Editing our trailer

The first thing we had to do was to transfer our footage from the cameras onto the computer. There was a few complications with this as at first we were going edit the footage on the Macs in college. this proved a problem for other groups wanting to do this as only the images were transferring and none of the sound. We didn't want to risk this happening with ours because we have a small amount of dialogue in ours. We uploaded all the footage straight onto Isaacs apple laptop and started to put it into final cut pro.

The next step was to look back at our storyboard and put our film footage into order. We chopped and changed some of this to suit the images we had taken. Not all of the shots we planned to do were captured as they proved more difficult then we thought. We overcame this situation by taking different shots from different angles but of the same image to fill the space.

Once all the footage was in order we cut of the extra parts and then started to structure our film trailer. We wrote down where we wanted certain cuts to go at the times. Once all of the cutting had been done we just had to put in the special effects and fades. By using Final Cut Pro we were able to add in different effects like 'sepia tone' and dark/light fades between shot changes. All of the different camera angles look good especially when the actors are on the bikes. We used fast paced editing to put these different shots together as this is more of an action scene.

After the bike scene there is a short documentary moment when two of the friends pick up the camera and film themselves running away from the third friend into the mine. for this shot we edited on a frame around the camera screen and the word 'recording' with a red circle next to it just inside the lines. This shows that it is being recorded by them. The most challenging part of editing was cutting in the image of a black figure stood just inside the mine entrance with the light coming from behind. We then mixed this image with one of a 'fuzzy' TV screen. (At the end of our image editing we added the sound of the TV screen over the top of the music)

The music track over the top of the trailer is one that we found is from a royalty free music website which is copyright free and free of charge. The music track is quiet and eerie which goes perfectly well with our trailer. We would have liked to use an actual artists music track but we couldn’t because of copyright legislation.
With all of our editing almost done we have realised that we need a stronger ending to our trailer like most pyschological trailers we have researched have. We have scheduled to go back to where we filmed previously and take a last shot. We can then finish our editing and then complete our blogs and other parts of the promotional package.