Editing Software

When we began editing our footage we started by using adobe premiere pro, however half way through editing our school purchased Apple Macs. Therefore we transferred our footage to the Macs because we thought that it would enable us to produce a more professional piece as the Macs provided a larger variety of editing tools.

Firstly, we uploaded our footage from adobe to the Macs, in one full piece, however when trying to edit we experienced some difficulty because this meant that we had to split the sections we wanted in the correct place and it was taking to much time. As a result of this we went back to adobe and uploaded the footage into separate sections. We found this much easier and less time consuming.

Secondly, we added in transitions and edited colour, contrast and brightness to some shots, to create certain effects that we were aiming for. We then split shots, to enable us to add in transitions between shots, to make shots shorter and snappy. For example we thought that the shot in the ally way was too long so added in a few fade to black transitions to make it more conventional to a teaser trailer. We also changed the speed of some shots to emphasis certain themes in our plot. We added in a wide range of sound effects that we felt would add impact to our trailer. Such as: telephone ring, footsteps, dog barking and heart beat. We changed the length of the sound effects to fit the length of the shots. We also adjusted the sound levels, as some were supposed to be ambient and others more deliberate and noticeable.

From Garage Band, we added music into our trailer. We cut the music to fit certain shots. We also cut it where we wanted the music to drop on a specific scene. We adjusted the volume of the music to the level we thought was appropriate and added fades in various places.

We used the font panel to add in: titles, ‘Coming Soon’, the film website address and the classification preview screen. We used different fonts, colours, background colours and font transitions.