Editing, Film Trailer, Evaluation

Editing - Film Teaser Trailer

Evaluation of Editing:

As a group I feel as though we worked well when it came to editing. Editing was a very important part of our film trailer to ensure that it worked well to fit the genre that we were trying to convey and that this was clear.
The way in which we did this was through:

• use of sound that was effective and helped convey the genre the whole way through the trailer
• editing clips for example the glitch that we added into some of the parts of the trailer
• the use of lighting and ensuring that all props were used and seen

The way we did this as a group I feel was effective especially through the sound tracks that we chose to suit our genre.

Editing, Website, Louise

For our website we ensured that we evenly had separate roles within contributing towards the website. However I think that as a group there is some things that we are aware of that need changing and things that need adding in.

Here is our current website in which we all contributed towards. For example I created the social media links, harriet added in the tag line with the star rating underneath and Xena did the red room title and edited in the photo onto the website.

However I think that there are some things that would make it more effective and with slight changes would make the overall layout better. To improve our website I am going to add in some critical reviews down the side and take that as my responsibility as they are currently missing and try and add those in.

Editing Practical:

 

 Editing:

For our teaser trailer we wanted to show small snippets of events that occur within our piece. This and due to our internet theme we deemed that adding a glitch effect would look the best. I decided to figure out how to do this so I watched numerous YouTube videos and read different articles explaining how this was possible on the editing software that we had.

 

Firstly I selected the clips that I wanted within the jittering/glitch and added the 'Gaussian' effect to them. This blurs the images, (however when playing around with the amount, blur, vertical and horizontal the image can be altered.)

After I had done this I then added the 'Bad Tv' effect to the clips, and then brought the amount down to around 7/8 to give a subtle effect of a webcam/video.

After this I then selected the 'blade' tool, and cut up each of the different clips into around 6-10 different sections depending on the length. This was done so each bladed section could be manipulated in a different manor to give the effect that it was altering and jittering.

To do this I brought the vertical button down to 0 on each clip, and the horizontal to 100. This was in order to jitter the picture.

Then on each clip I did a different level of the 'Amount' and 'Blur boost' in order to create the desired effect.

I also at certain points added the 'Bad Tv' effect up to 100% to create a very clear quick glitch amongst the jittering.

After all of this was done I then selected the clip and made into a new compound clip to erase any confusion with the amount of separate clips and also allow for it to run smoothly without any lagging.

 

Editing - Sound - Louise

Editing; Sound

Editing of sound within our teaser trailer was a very important thing to ensure that we had enough sound and those sounds worked in the correct places.

For editing sound we had to had ensure that all the sounds layered together properly, for example we had to layer I'm the sounds that were already within the footage for example the scream of the young boy that is within the live stream we also had to layer I'm the carnival sound that is used also within the live stream. You can see in these screenshots below that's turned up the sound of the scream and had the carnival sound playing quietly along in the background.

Editing Practical 2

Editing our Trailer

As we began nearing the end of the editing process, I made some final tweaks to the footage. I added the typography I made for the title and added TV glitch sound effect to fit with the broken sign. I also used the Ken Burns tool on Final Cut Pro to make the logo slowly zoom in for dramatic effect. 

I also added a sound effect timed to play as soon as the typography appears on screen. The video I'd exported from Photoshop was also a bit fast, so I slowed it down by 50%.

The videos I'd exported for the titles in the trailer were also quite short, but as I wanted to keep the speed of the text shaking I added multiple copies rather than slowing them down.

At the end of the trailer, there is also a final moment of glitching for which I added the glitch sound effect we'd been using throughout. For the end two title cards, 'Coming Soon' and social media information, I added a booming sound effect.

For lighting, I felt some of the shots were too bright to fit with our genre. To rectify this I decreased the opacity of these shots. Due to the background naturally being black, this lowered the brightness rather than making them more transparent.

Finally, my group wanted to add a TV turning off effect at the end of the webcam shot. I downloaded an effect from YouTube and bladed it just before the end. I placed the first part on top of the footage and lowered the opacity to make it seem as though the webcam shot was grainy. The part where it switches off plays after the shot so you can fully see this effect.

Editing - Glitching - Louise

Glitching: Editing

As some of our shots required effects to make them work effectively, I worked out how to do this

Firstly I bladed all of the shots into smaller shots so that I could work with the individual image and add different effects to different shots making it look like it was a glitch. First i bladed the shots that required it for example when the young girl has a weapon dragged across her throat by the killer.

Here is the effect that I decided to use as it was suitable for the trailer as it suited the images well and it provided the effect that we wanted. This effect allowed the image to look distorted and blurry which helped to add the effect that there was a glitch occurring because the image was distorted and was no longer clear.

This effect I then added onto all of the clips that I had bladed up so that they all had the same effect on them which was bad tv making it look out of place and appear more scary to the audience.

In the next step of editing these clips I then changed the amount of the effect which was the bad tv effect that was done, I did this so that the clips all had a different amount of the effect on them so that it looked like the clip had a glitch and this helps to ensure that the images are varied and all look different. For some of the clips I made it so that there was a massive glitch and put the amount up a lot when it was supposed to be a full glitch and I made sure I did this half way through the bladed clip .

This is where the clips were bladed for example this is the part when the killer is rubbing the guts. This is the clips after being bladed so that we could add he individual effects and glitch effects onto each clip with different amounts on them,

This is the second effect that I used when editing this part for the glitch, I did the same thing by turning up the blur boost just so that the image could be seen but still be blurry to create suspense to the audience, I then turned the amount of the effect up so that it looked like it was a glitch.

This is overall how it looked, I am happy with my editing to create a glitch effect because i works effectively when all the bladed clips that I edited are put together and they run smoothly to make a long clip of gltiching.

Once I had finished the editing of these clips I then made it back into a compound clip so that the bladed clips were all one clip again.

Editing Practical: Sound

Sound: 

During the basic editing stage we removed all the sound to ensure no excess audio was in place, therefore we needed to add a soundtrack/sound effects to add to the tension, make it interesting and ensure that it suited our genre of a horror with slasher elements. 

Firstly I searched on YouTube for an un copyrighted Skype noise for when the messages sending the link to 'The Monkey House' appears. This makes the clip seem more realistic as it uses the same sound it would in real life. After I had found it I converted it to an MP3, and downloaded it from 'YouTube Convertor'.

After this I inserted it into 'Final Cut Pro' and moved it to my desired area ensuring it played in time to the footage. I also adjusted the volume to ensure that it was loud enough to be noticeable, but not too loud that it is over powering.

Due to our teaser trailer being circus themed I believed that finding circus/carnival music would be very fitting. So I searched on websites such as Sound Cloud and YouTube for un copyrighted music that I deemed to be appropriate. Eventually I found a piece on YouTube, I added it to the scene where the Monkey House website appears and turned the volume up very loudly to create tension. I then duplicated and cropped the sound and played it on a very low level for the rest of the duration to add to a subtle, creepy effect.

During filming another of the victims screamed to create a realistic motion. I deemed this to be appropriate for the footage so added it onto the website footage and I increased the volume in order for added tension.

After making the glitch effect I then decided that sound effects needed to be added in order to make it have a more eerie vibe, and suit our genre of a horror with slasher elements better.

I found un copyrighted sound of glitch and bladed the desired areas and deleted the remaining so I was left with a variety of small glitch effects. I then placed them to my desired area to create the best possible effect.

Editing Practical

Editing our Trailer

When adding in our production company openings, I found that there was no transition and so I added a crossfade going into plain black from the intro logo and then going straight into the footage. I used the precision editor to make this as accurate as possible. 

I then needed to edit the screen capture footage of our fake red room as there was not enough footage of the plain website before the video loaded. I did this by blading the footage at the part were the site was blank and slowing this down using the retime function. 

 

We also wanted to use an ambient noise in the background to increase the layered sound effects. We found that a default audio file on Final Cut Pro called 'Wind Haunted' worked well for this. 

Finally, as a lot of our trailer uses a glitching effect, I began adding this to some of the shots. First, I bladed shots into three parts and added a plain black box in between as I wanted it to flash. Then, to the shots I applied the 'Bad TV' final cut pro effect at varying levels, so at some point it was more glitched than others. Finally, I used a gaussian blur at various degrees on the shots to increase this effect. 

Editing Practical: Basics:

Editing:

After finishing our filming stage I began to do the basic editing process of importing my footage and cropping it down and placing it in the correct order. This took a fair amount of time since during this process we needed to decide which footage and which take of certain scenes to include to ensure it worked the best together. W e also had to remove any sound and crop out any inappropriate scenes.

firstly I inserted the card into the laptop and dragged them to the dashboard. After this I selected the 'import' button and 'media' to import our footage into the document. I then selected the desired clips and imported them in.

Afterwards I then began to put them in the order that we had decided of during our story board planning process. I then began to crop out footage down from around 3 minutes, to 1 minute 50 seconds and then finally 50 seconds. This took time since I had to judge correctly what bits were necessary and which were not. As well as cutting down clips using precision editor to ensure they flowed correctly with the following e.g. match on action of the killer walking into her lare and opening and closing the door.



After this was done I then began to adjust and delete the audio of the clips. Since it had background noise as well as us speaking in the background.

Conclusion:

• Overall our basic editing at the beginning went fairly well.
• Due to planning in advance such as our story boards we knew what exact order the clips needed to be in ensuring no extra time was wasted.
• We also knew our time limit of 60 seconds so knew that it needed to be cut down as much as possible. 

Lighting - Editing - Louise Hyam

Lighting: Editing

Once we had cropped all the clips and added the effects that were required we decided that some of the clips were done in poor lighting and they needed to be darkened down to have more of an effect.

 As you can see in the above clip of the girl where she is being attacked by the murderer the lighting was very bright so during the editing stages I pulled the exposure down so that this would darken the image down.

 However because we darkened the image down we used the saturation tool to make the parts that needed to be saturated and stand out able to do this.

 This is what the editing tool looks like, for example this is the one for shadows and I made sure that the shadows were still seen so that it looks natural and not too edited and I did this by dragging the middle dot down away from the bar until it looked appropriate.

 For these photos of the killer in the pig mask during the editing stages I also decided that the same needed be done here.