For this assignment, I was suppose to make a movie trailer. The assignment bank displayed it as a ‘western’ theme, but I thought I would change it to fit the class’ theme. I decided to make a movie trailer based on my character, Margo Humphrey. In the movie Margo is a secret agent in WWII having to avenge the death of her best friend at the hands of the Nazi Germans.

One of the other requirements on the assignment was to use a white board to make the trailer. I used the white board on the fridge in my apartment. I propped my computer on top of it so I could follow along with the rough script I wrote to go along with it. I recorded it on my phone and then uploaded it to iMovie, the worst video editing app I have ever used, and used the voice memo app on my phone to record the voice over. I really wanted to add sound effects to make it look more like a movie trailer, but iMovie crashed every time I tried to import a clip.

Hey everyone, here’s my storyboard that I created for a short modern western movie. The time period that I imagined it being in was the early 70s, so not exactly modern, but not ancient. The original clip that I made was 36 minutes long. Obviously, this was super long. Nobody would sit down and watch that, so because of this, I uploaded the clip to iMovie to edit it and speed the video to 2x speed.

The hang-up that I encountered was that even at 2x speed, the video was still 18 minutes long. I had to export that clip, re-import it, and then speed it up again. This landed the video at 9 minutes, and then I had to redo the process once more to cut the video to a bite-sized 4.5 minutes.

Overall, this was a good 4-star assignment. I enjoyed doing it, and I hope it’s a short film that you think you’d watch.