1. Go to a site with commercial movie
trailers, such as
http://www.hd-trailers.
net, to download a trailer. Some sites will have an application for
doing so, while others can be collected with
Real Player
Downloader or iTunes.
2. Convert the downloaded trailer to .avi (if it's .flv or .mov, etc.)
Use
Pazera-Software
tools for Windows, or find your own free 'something to .avi
converter' online for Windows or Mac.
3. Load the .avi file into Live Movie Maker (for various versions of
Windows) or iMovie for Mac.
4. Click Tools/Narrate Timeline to add your spoken commentary on the
voice track (over the video sound track). Prepare some notes to read
from so that it
flows better. With Mac, you may need to record the sound track
separately on
Audacity
or
SoundTap, and
then add it to the video file.
5. Click Tools/Audio Levels to make the movie soundtrack softer than
your voice. (On other tools, this feature may be done by directly
moving the audio lines.) This is key!
6. Save the movie as .avi (
Save as...
in the location you choose).
7. Upload to Youtube (you'll need a Youtube account - free)
8. In Youtube add annotations as desired (see Youtube help for how to
do this -- it's not hard). If you are using another archive site, be
sure students know about such translation tools as
Babel Fish.
9. Get the link and post it on Facebook, Twitter, your TeacherTube
account, etc., for your students to access easily.