TRAILER EDITING PROCESS
We began the editing process by looking at the video clip we could use and thought about how we could use them to link to one another, creating a timeline of events. As well as this, we looked to our storyboard to remind us the direction the trailer should take. This proved difficult as due to the complications caused by the pandemic there was a great deal of clips we had wanted to be filmed from our storyboards that weren't able to filmed. So we focused on the timeline we had just made by looking out our clips.
For special effects, Tom used the After Effects application. In this screenshot, a 3d map of the footage is being made so that objects can be grafted onto the building. The red circle is where the centre point of the 3d map is. This 3d map allows virtual depth to made for image and other assists to placed onto. This virtual depth makes the objects look real and apart of the original footage.
Here we are applied to Ultra Key effect in Premiere to remove the background of the news clip. With the background removed, we placed the clip on top of the image of the tv. An image of the newsroom was also placed behind the clip. This constructed a realistic scene where it appears as if the audience is looking at the news from within a living room.
Music is used to convey the intensity of the thriller and horror genres that are being used in the trailer, while also adding impact to the visuals of the trailer. The music swelling is used in tandem with the intense scenes to make for an atmosphere that will have the audience on the edge of their seat.
TEASER TRAILER EDITING PROCESS
The teaser trailer has the task of engaging the audience within 30 seconds, this means that our teaser would need to present engaging components quickly and efficiently. In Premiere, we built up the timeline using short cinematic clips that convey the themes of the film as well as providing spectacle to grab the audience's attention. Intertitles are also utilities to build tension and give a small insight into the film's plot. These intertitles were timed to match with the heartbeats to add impact and tension. These heartbeats were used to give the teaser a consistent tension and build up.
This one post covers a huge amount. You offer thoughtful insight into several of the key challenges in your filming and editing process, not the least of which was marrying up the pre-lockdown footage with the amount that you were able to handle during and after the lockdown. You and your team were very organised and creative before lockdown and have been very resourceful since. Although the project has not been at all easy to realise, you have come close to achieving what you set out to create. In this post, you explain how the soundtrack connects the footage and how you have anchored the visuals around it. Given your specific film genre, creating special effects that were convincing and impressive was key to the trailer's success: you describe the editing that you undertook with After Effects to create special effects in the editing of the Mansion scenes, for example, in green screening the news broadcast scene and in colour-grading to lend a particular look and atmosphere to the main trailer footage.
ReplyDeleteYou also show a good grasp of the requirements of the teaser trailer to deliver and intense experience through its soundtrack -such as the heartbeats-, its key clips and inter-titles. You have risen to the challenge extremely well.