Creating the Final Trailer

The aim of this was to incorporate all of the scenes that had been created thus far into iMovie (a Mac tool used to create short movies) and add a backing track.

To achieve this, the objectives were to import all of the movie clips into the development tool along with adding the James Bond theme tune. A theme will also be chosen so that it appears to the reader that they are viewing a James Bond briefing folder.

First, on the file menu of iMovie, the import button was selected and all of the movie clips were highlighted so that it was added to the folder to choose between for the final menu. The software package is very user friendly as you simply drag and drop the clips into the order that they need to appear in and the software package creates the transitions between the two.

Once all of the clips are in the current order, right click on the section with all of the clips in order and select project properties. This will open a dialog box showing the different layouts that the software package offers. To create the effect that it is a mission brief, select photo album. This then automatically adds a titles and credits section to the trailer. On the titles, the name of the film "You Only Live Twice" is edited into the clip along with my SID number. On the credits the producers of the James Bond films were edited in here so that it says "A Saltzman and Broccoli Production". This was to try and keep it authentic.

When the time was calculated it was a second short of 30 seconds, however, the title of the film disappeared too quickly for the audience to view, therefore a freeze frame was added which kept it on stage for a second longer than it originally was going to be and works a lot better now.

To add the music to the clip, the theme tune was saved in a folder which was then drag and dropped into the editor. The software package then edits the music to the clips. The default fade out was a little too abrupt still, so this was adjusted so that it fades out over a period of approximately four seconds which works much better than the original.

To complete the trailer it was then exported as two types of movie clip just in case the viewer doesn't have a compatible software to play it. Although, this being said, it has been played on an iMac with no problems so there shouldn't be any issues with this. The file was exported as a .mov file which runs QuickTime and also a .mp4 file which opens in iTunes.