Subtitles of the Movie

As you can see I've hopped over to the world of GarageBand, but before I start to think about the music, which I want very, very plain and simple, let's hop back over to iMovie and listen to the entire trailer so we can see how the audio sounds. So I'm just going to go ahead and press Play and you'll be able to imagine how boring something is without sound. As I tell all my students when I teach at college and stuff, watch the movie Jaws or Friday the Thirteenth or any scary movie like Alien, without the audio and you'll notice that you're not quite as tense. You're not quite as scared because that music means everything Ð especially Friday the Thirteenth. If you're walking around in Friday the Thirteenth and you hear choo choo choo, jas, jas, jas, ah ah ah, Jason's right around the corner Ð you might want to run fast. But without that sound we don't get that visual cue. We don't get that scary, oh man, he's right around the corner feeling. Same thing with Jaws, you know, the girl swimming in the water and without the music hey, let's thing you know she's like spasming, we don't know what's going on. So, like did she get a cramp in her leg, what's going on? But when you hear the bu-dum, bu-dum bu-dum, ba-doo, ba-doo, dum dum dum dum dum dum dum, da da da da da da it's scarier. So, let's go ahead and watch this. I'll press Play and you'll see how important the sound is. So far snooze festival. They are everywhere. They are hungry. They are hungry bunnies. Hungry Bunnies 4. They want more. Starts Friday in theaters everywhere. Under 17 not admitted without parent or guardian. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah. Thank you very much. OK. So, we have our trailer and what we need to do now is add some music. I'm going to choose something very, very simple like a string or a piano. So let's go to Strings and I think I'm going to just try something like this one. Now if you go to my website, Diehardstudio.com, you'll notice that I use this one for my Tell-Tale Heart animation trailer. And I think it's kind of a cool 1800s kind of sound and it also lends itself very well to horror, but I'm going to choose this one so we can modify it by using some of the editing tools. So let's go ahead and drag Orchestral Strings 3 into a new track. And I'm also going to hop back over to iMovie real fast to see the length of this entire production. So we have about 40 seconds of a trailer. Fine. That's all I need to know. And what I'm going to do is play this, and we're going to slow this down. So we're going to go to the Editing Tools by clicking on the Edit Icon. We're going to drag the Pitch all the way this way, and we're going to play around with some of the timing. So I have it on a Quarter Note right now. Let's see what it sounds like. Much better, I think. It's kind of got a little mood to it. That's all we really need. Something like that. Something very slow and something that just drags on. So let's go ahead and grab the top right corner and just extend this out for a little while. So, you just want to have enough so that we can repeat it if we need to in our trailer. So let's see what we have here. I'm going to Rewind, press Play. Interestingly enough that repeat that's so obvious would work very well with this trailer. Typically I would never have something that sounds so obvious like this, but this actually sounds good to me. So let's go ahead and save this to our Desktop by choosing Export Song to Disk and I'm going to go ahead and export this to my Desktop and we'll just call it Hungry Song and click Save. And now let's go ahead and bring this into our iMovie project, so let me go to my Desktop and I'm going to drag this song right into the entire region like this, and let go of the mouse, because I don't want to put it on a clip. I want it to play the whole way through. And now let's go ahead and see what it sounds like. So we'll go back to our beginning and hopefully it sounds cool. Let me turn that down just a little bit, so let me choose this clip here and I'm going to click up here in this little symbol, and choose Audio Adjustments. I think it's a tad loud and it's going to take over the clip. And then I'm going to click Done, and try again. I still think it's too loud. I just want it to be noticeable but not that much. Let's try that now. Much better. They are everywhere. They are hungry. They are hungry bunnies. Hungry Bunnies 4. They want more. Starts Friday in theaters everywhere. Under 17 not admitted without parent or guardian. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah blah. Thank you very much. Very cool. Although the music is still too loud you could just reduce that a little bit more. So that's, that's it! We went ahead and created an entire movie clip using a wide assortment of tools inside of iMovie and also had a little bit of help from GarageBand. So I hope you had fun with this project, and got some ideas, got a couple of quick techniques, and of course, make a better film than I just did.