Then we I had to save it in a folder on the computer and import it in to Adobe Premiere Pro software, so all our footage would appear on the left hand side of the screen.
Once the footage was saved on the left hand side, I could click each recording to view it and decide which one I wanted to insert in to the timeline to use for our trailer. The ones that were no use could be deleted of the list so I didn’t get confused about which footage was what.Once I decided what clips I wanted to use I would judge roughly where to put them on the timeline e.g. the establishing shot would be near the beginning as an establishing shot sets the location of the trailer and conventionally goes at the beginning.
After we finally got the footage for a certain section of the trailer, I could arrange them in order so that we could see if we were happy with the way it looked. I found that being able to move more than one clip at a time by pressing shift and clicking on each individual clip or by using the mouse to highlight them all and move them to where we wanted them to go particularly helpful as we had to move around the footage several times. One of them being when we completed our middle section of editing before we finished editing the beginning therefore after we finished editing the beginning we could just move the whole middle section just behind the beginning footage rather than moving over 20 pieces of small footage. Below is an image of how all of our footage would have looked on the timeline whilst we was editing it:
Whilst editing a lot of the footage we used the razor blade tool, this tool was particularly useful as it cut down the unnecessary bits of the clips that we didn’t need and also helped us to create short pace clips to build tension in our horror trailer as tension is key to any horror trailer. We also used the dip to black effect on several different clips to add more effect and create a spooky look to our horror trailer; it also makes the transition between each shot look a lot sleeker.
After editing all the footage, we needed to add in captions to help the audience identify the storyline. We needed the caption to fit in nicely with the rest of our footage on the timeline along with the trailer and the theme. Therefore we inserted our captions on a black blood stained background to make them more effective and added red writing in the font Bison as these colours are conventional of many horror films and set the mood. To make the captions more appealing to the audience we used video effects to alter the motion and scale of the captions.We did this by double clicking on the selected caption, then clicking on video control effect that came up at the top of the page and then going to scale, where I added a point to make the beginning of the clip 30 and gradually added 11 other points increasing the scale every time. This made the captions begin small and gradually get bigger so it looked as if it was coming out of the screen.
Also a we felt we had to make the caption that informed the audience of the title of the film a little different as this is the caption we wanted to stand out most and the one we wanted them to remember the most. Therefore we amended the title properties and changed the gradient of the text.
We also dipped the captions to black so it didn't look like the movement of the caption just stopped and it gave the trailer a better professional look.
Along with all the footage there was digetic sound that had been filmed with the clips too therefore some clips were very good, however they had unnecessary sound of people talking or background noise therefore I had to use the audio section to mute these clips completely. However we wanted to emphasize the scream at the end of the trailer as we wanted it to be something our audience would go home and remember. Therefore we enhanced the sound applying sounds balls to the sound timeline and pushing them up or down depending if you wanted to increase the sound or decrease it. Along with the digetic sound we also added a non-digetic soundtrack to keep the trailer interesting and also by adding music to a trailer it gives the trailer a better feel as when the music quickens the pace quickens and most trailers conventionally have soundtracks. We imported the soundtrack after we downloaded it as it fits our trailer very well and also our genre. We decided to fade the soundtrack out at the end using the audio effects as it sounded better and more professional.
As well as adding effects to the sound we also added video effects to some of the clips.We decided to turn the beginning clips of the murderer being bullied in to black and white, as we felt they worked better because it conveyed them as being in the past. I changed them to black and white by using the video effects on the bottom left hand corner and placeing the B&W option over the top of the clips. We also edited the lighing in several clips as we felt although the darkness was conventional of horror it was hard to see the clips. Therefore we adjusted the lighting by going to video effects and then adjust and there was several options like lighting effects and also contrast which I fiddled with until the clips looked better lit.
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