On Thursday 8th December we continued to edit our final footage, on Mondays lesson we put all of the final footage on movie maker and had to cut the clips shorter as our trailer was still too long, we had alot of difficulty choosing which parts to cut shorter as we did not want to lose to much footage. Once this was done we saved our third draft and tried opening final cut, we found that none of us were able to open up final cut and chose to use Movie Premiere Pro instead, by using this we were then able to put the final touches on our trailer, we decided that the trailer was still much too long, so we cut the clips even more, we were happy with shortening the trailer as when we watched it back we agreed that it looked much better once it was cut as it was more interesting and gave the viewers enough information about the main idea of the film. We cut the trailer on Premier Pro using the 'in' icon to select the start of the clip, and the 'out' button to mark the end of the clip this allowed us to only add the sections of the clips that we wanted to add and it helped us cut our clips shorter as we would not select the footage that we did not want anymore, Amy cut the clips as she knew what to do right away and she was very good at carefully cutting the clips, I helped her by discussing what we should cut out.
Once we had cut the trailer shorter we then looked at effects that we could use in our trailer both myself and any agreed that we should have some transitions, but after looking at the transitions such as wipe and dissolve we felt that they may effect the authenticity of the trailer. So we are yet to think of possible transitions - I liked the idea of having a fuzzy TV screen effect interfering with the footage as this would look very scary and effective, however I would need to film this first to show my group.
We then added sounds to our trailer - Shona had recorded some of her young neighbours singing ring around the roses which she wanted to do by herself, we listened to the sound that she had recorded, Amy and Shona were pleased with the sound however there were quite a few interferences like children chatting and a door slam, I feel that the it sounds very high pitched and a little to 'happy' to fit in with the gloomy mood of the trailer as I had initially thought that the children would be singing much softer and slower, however the sound does still have the childlike, innocent impact that we needed.
We then listened to the sounds that I had recorded myself, I had to record all of the voice over except for the tag line which we will do together as a group as we had already agreed on my idea to have the first part of the tag line spoken by different people to highlight Scarlets question for identity.
I had recorded 14 different voice recordings which we listened to during the lesson, in the end Amy and Shona did not like most of them as they thought that they sounded fake and unrealistic, we agreed on four that we did like which were:
- The opening line where Scarlet enters the home and informs the viewer on where she is going, for this voice Scarlet had to sound innocent and childlike.
- Soft humming which will be featured at the end of the trailer.
- Slow whispers which will be added to the murder scene to give it a more dramatic impact.
- The noise of wind blowing, this noice was not planned as part of the script but I thought that it sounded eerie and mysterious so we would be able to slot it in a silent part of the trailer so that it would also have more of a dramatic impact.
As for the rest of the sound we will re record it and and add it to the trailer when it is done.
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