Editing process

Here is a screen shot image of the footage we edited together. Whenever we finished each session of filming we would upload the footage onto premiere pro, from there we would select which shots we prefer and are suitable for our horror trailer. We would then drag these down into the work area (the bottom mid panel), we then edited them individually, making sure that only the parts of the shot we needed remained. When we started off filming we didnt get that much done as we hoped, as there was some issuseswith the filming. So as we were organising more filming we decided to use the time we had for editing wisely. We added lighting and in some instances speed, duration, special effects to the shots we had. We did this using the drop down menu on the left hand sideof the screen, one of the effects that we used on the majority of our shots was the brightness and contrast. This allowed us to darken down shots, so we could portray more of an eerie, chilling atmosphere, as it is sceen in horror films and trailers. Obviously we followed our group storyboard, however the detailed list came in useful as some alterations had been made between the time the storyboard was completed and when filming took place. After this day we uploaded all of the footage and did as we had before, dragging down the shots we wanted and cutting them down individually. Then using the list we began to order the shots and also uploaded out soundtrack. The shots that were going to be quickly cut together at the end of the trailer (to represent the falling action) were left in a 'random' arrangement until the rest of the shots had been put into a suitable order. We used many black 'still title' slides to add captions throughout. We altered the scale of the text as the slide was played so that the text 'grew'. Once we had the basic structure of our trailer in place it was time to tweak and improve certain shots and sequences. We also had to cut the soundtrack right down as to begin with it was over 3 minutes in length and our trailer would be no longer that 1 minute, 30 seconds.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 previous piece of music cut with the next. This needed to be perfect so that the audience would assume the song was fluent and sounded correct when played to our trailer. Although this was frustrating and errors were made at times we learnt how to better our new skill and edited our song to how we wanted it to sound. We then began to move our shots to fit the track. We left a couple of gaps in our trailer where we needed to film a few more shots when begining to finish our trailer, we new we had to film these it was just a matter of arranging time for the protaginist to act for us. Once we had filmed these final shots it was easy to slot this in to place, and adding our last affects to these final shots. The last few days of editing our trailer were very stressfull as we had to completly re edit our sound track as the tempo rose to earlier in our trailer according to our shot layout. To overcome this issue we repeated the first part of the soundtrack at the begining of the trailer which was the rising action, this alllowed the pace to increase at the correct point in the trailer.