Use of Synergy

During the process of creating our film trailer, we looked to get feedback from our audience. We allowed classmates to review the film and give us criticism that would help us improve. One member of the group noted the feedback so we could look back at what was said.

We used social networking sites to get a wider range of criticism from a range of ages, including family members, friends and friends' of friends. Facebook and Youtube worked most effectively, as Facebook users could instantly watch and share our film trailer, similarly with Youtube sharing and commenting.

To edit our main task we used Apple's Final Cut Express Pro. This is an advanced video editing software, created by Apple Inc. This was a new video editing software for us to use, as we had previously used Adobe Premiere Pro. Although Premiere Pro doesn't edit HD video, so we used this as an alternative. It took some practise and tutorials to learn how to master Final Express Pro, and stylise parts of our film trailer such as the title's font and transitions.

To create the ancillary tasks I used Adobe Photoshop, as I am more familiar with that software. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing software, that helped me adapt images with text/font and different lighting. Also I used it to manipulate images, for example removing John Walters from an image and extended the shadow to create the poster.
Shown below is the final poster and its original image. I used Photoshop to create the poster, enhancing the brightness, contrast and shadows of the image.

Editing with Final cut express

The problem we have as a group is that we have spent years editing on Adobe Premiere Pro program which is a simple yet effective footage editing program. We have now moved to final cut express with the mac which is very similar to premiere pro but it allows you to edit HD footage and create SFX and computer generated effects but it can only be used on a Apple MAC.

Since me and Dave have been editing on this program we have found many problems such as:

How to import text into the film.

How to add/take away sound from your footage.

As you can imagen for creating a film trailer especially a teaser, text and sound are absolutley fundemental for our progress in work. We are just starting to adapt to the program now and I personally have found that the youtube tutorials helped us with editing greatly infact I now know how to create good looking text that suits our film.

13/06/2011 Issue With Editing

Today the objective was to learn how and try to rip the vocals out of a song so that only the backing music would be left and I could sing in place of the original artists voice. It is presenting problems though and we need to find another way around it because our song "Beast in me" by Johnny Cash is an essential part of our trailer which will coney much meaning. I feel the music in teaser trailers has to be gripping & most importantly has to have subliminal meaning with the footage that is shown. I still have not managed to master the ripping of vocals but i'm going to keep on trying.