How to Create a Book Trailer Using iMovie
Kelsey Hiatt
BOOK TRAILERS
“Students and teachers are making trailers to do things like demonstrate their learning, explain vocabulary words, document experiments, preview novels or textbook chapters, summarize historical events and promote school activities.”
-Blog post from www.learninginhand.com
Step 1
Tap the iMovie app to begin creating a new project
Step 2
Tap the + sign to create a new project
Step 3
Choose Trailer to continue to the movie trailer templates
Step 4
Choose your template- I chose “Adrenaline” for the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry
Step 5
Begin with the overview of your trailer.
Step 6
Now work on the Storyboard for your trailer. This is where you add photo/video and text.
Photos
For the photos added to my trailer, I used Haiku Deck- an online presentation tool.
www.haikudeck.com
Editing Photos in iMovie
After choosing your photo, you can zoom in or out and adjust the animation.
Done!
The editing is done along the way, so when
you’re finished, preview and publish!