Of the iOS app updates Apple released with the new iPad, iMovie may not be the flashiest update, but it does gain one nice new feature: movie trailers.
Now, when creating a new project, you can choose instead to create a trailer. There are nine different templates: Retro, Romance, Scary, Superhero, Swashbuckler, Narrative, Fairy Tale, Expedition, and Bollywood. Apple has also commissioned a set of scores for each of these templates. On their own, the scores aren’t anything I’d choose to listen to in iTunes, but they do provide decent accompaniment for the trailers.
Once you’re in the editor, you can fill in an outline (movie title, actors, studio name, basic end credits) or illustrate your trailer in storyboard mode. Apple’s storyboard mode is strict: It tells you how many…