Editing the trailer.

We have spent two separate days editing our trailer and it is almost done, only needs a few touch ups! Very existing. Although not without miss-hap's and complications of plenty!

The easy part was putting a rough cut together, simply placing the shots in the order we wanted, this was nice as most of our trailer is a kind of montage of Ben and Lucy's time together, we could pick and choose the best of what we had and enjoyed doing so, it gave us time to reflect on what we could have done better if we had had the time and patents. We went along with the story board for most of the trailer but found that in the end it was better to make shots more continues, so they gave out some of the plot line. We felt this was better for the audience as it would make more sense to them and thus more interested in seeing our movie.

After a rough edit we started to cut the shots to perfection, we needed to cut out small things like when Lucy looks at the camera and Rob entering a room at the right time, there were problems such as things being in the shots that shouldn't be there, this would have made the trailer look very unprofessional.

When are trailer started to look how we imagined it we had to find a song that suited it. This proved more difficult than we envisioned, Helena and I having diff rent taste and us having so many songs to test out. At first we wanted to use 2 different songs either fading them into each other or stopping the first one for Lucy's dialogue, we even tryed to edit the music and put it on a loop in the background but this sounded very unprofessional, in the end we found a song that we both liked "Watched the Sun come up" by Example we found it went with the trailer not only from the way it sounded but also the message it sent out about love. We used garage band something that neither of us had ever used before but we found quite easy to get used to and we changed the volume of the song in different parts so that when there was dialogue in the trailer and voice over (which is yet to be recorded by Lucy) the music was quiet etc.

The overall result was very pleasing, we should be finished by the end of this week, the only problems being the title cards which we would like to look more professional and the last shot which ends on a messy note.

-Lizzy