Editing process.

I wanted to talk about the process of editing and problems we had, how we got through thoses problems and also the good things about the software.Once the footage had been uploaded we went through each shot and wrote down which shots we liked and at what times to make things alot easier later on. Then we dragged the shots we liked into the editing/work area which is shown in the photo. we then editing/cut each individual shot which was written on the sheet and we also done them in order to how we wanted the trailer to look like. while we tried to get this to the standered we wanted it ment changing effects such as lighting,speed,colouring. To use these's effects we had to select them from the toolbars and drop down menus on the left hand side on the screen shot above. As the software was quiet complex we didnt quite know how to do this so had to fiddle around and make a few mistakes before we got the shot in the way we wanted. We mostly used the brightening tool and also to tools tospeed and slow down the shots to give a profesional look. By using this tool it allowed the trailer to look more fluent and that time hadnt gone forward or backwards unless we wanted it to appear like this. Because we shot the trailer all at night we didnt need to use the darken tool as it was dark enough to have the scary feel to it.After we had edited the first few shots we went back and looked over our detailed stroyboards to see if the editing was going to plan and aslo if we needed to do re-shots.Once we had put our shots in order to the shots we liked and wrote on the detailed story board we dragged the shots into the work area and started cutting. the mistake we made was that we started editing before we uploaded the two sound tracks and cut it to fit the music. So we had to roughly start the editing again after we heard the sound track and watched the shots at the same time.When we uploaded the sound tracks we knew that we didnt want the whole thing so we had to cut both of them to the times and the sections that we wanted from.To do this we used the Razor tool on the right hand side of premier pro and marked out the sections we needed to cut out. This was a very difficult and time consuming process as we needed to match the music to the cuts and also previous piece of music. This needed to be perfect so that the audience would assume the song was fluent and sounded correct when played to our trailer and the cuts. Although this was frustrating and errors were made at time, we learnt how to better our new skill and edited our sound track to how we wanted it to sound.Next we began adding in still title slides that displayed captions to help the target audience follow the storyline, also by the captions and the effects we done with them could make the trailers atmospher alot more edgy.Once we had our basic trailer with the shots in order with captions in the correct place we began to watch our trailer through and see what improvements needed to be made. this include things like fades and maybe more quick cut clean shots to perfect our trailer.

we edited in a few shots of famous film making company logos to first fill out a few seconds of the trailer but also make it look professional. the fades we used with them made it run smoothly.

The captions we wanted to add took us a while to figure out to do and also how to cross fade them,add colour to a certain part of the text ect. The most difficult was to fadeing them and making them appear with the music. the way we got round this was re-playing that part f the trailer and keep changing the text around to see what could match.

We wanted the title to make a big impact so that the audience remember it. So i made the font and outer glow on photoshop and put it in as a picture onto the editing softwear. Then we made the picture fade in and out very slowly which gave a great look and went really well with the music. This part of the editing was very easy compared to the captions we had trouble with earlyer.

After the title we wanted a last action shot which would stick in the audiences minds as would first few shots like any trailer. so after the title we edited in a shot of jade getting dragged by her hair. this shot had talking over it and also was too fast for the music that we was going for. so in the editing we had to remove the talking, slow the shot down and put new music over it. this as difficult

The last shot of the website and information was easy and the same construct as the title yet not as big and effective as the title.