{"id":2758,"date":"2013-09-11T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T19:37:40","slug":"a-trailer-for-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/09\/11\/a-trailer-for-two\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trailer For Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xdHvqyUd0Jo\">Rockylou Productions Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdHvqyUd0Jo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RLP_Creativity_GIF.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2772\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/09\/11\/a-trailer-for-two\/rlp_creativity_gif\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RLP_Creativity_GIF.gif?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RLP_Creativity_GIF\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RLP_Creativity_GIF.gif?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2772 alignright\" alt=\"RLP_Creativity_GIF\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RLP_Creativity_GIF.gif?resize=300%2C200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>During week 2 the DS106 <a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/tdc607\/\">Daily Create TDC607 <\/a>challenged us to create an exciting movie trailer for our DS106 website and use &#8220;the voice&#8221;. \u00a0Wanting to make the most efficient use of my creative time, I decided to modify the project so that I could use the art I created in real life. \u00a0So I made a more professional looking trailer to highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/about\/\">Rockylou Productions as a whole<\/a> and how it is actualizing our vision of cultivating creativity and raising visions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I had started out contemplating how I could make the trailer with iMovie. \u00a0But the only semi-workable option was to use the version I had on my iPad. I skipped upgrading my desktop version to iMovie 11, which was supposed to have that functionality\u00a0(I still have &#8217;09)\u00a0after reading the absolutely horrible reviews given by current users. \u00a0So I did a trusty Google search on creating movie trailers and found a YouTube video tutorial on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/q-GOpbVWhCI\">How to Create a Movie Trailer For Free<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-GOpbVWhCI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That led me to a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/flixpress.com\/\">Flixpress.Com<\/a>. There you could choose from a number of trailer templates. \u00a0I checked out the free ones and chose the Icy Spin T9 template which allowed me to have 8 images, and title text at the beginning and end of my trailer. \u00a0In theory this should have been a no-brainer. Just pop the pictures in and away you go. \u00a0But no&#8230;. that&#8217;s hardly ever the case.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2761\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ObruniTrailer_350px.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2761\" data-attachment-id=\"2761\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/09\/11\/a-trailer-for-two\/obrunitrailer_350px\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ObruniTrailer_350px.jpg?fit=600%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ObruniTrailer_350px\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ObruniTrailer_350px.jpg?fit=600%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2761 \" alt=\"ObruniTrailer_350px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ObruniTrailer_350px.jpg?resize=210%2C122\" width=\"210\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ObruniTrailer_350px.jpg?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ObruniTrailer_350px.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockylouproductions.com\/Obruni.html\">Obruni Podcasts Link<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Choosing my eight images was pretty easy. \u00a0I wanted to highlight the my Rockylou Productions projects that exemplified &#8220;Cultivating Creativity&#8221; and &#8220;Raising Visions&#8221;. \u00a0Once found I needed to format them to the requested 600 X 400 px within Photoshop CS5. But upon preview I found out the Icy Spin T9 template actually crops the images to 600 X 349 px. \u00a0Fortunately most of the images could be cropped without a problem. \u00a0Only one, Obruni, had to be modified significantly to make it fit correctly. I ended up creating quite a few draft versions before things clicked for me. \u00a0Maybe if I&#8217;d paid for the pro version I would have had more editing capabilities with my project, but for free I had to start over again from the beginning every time. \u00a0PAIN!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Saving your file puts it into the system for processes and in a minute or two they send you an e-mail that lets you know your video is ready for preview and downloading. \u00a0For free you get 640 X 480 SD resolution. \u00a0NOT IN MY WORLD! I ended up paying $2 to have an HD version made, since I wanted to import it into Adobe Premiere Elements 11 to add a music track and the Rockylou Productions animated Logo\/ bumper at the end. \u00a0(I actually spent $4 because the photo order mysteriously shifted with the first purchase.) I made a conscious decision to not add &#8220;the voice&#8221; as I felt it would have been a distraction. \u00a0It reminds me of an anecdote I heard recently from a DS106 talk (sorry I can&#8217;t remember which one, either <a title=\"Gardner Campbell talking with ds106 UMW students in 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/35725477\">Gardner Campbell<\/a> or <a title=\"Jim Groom TEdx-NYED Talk April 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/9EFMMghmp8U\">Jim Groom<\/a>) about a kindergarten teacher whose students always had the best art projects in school. When asked how she did it, she said she knew when to take it away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re interested I&#8217;ve included below an overview from previous post on how the animated logo was made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m pleased with the final product and have already posted it on my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockylouProductions\">Rockylou Productions page<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Music: &#8220;Find Your Style&#8221;, Newline variation, by John Defaria<br \/>\nSmart Sound Personal Use License purchased from the Vimeo Music Store for $1.99<\/p>\n<p><strong>=&gt;Rockylou Productions Animated Logo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\" alt=\"RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLP_Logo_27lvs_Bw-Col.png?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>T<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">he\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ijXdJUkqUrU?t=5m58s\">Rockylou Productions animated logo<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0at the very end of the video was created by incorporating a dissolve transition between two logo images designed by Amber Lockridge. \u00a0Transitioning from b&amp;w to color with a slight increase in the size of the color graphic by 1% \u00a0is meant to give the illusion of growth and expansion, an important value statement for\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"Link to Rockylou Productions main website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockylouproductions.com\/\">Rockylou Productions<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IntroMusic_RLProductions.mp3\">audio logo for Rockylou Productions<\/a>\u00a0was made with GarageBand and a simple \u201cD\u201d chord that I played on my 12-string guitar. \u00a0I took the original recording and added a Bright Guitar effect to the basic track. \u00a0I then duplicated the original track four times, and added dimensionality to the chord by adding a Lunar Bounce to two (panning each slightly left and right) and a Swirling Echo effect to the two remaining tracks, also panning them slightly left and right. With the addition of the Ambient \u2013 Wide Spaces effect to the master track the memorable\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IntroMusic_RLProductions.mp3\">audio logo for Rockylou Productions<\/a>\u00a0was born.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IntroMusic_RLProductions.mp3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"RLPChord_GB\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RLPChord_GB.png?resize=625%2C430\" width=\"625\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to Rockylou Productions Trailer &nbsp; During week 2 the DS106 Daily Create TDC607 challenged us to create an exciting movie trailer for our DS106 website and use &#8220;the voice&#8221;. \u00a0Wanting to make the most efficient use of my creative time, I decided to modify the project so that I could use the art I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,460,6],"tags":[197,466],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-create","category-ds106","category-video","tag-talkingheadless106-2","tag-tdc607"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zfrO-Iu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}