Editing Trailer

For the editing process we used the program Adobe Premiere Pro. I have had some experience in using this program before for AS level when I created an opening sequence with a group. I was given the role as editor so I know the basics of using Premiere Pro, for example cutting and adding audio on top of the video clips. When we had finished filming and had all the clips we needed we needed to import them on to the computer, this was quite a long process as we had to choose which clips we needed to import and which clips we could discard and would not be in the final trailer. Going through this process made it easier in the long run as we had seperate clips for each scene and this made it easier when arrangingthem in order by referring to the story boards. There were a few problems with some of the clips, one of them had people in the frame who were not meant to be there (the scene where Ella and her friends are walking by the beach) so we had to clip out the long shot and go straight into the shot where Ella is looking around her. After we had arranged the clips in order we had to find some suitable music to overlay on to the trailer. We are lucky to have the resources in the library and used these two CDs 'Mystery, Horror, Suspense' and 'Directors Cuts: Suspense' (shown below, click to expand). For our trailer we used track 13 from 'DC: Suspense' this track gave a bold and challenging feel to the trailer which is what we wanted to represent the danger that Ella was in. And we used track 42 from 'Mystery, Horror, Suspense' for the running scene which gives a really eerie feel to the scene. We also had to download sound effects for example the phoneringing which we found from http://www.freesfx.co.uk

When adding the tracks we had to import them using Windows Media Player, ripped them in to the music library and then imported them in to Adobe Premiere Pro. Once they were in Premiere

Pro we could drag the track to whereever we wanted and there are also different audio slots available which made it possible to add more tracks and sound effects when we needed to do so. After we had dragged these tracks on to the timeline we could adjust the length and also the volume at specific parts of the trailerThe picture above shows us changing the volume level by clicking on the yellow line holding Alt to create a small white diamond and this allowed us to adjust the level. Increasing the volume when Caroline speaks (as she has a quite voice) and then decreasing the volume afterwards. With this clip we also had issues with noise, as we were filming by the beach and the wind was strong which affected the mic. However to overcome this we used the effects 'DeCrackler' and 'DeNoiser' in the audio effects provided by Premiere Pro. The picture below shows us adding titles in to our trailer we went to Title, New Title, Default Still and then we could edit and create titles to insert into the trailer. With this tool we added a glowing effect which is in theme with the genre and we used the colour red to give the feel of danger. Throughout the trailer we used the font 'Chiller' which we also used for our magazine cover and poster. This is creating a brand for the trailer and the keeping

the font the same will make it recognisable to the audience.

For some of the transitions with used 'Cross Dissolve', 'Dip to Black' and 'Dip to White.' We used 'Cross Dissolve' for our flashback scene, this gave a soft transition which is almost dream like. For the 'Dip to Black' and 'Dip to White' we used for some of the other tr

ansistion in the trailer to creat an edgy and unstable feel. For example the running scene shown below we used 'Dip to White' to represent a change in time. Also the bright sunlight really helped with the continuity when using the 'Dip to White'

The editing process for the trailer I found was quite a bit different from last year when working on the opening sequence, it was very much time consuming and sometimes hard to get around how to do things, for example I have now learnt how to use the different effects that are provided by Premiere pro. Discussion was also very important when editing and Beth and I had to compromise on many things as well as put across our own individual ideas. After we had edited all the basics me and Beth went over the trailer a number of times to make sure everything was edited to how we wanted, this took quite a long time as we kept finding small things that could be improved.