Film Trailer - Editing;

To edit our film trailer we used 'Adobe Premier Pro CS3' and 'Windows movie maker' for our title shots. We have had previous experience with Premier Pro from our A2 coursework, however this was a different version of Premier Pro, so this year we had to familiarise ourselves with the programme. This programme allowed us to cut clips, add transitions, change the colour, exposure, contrast and sharpness etc, add music, change the clip duration (slow motion/speed it up) and much more.

 This print screen shot shows our first obstacle when it came to editing the footage we captured. This is the dream sequence, where I cover my face and smother the baby doll with a pillow. Whilst filming this scene, it seemed clear and could see me and the cot when we watched it back on the camera, but once we had uploaded it on to the computer and put it on Premier Pro it was too dark to see, causing us much trouble as we did not have enough time to re-film the whole scene, instead we had to compromise. Here you can see that we used the 'colour correction' and the 'brightness and contrast' tools which helped to brighten up the image to a certain extent, this is as clear as we could get the picture, where you can make out the pillow and a faint outline of a person. Although this did not turn out how we wanted it to, it does give off a creepy feel and does make the audience wonder about who or what is doing this.

In order for our film trailer to run smoothly and more like a stereotypical trailer, we had to include video transitions. This is the first type of transition that we used which is 'Dip to white'. We used this because the scene is a fairly bright and pale scene, unlike some of the others, so the transition is more fit for purpose. Not only this, but the nature of the scene represents purity and innocence, so the dip to white therefore represents this. 

This next print screen shot is to show yet another video transition that we used within our film trailer, but this time it is the opposite, it is a 'Dip to black' transition. This is fits in with the dark surroundings from one scene to the next but also could represent the dark turn which the film might take. The contrast between black and white can show the contrasting view of new life and the death of the baby.

This screen shot is to show what we used to edit the 'cot death' scene, where the ghostly hand is reaching over the baby's cot, we wanted an eerie effect here and wanted unusual lighting and contrast. So this shows what we did to gain this in order to gain maximum suspense and a creepy nature. It shows here that we used the 'colour balance' tool and changed certain colour balance's up or down, depending on how we thought it looked at it's best. In my view, this was one of our best editing parts of our trailer and the most effective. 

This is a print screen shot to show how we used Windows movie maker in order to create the video for our title shots, this is because premier pro would not allow us to place the text over the piece of video we chose and would only allow one or the other. This turned out successfully for us, although the writing was much clearer when we made it on Windows movie maker compared to when we converted the file type and placed it on to Premier pro. Another factor which we had to over come was that once we had made the video on Windows movie maker, the video file converter which we were using ('Any video converter'), would not allow us to convert a Windows movie maker file (as it states, it is not a video format which is supported), so we had to upload our video clips on to Youtube, using the 'youtube' button at the top of windows movie maker. This was so that we could download the video off of Youtube, convert the Youtube (MP3 version) into a 'WMV' file type which could then be imported on to Premier pro. This then worked for us and then created effective title video clips for our trailer. 

Here is some examples of our title video's, here we can see the transition of the title's fading in and out of the shot. To put more emphasis on the main title we added the shining sparkle, to make sure the audience recognise that this is the main title and the most important of all the title clips. We see in the first image how the blood/red smoke effect fades with the text which is over it. This was a successful aspect of the editing.

This next print screen shot is to show the use of 'match on action' and how we faded one part of the shot in to the next. We used this shot by captured Sophie coming in to the door and then cutting the clip from the inside of the door, we had to 'razor' the clip so that the scene fitted together and the we used the video transition 'cross dissolve' so that it seemed more like a smooth, clean movement of Sophie coming in to the house. The 'razor' tool and the 'video transition' tool were useful in creating this scene and making it more appealing to the eye and to the audience. 

The next two images show the transition between the release date and website being on the screen to the company production name coming in as a background. We called this 'S.E.R' to represent the first letter of all our group members names (Sarah,Emma and Rebecca). We thought that this worked well and is an effective end to our trailer. This idea is used in many already existing film trailer, thus making our film trailer conventional. We used the video transition 'cross dissolve' once again here, it has a smoothing effect and fades how we wanted it to, making it highly aesthetically pleasing.