Over the weekend we decided to start on some of the major parts of editing on the footage we had filmed so far. We had to do this out of school hours as Daniel wanted to change the editing program that we were using - previously we had been using Adobe Premier Elements on his laptop but now we are using Adobe Premier Pro, which isn't on his laptop, and so the editing of the film cannot be done within school. His reasons for this change were that Premier Pro gives a wider range of options and effects for video and that this software as well as the laptop itself was struggling to render the footage; our main problem with this was the lag.
We created title screens for our trailer first, which are "Black Magic" and "Coming Soon". We used Adobe After Effects for this to get a professional look - Daniel had previous experience with this program and so he found it easy to use, whereas I needed some coaching. Using the help of a tutorial we had found on the internet, we were able to complete our title screens quickly. For the title screen "Black Magic", the effect is that the words are made of blood that drips down the screen - this was done using stock videos of 'blood' dripping which we then masked over our words. We repeated the blood effect for the "Coming Soon" title screen, only this image was static and so no blood dripped. We made sure to use the traditional horror colours, red, white and black for these title screens as they create the correct ambience and follows the codes and conventions of real horror trailers.
Next, we created a title screen for the production company, something which features at the beginning of all trailers no matter the genre. We made up our production company, calling it DM Productions and used the internet once again to help create the title screen. We wanted the logo to appear misty and ghostly which was easy to create with the internets help, and then we added our title screens to Premier Pro ready for editing together with the filming.
Now we put all of our footage and title screens in the correct places in chronological order to get a sense of where we were going with the trailer; unfortunately, we still didn't have the 'walking' scene, so we were unable to actually editing everything together. Daniel had prevously created a 'luma key' preset which he added to the clips to give them a better look, making them darker and more focussed This effect is what we had wanted all along from the beginning of production, as it is conventional of horror trailers to look that way.
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