Digital Video Apprentice

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Get in on the ground floor of one of the world's biggest and most cutting edge industries- making movies! First, you'll practice your editing chops by cutting together a video montage. If you can do that, move on to editing a trailer and keep your ride through the film world rolling.


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100 Level - No experience necessary

When creating a trailer you must convey interesting information about a movie in a short amount of time.

Imagine you’ve been hired by a film company to create a trailer. Here is the story you are using to create your trailer: In the beginning, a nuclear incident occurs near a lizards nest.  The lizards nest is contaminated by radiation.  In the middle, a boat is attacked by an enormous sea creature, “Godzilla”. Godzilla travels to an American city and leaves a path of destruction along the way. In the end, Godzilla is chased onto a bridge and becomes trapped in the steel suspension cables.  Godzilla is attacked by aircraft and falls to the ground.

Steps:
1. Use 7-10 images from the “Godzilla” challenge resources and sequence the images to fit the written story.  Sequence in film means to put in an order of what happens in the beginning, what happens in the middle and what happens at the end. 

2. Add a title to each image.  

-Your title should be one sentence that explains what is happening in each photo

-Each photo must remain on screen 4-8 seconds. 

3. Add transitions between each photo. A transition in a video or film is an editing technique which one shot is instantaneously replaced on screen by another. 

4. Upload your trailer.

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