Final editing session for trailer

     On Wednesday 14th December we edited our trailer in the media suite for the final time, as in tomorrow's lesson we will burn the very final copy onto a disk. 


Example of adding
gradient wipe to the
trailer.



We had alot to do in the lesson as we had not yet added all of the sounds, transitions and we wanted to change the production company name and logo and we needed to shorten clips further. 

First we looked at the trailer and played it thought all together, taking turns to listen to it. We did this to see what the trailer was lacking, we found that the trailer was quite slow and longer and some sounds were much more dominant that others and some were quite over bearing. We also knew that to make the trailer look more interesting and effective we needed to have some more transitions, aside from the 'camera flash', so we decided to add a gradient wipe, which Amy adjusted to make it feature on the screen slower so it would look more creeping and created more tension also Amy altered the softness of the gradient wipe to make it appear much heavier (40%) this make the black gradient look much thicker. I am pleased with the look of the transition as it gives are trailer a scarier impact and makes it look much more interesting and intriguing.



Example of changing speed/duration



Next we added the rest of the sounds and listened them back, some of the sounds sounded quite strange, I think the 'ring a ring a roses' song was too high pitched and did not relate to the genre or the trailer - in the clip of the two sisters they are aged around 9-10, but the voices in the recorded sound are far too young and squeaky so me and Amy thought that it would be better to reduce the speed/duration of the song to 85, this sounded more eerie and by manipulating the sound the voices sounded older, relating more to the vibe of the trailer, the genre and the clip.

We also needed to merge the clips together as we were working on each clip separately so we had all of the clips very spaced out, we then merged them together and watched the trailer again - there was still something missing for use - we had to make some adjustments with the sound as when I had listened to it again some of it was drowned out by the natural sounds in the scene, for example in the first line was drowned out by Shona's footsteps as she was stamping quite loudly in the scene, so we had to mute the audio on the scene so that the voice over could be herd much clearer.

We also made sure that all the sounds were cut and changed to be shorter if needed as when we merged the clips we found that the sound clips had moved.
We also decided to change our production company title as we felt that it was very basic, this took a while as we could not decide what effect we wanted to use, we opted for a simple looking background for our production company and used an image of an old strip of negatives to write the name of the company on. This looked much more authentic and professional so we attached the clip showing 'Scarlet Screen Productions' with its new background. Next lesson we will just need to add a few final touches and we will then burn the trailer onto disks.