Editing Process

This is a screen shot of Adobe Premier Pro where after every filming session, we uploaded the footage filmed to this software. Once the footage had been uploaded we dragged the shots we liked into the editing/work area which is shown in the screen shot with each individual green box, we then editing each individual shot to the standard we wanted, this ment changing effects such as lighting and speed as well as cutting the shots to shorten the clip. To use this effects we had to select them from the toolbars and drop down menus on the left hand side on the screen shot above. The most frequent effect that our group used was the brightning and contrast list as it was difficult to film at the exact same time on our filming days and at this time of year it gets darker earlier as the weeks go on, changing the lighting in each individual shot. By using this tool it allowed the trailer to look more fluent and that time hadnt gone forward or backwards unless we wanted it to appear like this. Also we felt that by darkening down shots it gave of the dramactic and eerie effect that are generally found in horror trailers. After we had edited the first few shots and had filmed the majority of our trailer, we started to put our shots in order of how we wanted the to appear, we did this by refering to our detailed storyboards and planning stages and ordered them according what our group thought best suited our storyline. The detail shot list that was created helped our group when filming as we could refer to it for help if we got stuck. By following our detailed storyboards and shot lists it made sure that we had filmed everything that we needed and wanted to be in our finished trailer. Once we had put our shots in order via the shot list and had done the majority of editing apart from the falling action where we needed to do fast paced editing and music, we uploaded our soundtrack. Next we began adding in still title slides that displayed captions to help the target audience follow the storyline, this also heightens the atmosphere we were trying to create. Once we had our basic trailer with the shots in order with captions in the correct place we began to watch our trailer through and see what improvements needed to be made. When we uploaded the song we knew if was over 3 minutes which exceded out trailer length and so we cut it right down to around one 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. By having to repeat the track this again ment we had to arrange our shots correctly so it fitted the trailer, it also ment that we had to add sections of the song into the layer 'Audio 3' so that the song didnt have any gaps. This completed the editing of our horror film trailer.