Editing- first part
Once we had filmed all our footage we began to edit our film in school on the Apple Mac's. Firstly we needed to transfer our footage from the video camera to the Final Cut programme, we struggled with this and had many problems mainly because we filmed on our own camera and not the schools. For some reason our footage would not import to final cut as simple as we thought, so therefore we had to call the schools technician for help. The technician managed to import it onto another programme and then transfer it to final cut. After we had overcome this trouble we began to select scenes to add to our trailer.
We began by downloading the Institution that we chose, which was Paramount Vantage and then we used Focus Features. This is for the first few seconds of our film so that it fits the conventions of every trailer created. We then began to watch some of our filming and started to cut bits out and place them on the timeline. It took us a while to select certain parts, as there was a lot of filming and many parts that went wrong or had continuity. Once we had chose our first few clips we decided to add in transitions between each clip so that when we play our trailer the scenes will flow more smoothly into each other. We chose to use dissolve and Fade in and Out as these were the most common ones that we found in our trailer research. We used a lot of lessons to edit our trailer and each lesson would add in more clips to our timeline. The next stage we needed to complete within editing was the music.
Editing- second part
The next stage of editing was to add in the titles to our trailer. We decided to put the titles nearer the end of the trailer as we thought it would look more effective. To create our titles we used Live Type, at first this was very complex as we had not used this programme before to create titles, but eventually we got to know it better and managed to create titles. We needed to make 4 titles one for the actress's name, one for the Actors name, one for the title and one extra that we added in that we have previously seen used in other trailers such as "Like Crazy". We chose a curly but sharp font and chose the colour of pink/dark red so that it would stand out again the background we have chose for the titles. The background we decided to use was a short clip of YouTube, it is called Bokeh and its lights that have been blurred and move around. We thought this background looked very effective and that our titles would look interesting and engaging against it. For each title we used the same font, colour and background to kept the colour scheme the same. The colour we used also represents our genre of Romance. Once we had created our titles we inserted the clips onto the timeline to view them, they were very good but we wanted the words to fade in and out on the background. To do this we went back onto the Title programme and managed to find effects and changed the titles to fade in and out. This then looked more improved and we were happy with the way they looked.
Now that we have recorded the voice over for our trailer we can insert it onto our timeline. This was fairly easy as we didn’t need to cut it or change the recording. Once we inserted it we had to change the volume of “Give me love” and decrease it so that the voice over was on top and louder than the other song. After we had put the voice over in when she finishes speaking we had to fade in the chorus of the background song so that it flowed smoothly with no sudden jerks.
Editing – Third part
As Sarah and I had free periods in the week we decided to use our time to edit our trailer and put on the new footage that we had from the last filming session. So far in our trailer we have many gaps that need to be completed in order for our trailer to be finished, so we added in all the new footage we had. Once again we found it slightly hard importing the footage but we managed to do it once we had found the lead we needed. It took a lot of time and patience to edit this trailer as there was a lot to do in such little time. When editing the new footage we had to increase the brightness on some shots especially the night ones as they were too dark to see what was actually happening. By changing the brightness it allowed us to see the footage more clearly but it gave it a slight blur. Even though the footage had a slight blur we were pleased because it gave it a misty effect which compliments the creepiness of the actor in the filming. The next part of editing our film was to add in the Attachment production clip,we created the Attachment Production our self using the software iMovie.
Our film is now complete and we just needed to perfect it, as we watched our trailer several times we were not happy with the titles we had created as the text was not very clear and the quality was fairly bad. So we decided with the time we had left to re- create the titles again on Live Type. We used the same font and text but changed the colour to a dark grey/black and the background to a slightly darker Bohek. Once we had completed these our film was now perfected and we are extremely pleased with the outcome and hope to get a good grade for the work we have accomplished.
Below is our new titles
Below is our new titles
Below is our billing block in our trailer.
As you can see at the bottom we added in our production company and the institutions that we used in our trailer, this is to represent the companies we used for our trailer. By adding these to our billing block it makes it look more effective and professional.
In conclusion editing was the most challenging part of creating a Film Trailer. The software Final Cut was also very hard to get used to as the previous year we used Pinnacle which was very simple. However we soon got the hang of it and managed to produce excellent work. We worked well together and each put in our own time and effort to get this trailer perfect.
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