This assignment requires you to make a spy movie trailer, and I decided to make E.T. the main character. When I first started editing the E.T. clips I was trying to set up the family as murders and ET as the spy. Once I started piecing everything together I noticed it was looking less like a spy movie and more like a horror movie. At that point I just said screw it and I added all the other sound effects that go along with scary trailers like these. Since its Halloween today I thought it would be fitting to switch the assignment up a little bit.

MY FAVORITE ASSIGNMENT I’VE DONE YET! Since I suck at video editing or at least thought I did, I am actually really proud of this trailer I made. This assignment was 5 stars and I took movie clips from Hitman: The Secret Agent (2017) from YouTube. I cut so many scenes from this movie and downloaded them on my phone. i went through all of them and cut and trimmed and even deleted some. I then organized each clip in my photos in the correct order that I wanted them to go. After so much time of doing this, I put them in my Video Splicer app where I cropped each video to make some of the scenes more discrete, I added a title page and a credits screenshot from the option of adding text to my video on the app, and then I had everything together. This trailer actually looks real and I’m very proud of it. I chose this particular movie because it literally has the story line of my spy. So in this trailer, Joe is the bald headed guy and the girl who is hurt and dying is his wife. This leads him to kill and go after all of his enemies and seek justice. I added in all of the scenes of fire, fighting, killing, and revenge that I could find to really create the story I want Joe to have. In my opinion, Joe is a hitman and a secret agent and that’s why this came out so perfectly and really reflects my character. I also wanted to incorporate an inspiration for other DS106 students to watch. I wanted them to see and have an idea of what their secret agent could do. So on the first slide I said ” This is how cool your DS106 story could be…” I did this so going into our final weeks, if we were to create a story, I could inspire them with some ideas. This trailer tells the story of Joe and exemplifies the theme of a strong secret agent. Here is my video!

Okay I’m not gonna lie, this movie trailer is pretty funny…I don’t know if its just me because I love my pets, but regardless the trailer is A1.

I saw this assignment about creating a movie trailer, and I thought this is probably the coolest thing and still within my range of capabilities in iMovie. iMovie has a whole laundry list of templates that you can use to make a trailer, by simply inserting certain shots that you have taken, words that you want, and music in the trailer. The learning curve wasn’t too bad to figure out the ropes of this template, and it was a lot of fun.

I first just grabbed some shots of my pets, and little snippets of clips of them playing around. They all love each other a lot (my two dogs and cat) but I intentionally got some shots where it looked like my two pups were ganging up against the EVIL CHARLOTTE (I should’ve picked a more evil name for my cat. But she’s such a charlotte, you know?) along with some of her just looking evil (and maybe a little cute) on her own, sleeping. And behold! I made a trailer. I stuck with the spy theme, but I also tried to incorporate my character, Helga Schwarz, by making her the executive producer and giving her some credit in the after credits. After all, she is a part of me…so we did it together. Below you’ll find the embedded trailer for Never Trust A Cat, coming out Fall 2019 at a theater near you! (not really).

-Caty