EDITING- lighting

Our lighting was all natural lighting apart from the flashing lights to mimic the game playing in one clip. The lighting editing was the quickest part as it did not need a lot of focus, we just needed to make the images slightly more clear in our trailer so that it looked as professional as it could: this was all done on Final Cut Pro.

First the clip was imported and to every clip we did the following:

The 'Vibrancy' effect was added as it gave the picture a clearer viewing and also aided in making the colours stand out. This was most important for the clips of the actual internet filmed onscreen because every colour had to show in order to make it look more vibrant, of course, and to make the quality of the filming seem even more clear.

Just to make the quality a bit more defined the 'Crisp Contrast' effect was added. This merely made the picture more outlined as well as appearing clear and vivid so our audience could inspect every detail of the teaser trailer.

EDITING- text

The final choice for our text that we would use throughout the trailer was very simplistic. We decided to use a simple format for the texts throughout the trailer because the actual edits done to our clips tended to be quite extravagant. To keep the trailer looking not over done we chose this font and effect.

THE EFFECT

The effect we used in the actual transitions was one called 'feature.' We chose this because of the subtlety it offered and also it suited our teaser trailer well because the clips were often quite exaggerated compared to the texts inputted. This effect was inspired by the Hard Candy text effects within its trailer. The story line of both Hard Candy and Alternet are quite twisted and being psychological dramas, the way the text subverts the extravagance of the trailers it makes it even more effective because of the simplicity of the texts. The fading away in our actual transition could even enforce the idea of loss of identity, because of the way the letters gradually vanish once they appear. This could represent our main protagonist and his loss of identity via the web.

THE TYPOGRAPHY

The typography that we chose for our texts was an ordinary non cursive style called [FIND NAME OF FONT AND GET PRINT SCREEN THEN ELABORATE SHAHNAZ BABESSS DON'T FORGET YOU SEXY CREATURE... sorry getting a bit carried away]

THE TIMINGS

Some of the texts with a longer sentence would be harder to read in such a short space of time, the one minute allowed for our overall trailer. So in order for our longer texts to stay for a longer duration so our audience had  more time to read them, the clip of the said texts had to be dissected into 3 parts, and the first and last cutting would be made shorter, but the middle clip would be made longer, so that the actual sentence, once it appeared, would stay on the screen for a longer period of time. This eventually made our trailer a lot more audience conscious fulfilling their satisfaction.

This effect and font used in the teaser trailer were all found on Final Cut Pro. These text were then added to our iMovie saved trailer by exporting the file.

EDITING- special effects

THE 'GLITCH'

The glitches you can see in the trailer when having introduced the names of our actors was added in to add something slightly more special so that it stood out and also made the trailer conform to the stereotypes of a psychological drama being quite harrowing as the intensity of the stares increases the 'fear factor.' 

This was achieved by firstly making the clip very short, so it was made to be 0.5 seconds. It was necessary to make the clip appear to be more 'smooth' and high in quality, so the effect of 'cartoon' was added which made the image appear slightly more softer. This was done by selecting the 'cartoon' effect and dragging it onto the clip.

Then to create the shaking effect the 'earthquake' effect had to be added, this was done in the same way as demonstrated in the paragraph above. This effect made the glitch move side to side slightly more to emphasise the glitch more so that it did not look like bad quality filming naturally.

This was then completed by adding the 'bad T.V' effect

THE 'PRISM' EFFECT

This effect was added to make the image seem in some way quite distorted but in a subtle way, to suggest how the protagonist seems normal to his friend but then there is something off key about him. This effect was found on Final Cut Pro. It was simply done by opening and cutting the clip on Final Cut Pro and adding the effect actually called 'prism' onto it by dragging it. This was then saved as a separate movie and then imported onto iMovie. This effect merely highlighted the outlines of the main elements in the clip, and this added a slight touch of oddity in the appearance of the clip.

FLASHING PENCIL EFFECT

This effect was made on Final Cut Pro and was done just to make the trailer more fast paced to add to the disoriented illusion we were trying to create. The quickness of the clip and the fastness adds to the nature and convention of a teaser trailer being short, so in this we were successful in meeting a teaser trailer's typical convention. Doing this followed the same procedure of dragging the effect onto the clip. Also this clip was added to create almost a small bridge before the clip that came after it as it was quite long, so by introducing those jump cuts with this small, snappy clip made the trailer flow a lot more visually.

EDITING- sound

There were sounds that were needed in our trailer which we included and these steps are demonstrated in the screen grabs below.

SOUND EFFECTS

We decided that the first clip of our trailer would be in silence, with only the sound of the clicking being heard for dramatic effect. So we did this by muting the actual clip, and then going on 'Sounds and Music' and searched for a clicking sound to ensure that it would sound crisp with no interference.

The screen grab above shows the two clicking sounds put into the trailer. We made them especially loud so that they could be loud and so that our audience would be able to hear this properly so that it makes the impact it needs to.

GETTING THE 'DROP' RIGHT

Our selection of music has the perfect silence we searched for which then is followed by the beat dropping into an intense instrumental. When assembling the clips, it was then necessary to make the beat drop exactly where the disequilibrium starts. This was successful though it was quite difficult getting the beat to drop exactly where it needed to, but this was eventually achieved. Once we had clipped all of our clips and then added the texts, at the start of the song on the timeline it was possible to open up the 'clip trimmer' for the sound on a drop down menu in the top left hand corner on the little white cog sign on the actual music. This enabled us to be able to adjust the drop to match the trailer.

MAKING THE MUSIC FADE

So the music ends on a not too abrupt stop it was essential to make the song fade towards the end. For the last clip (not including the 'coming soon' text clip following our final clip) we made the music fade by dragging a small white bead backwards which made the grooves of music rounded meaning that the last clip faded in sound and eventually came to a stop. This made it have an overall smoother sound making it sound professional, additionally.

COMPANY LOGO

The 'Revolver' company logo is introduced with a sort of subtle low 'whooshing' sound. This was done so that the music that followed the logo introduction did not just start without any backing whatsoever. This was achieved by inserting the company logo but then muting it and going onto the music sign icon on iMovie to find a dramatic but subtle enough sound to accompany the clip. This also is a feature of any kind of trailer, so we used a reputable film British film company logo in our own teaser trailer.

EDITING- the use of Final Cut Pro

It is noticeable that in the screen grabs that were taken of the editing process included images from Final Cut Pro. This software was used to add any special effects so it would make our trailer prominent and exciting to watch. This was a simple process as is illustrated below:

1. We imported the clip onto Final Cut Pro to begin with and then selected the edits we wanted

2. It was then necessary to press Command+E so that the file could then be shared. We gave the lone movie, that it would turn into, a name.

3. Then this clip was saved into our area as a movie on its own.

4.Subsequently, we would revert back to iMovie and then select 'import files'

5. We would open the file on iMovie and this would work as a clip on its own, ready to be used in the trailer.

Editing Ideas

EDITING IDEAS

Drama genre films can interlace with different genres of film so there can be drama horrors or dramatic thrillers etc, so there can be different editing techniques for these different sub genres e.g.:

THE READER:

Subtle colours are used in the taglines (binary opposition in screenshot above) so that this particular drama conforms to the stereotype of the romantic element it is also trying to portray.

I SAW THE DEVIL:

Jump cuts are used to create sense of disorientation which is ideal for a horror/crime drama as there are many enigmas created within the trailer itself.

CHOOSE:

This trailer uses a lot of reaction shots and this is so that the audience can see and almost feel how the actors and actresses are reacting to certain situations in the trailer despite the fact that the teaser trailer is not in linear order.

In some of the research I have done there are some editing techniques I have seen in dramas that could be possible inspiration to our own teaser trailer in some short films. The screenshot below shows a type of editing where the colouration of the actual filming has been changed to a luminescent purple which makes the close up effective as the audience can see the smallest details in the protagonist’s face in the close up shot, making it more surreal and heartfelt by the audience. The purple colour makes the shot look different and haunting in a way which could be really effective in our own piece of work if done accordingly.

In “Emotion” I found that the slow motion parts of the short film were really effective in terms of how the protagonist feels, as though time slows down shown through her emotion and body language which makes her appear distraught and maddened. The jump cuts were efficient in making her seem quite disjointed from how she was feeling at the start, and the contrast shown is very noticeable which choice of editing because she seems quite unstable, and Jake one of our protagonists is supposed to be this way, so this editing could be useful to us in some way.