PE1_iMovie

When using iMovie, sometimes I am not satisfied with the text feature within the program. I have experimented with a variety different ways to bring text into my projects; however, I've never experimented with making a motion text movie via iMovie. That is... until today. I created a simple text transition movie with a stark solid black background and dramatic light gray text. For my subject I chose to use the famous "Out, out brief candle!" soliloquy from Macbeth (I'm obviously in a cheerful mood).

I started by creating my text slides in powerpoint.

After creating the layout for each slide

I then brought each slide into iMovie. The cool thing about using photos with iMovie is that, unlike video, you can just drag and drop them into your project right from your desktop or wherever they are located. Next, to create the text motion I had to manipulate the Ken Burns effect to get the desired look I wanted for each statement. This is easy to do by sizing the green start and red finish windows once the Ken Burns editing has been opened.

Then, to finish it off I added a cross-dissolve transition between each slide.

I also added some music for mood. I chose this particular song because of a Japanese themed production of Macbeth I once attended.

Here what it looks like.