Making a silent film

Hi Pin:

I understand what you are talking about. One way would be to create the frame in Photoshop and import it into iMovie.

Dan Slagle has filed away somw older imovie backgrounds that you can download for free. Perhaps, with a bit of changing, you could use one of them? Look Here:

http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/backgrounds/index4.html

Sue

Pin,

Sounds like a fun project. Here's one way you might go about it.

Shoot your title cards live, much as they did in the old days.

If you have a video camera or still camera and tripod, just create the cards using a word processor. If you have Word, Microsoft offers a ton of online line clip art. I'm sure you can find an appropriate border.

Then tape the cards to a wall and shoot them.

Don't worry that the text is black and background is white. You can fix that with X-Ray, a free plugin from GeeThree.

http://www.geethree.com/slick/free.html

If you make your whole movie black and white and apply the Aged Film effect I think you'll get the vintage look you're going for,

Matt

Wow Matthew-great ideas!

Sue

A low tech look requires some low tech techniques.

Before I had a scanner, I used to stick old photos on the wall and shoot them with my digital camera. It worked great!

Matt

I used to stick old photos on the wall and shoot them with my digital camera

Glad to hear someone else has done that! LOL!

Sue

Pin,

my website "How Did You Do THAT?" is still under (heavy) construction, but maybe you get some inspirations...:

Silent Movie effect

(don't bookmark (yet), adress will change!)

You are very welcome Pin!

Sue

Pin,

You're welcome.

Good luck with your project!

Matt

making member of a church smile?

wow, mission accomplished 😉

thanks for The Yellow One!