My Week and Movie Trailer

On Wednesday this week I wrote the synopsis of the story for my movie. I also started my movie poster on Photoshop - and needed some refreshing of the memory there!!! I tried to start my trailer but couldn't get it to work on iMovie. I think it's because I tried to import a Quicktime movie into iMovie?. Anyway, I couldn't just add in the separate scenes again because I didn't have Lauren's part of the movie.

On Thursday and Friday, I worked on the trailer for my movie. Lauren was there so I got her scene and put it into iMovie along with my scenes. I then chose another song - Airplanes - for the trailer because it was nice and really gets the emotions going. I also didn't want to have the same song for my trailer and movie. I then thought of some phrases to put into the trailer that will make people more interested and want to see it and added them in. I also cut down the clips so that only the really good bits were in it and ended the trailer on the scene where Dan and Lucy break up. Here is my trailer. I hope you like it!!

This Week

Over this week I have been exploring iWeb and just getting used to the program. Mr Powell also showed us some more handy techniques to make things easier and make our website look better.
I have also made a start on my website. I have looked around on other websites that have cool font and have a couple of options for the title of the movie. I have also cut a whole heap of pictures (around 25) from my movie so that I can have a gallery page on my website. I have also created the base for my website and have around 5 or 6 pages, so I'm going quite well.
Today Mr Powell got us to set up Dropbox, so that we will not have to use our USBs anymore. I'm not quite sure about it but I'm sure that as soon as I start using it I'll get the hang of it.

How to Make Our Own Hyperlinks

- make hyperlinks active

- turn off display navigation menu
- copy and paste in an icon
- click on enable as a hyperlink
- link to an external page
- choose the page you want

worst thing you can do is make it all words - use pictures instead - e.g. for links

Some Stuff...

Mr Powell told us that our website must have:
-a front page
-trailer
-something about the characters
-synopsis of the story
-movie poster
-be at least 5 pages

These are my thoughts about what I will put in my trailer:
-show relationship start
-show relationship 'blossom'
-show break up and write 'will their relationship survive?' beforehand

Today Mr Powell went through iWeb and showed us some of the basics. I now know how to create a page, add photos and films and create hyperlinks.

Common things in Movie Websites

This term we are creating a website for our movie. We spent the first couple of days browsing official movie website and finding out what they have in common.

What movie websites have in common:

Front page before enter site:
-poster/picture
-name of famous actors above title
-title (in top left corner)
-watch trailer
-follow and share on twitter/facebook
-release dates / something to click on to buy tickets
-enter site

Next pages have:
-short reviews quoted on front/home page
-story synopsis (about the film)
-cast information
-filmakers information
-downloads like wallpapers/screensavers
-photos (gallery)
-characters information
-videos/clips