies that are overlaid on video clips from different movies. There are also a few instances where I had to detach the audio file from the video clip in order to blend the audio into the next clip. I slowed a few visual clips down (click on the clip, there is a line with two dot icons on the top of the clip in the editing section and drag it to the left or right to manipulate the speed – it works for audio too) so that the audio files could run the length of the video.

The biggest challenge was audio. While I lowered the volume in the Ferris Bueller clips, but the background music clearly does not match the upbeat Breakfast Club music. I unfortuently, could not figure out a way to try to fix that. My guess is that I would likely need to deconstruct the audio in a different audio editing software to do so.

It’s by NO means perfect, but I did have a good time creating it!

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I had a lot of fun with this assignment. We were instructed to combine two different movie trailers to create one trailer. I decided to combine “A Quiet Place” and “IT”. I am honestly not the biggest horror movie person, but I have seen both of these movies and I thought combining two horror movies could be a lot of fun. And I was right.

I started off my getting the trailers I wanted to use. I then loaded them into iMovie and cut the parts of the trailers I wanted and then combined them, using the audio from “A Quiet Place” trailer. I am actually really happy with how it turned out and think the two trailers fit together really nicely.

Here’s my movie trailer!

(PS This is a 5 star assignment which means I am at 10 stars total so I’m done with assignments for the week!)

This is one of my favorite assignments, for this you had to mashup two different movie trailers. I figured I would take some gruesome movie and pair it with childrens movie audio or vice versa. Eventually I settled on Hellraiser and The Little Mermaid.

I kept cutting clips and moving them to fit with all the small jump scares in the audio which was almost perfect. The last 30 seconds of the video almost made itself without me doing anything to it. I cut so many clips from the back half of the video that every scene was moving fast enough to seem scary with trailer audio.

Create a trailer out of movie clips, tv show excerpts, news sources, viral videos, or even other trailers. Consider which pieces you are combining and what the new message is. Here is a template for a movie trailer green  screen intro. Have fun!!

Assignment Bank- Video Assignments

For this assignment, I chose to make a new trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron. I know the movie is a few years old, but it worked too well with the Pinocchio trailer.

The audio in the trailer is from the original Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, and I thought that it would be funny to play the Pinocchio trailer with the audio. Ultron is singing and referencing Pinocchio throughout the trailer, so I just added the wooden puppet. I made this trailer in iMovie using only the trailers for Pinocchio and Avengers.

The message for the trailer is no longer just about Pinocchio. Now, it’s about Pinocchio taking over the world, and the Avengers are trying to stop him.

It was really fun making this video. The hardest part about editing was trying to align the audio well with the video. There was significantly more audio from the trailer with the Avengers versus Pinocchio, so I did cut a lot of audio out. Most of the audio I cut was just music or Ultron talking. I did cut a short conversation between Iron Man and Black Widow out of the video also.

Since I wanted the trailer to mainly focus on Pinocchio, I did cut out some clips of just Jiminy Cricket. There were some points in the trailer where he was talking, but it did not fit with the audio for the Avengers, so his scenes did not make it in the final cut.

Hiya! So another mashup down! I decided to do the trailer mashup because it really stuck out to me when I was brainstorming ideas for the mashups. So I was thinking of different movies/tv shows that I could mash up and Frozen was the first thing that I came up with. Then I was thinking of something else that I could pair it with. Walking Dead came up as well and I thought I would give those two a try. I grabbed the trailer for Frozen and converted the YouTube file to an MP4 file to import to iMovie. Then the hard part was deciding which Walking Dead trailer to use. There are 5 seasons of the Walking Dead so to find which one fit the best I decided to try each season trailer. So I grabbed all 5 season trailers, converted them to the MP4 file then I went to iMovie and put each file as the background music to the Frozen trailer. For some reason I wanted to try the season 5 trailer first. So I added it to my storyboard in iMovie. I think this was the best one! Its not perfect but it matches up the most. There is time where there is talking and there isn’t a character there or there is a character “talking” but there isn’t any speaking. I decided to use the season 5 trailer because it matched well with a lot of the transitions in the Frozen trailer. So here is the final product! This was a fun assignment to do and it makes me think of other movies that could be mashed up.

When I saw this assignment, I knew this is one of the ones I wanted to complete. I am a huge fan of movies and I love going to the movie theater with family and friends to see them. I also love watching the trailers beforehand, so when I saw that we had to create a movie trailer of our own, I knew I wanted to do this one.

The most challenging part about making this trailer was figuring out what two movies to use. I first thought about trying to combine Fast & Furious with Ricky Bobby, but I found that too difficult. Then I was going to create a something with Will Ferrell in his basketball movie but I couldn’t think of another trailer to use. Then I came up with my Space Jam 2 trailer. After the video assignments before, I have become very familiar with the video software I use and it was very easy to put everything together. I was able to get the trailers off of YouTube and both videos were by Warner Brothers Entertainment Company.

Final Product:

I decided to combine the movie trailers of Space Jam and Thunderstruck. Space Jam is about Michael Jordan teaming up with the Looney Tunes and playing a huge basketball game against tome aliens who steal talent from NBA players. This movie is absolutely one of my all-time favorites and whenever I see it come on TV I will watch it. Thunderstruck is about Kevin Durant and a high school kid who meet at an OKC game and KD and the kid mistakenly switch talents, and the whole movie is about KD finding his game again and the kid leading his school team to state championships. I recently saw this movie and I thought it was pretty good. The reason I chose this trailer is I would rather make a Space Jam 2 about Kevin Durant instead of LeBron James, and secondly LeBron does not have a movie out. Space Jam is a childhood movie of mine and every time I watch it, it brings back memories of watching it with my sister in the car during trips when I was very little.

I really enjoyed this assignment, even though the preparation and thought process before creating it was a lot more difficult than the other assignments. I am very please with the final video and they way it looks and sounds. I felt like I was able to put it together to make it run smoothly and will be a fun video for people to enjoy.