Post Production

Post production was definitely the hardest part of making the film trailer. We went through many different trailers as our ideas varied so I had to keep re-adjusting or changing the video and try and make use of the footage we had got. For the film trailer I used Premiere Pro.

Below I have wrote about how i edited the trailer:

First thing I did to edit the trailer was to split the film into different sequences in Premiere Pro. I had learnt this technique through my work experience with film company, ASA Productions. Basically I split the main parts of the film into different timelines and have one 'master' or 'main' timeline which I put the finished sequences in. This was useful to speed up productivity and make the timeline a little less messy so I could focus on certain parts of the film trailer without interfering with the rest of the film trailer.



Now I will focus on those said sequences in different sections if there is a specific section you want to look at.

Main

'Main' is pretty self explanatory. I added the compilation which I had moved the title opening and barn scene in which I will explain later along with the first clip of the school opening. If you notice I do not have a sequence of the first scene and is just a video I put in the start. That was because I had previously rendered that scene and felt like it didn't need changing so I just imported it in to save time.

The "HD to cinema transparent.png" was the black bars I put on top. I am aware you can just use masks and crops, there are many ways around making the black bars. However this is the way I have always done it.  I have no need in the trailer to move the black bars for dramatic effects so I just added it to the top of the main sequence and locked it so I wouldn't accidentally move it when trying to move something else.



Barn

'Barn' sequence is where a lot of editing is straight away noticeable. Even though some of this sequence got cut in the final trailer, I will still go in-depth about it.

When I properly zoom in, which you will see in a screenshot below you can see the audio waves and the cuts I have made in correlation to them. Some of the scenes, and the most noticeable one where Jak's face is first shown has many cuts when the music peaks. This overall adds to a trailer. Through much research the best trailers have cuts which are in sync with the music.

Title Opening

'Title Opening sequence consisted of three main clips. The first was the vector productions logo we already had for the previous film we did. This is our made-up film production company. After that you see a 'Lionsgate' logo. This was slightly sped up to fit with the music. The last clip was the company 'MARV', this was taken from the film 'Kick-ASS 2' I also added hits in the audio when the clips start.

Compilation

The 'compilation' sequence was full of many cuts, probably the most in any of the other sequences.To make the video in sync with the music i went through and made a marker every time there was a loud 'hit' in the song. After doing this I was able to quickly edit the clips so that they were in sync with the song. I believe this worked really well in the trailer as it is a technique used in most action trailers.