Editing, sound production, equipment and software choices
- Mindomo
- Dafont
- Microsoft Paint
- Fotoflexer
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Adobe Fireworks CS5.1
- YouTube
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
- Microsoft Excel
Software/websites used during pre-production:
- Microsoft Paint
- Microsoft Word 2010
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
- Adobe Fireworks
- Microsoft Excel
- YouTube
Software/websites used during production
- Microsoft Paint
- Microsoft Word 2010
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
- Adobe Fireworks
- Fotoflexer
- Dafont
- Mindomo
Sound production
For our trailer, Mikaela and I decided to use the R&B instrumental song by Plan B - Playing with fire ft. Lambrinth.We used the instrumental version instead, because the original music version contained the use of bad language, we also remembered that most social realism film trailers only use instrumentals. Another reason which made us use an Instrumental R&B music is because both categories of music scored highly during the audience survey that we took therefore we opted to fuse both genres together. As well as being a convention that most media trailers use, and for being two of the most popular picked genre of music (out of the overall eight available options, in our audience survey) what also made made us select this music was that it fitted really well with the plotline of our trailer. It was fast and loud.
A sound effect that we added towards the end of the trailer was a gunshot. We used this to hint the death of the character of Louise, without using anymore clips.
We cut the first 39 seconds of the soundtrack as it contained high notes, which we both found unsuitable to place at the start of our trailer we also wanted it to start with a much lower volume and slower pace to fit in with the plot.
The low beat of the drums, slow paced music and the high voice of the singer fitted well with Richard-Henry's personality at the beginning of the trailer. Which was quiet, studios and respectful.
The louder beats, faster paced music later in the trailer suited well with his new personality and identity of being part of Ben's gang, being more uncaring and disrespectful. As you can see we cut the 'playing with fire' soundtrack as we wanted the loud beat of the drum to go in time with when, Louise pushes Ben aside in order to help Richard-Henry. We incorporated a gunshot near the end of the trailer so that audiences would be hinted at the outcome of the story. We originally wanted to include the scene of when a certain character gets wounded, but as this is a trailer we decided against it-to not give the whole story away.
From the image positioned above you can clearly see that the song for our trailer starts straight after the BBFC black screen clip; we have deliberately done this so that our trailer follows the typical convention of trailers (the song starts straight after the green screen or the BBFC black certification clip).
Below is a YouTube video where you can hear the whole original instrumental song by Plan B.
We wanted the editing to coincide with the convention of typical social realism films, that's why we included several black screen flashes, and quick shots which hinted the storyline well in a fast manner.
Equipment used during filming:
Sony Camera DSC-W70
Iphone 5
Laptop and computer
Video Camera (for the audience feedback clip)
The above devices used were simple to manage, as they are everyday tools I used. One of the similarities that both the Sony camera and Iphone 5 share is that they are handheld devices. This means that they rely mostly on human hand control. Therefore they have risks, such as accidentally dropping it, on the ground and that unsteady hands may result to rough, amateur looking clips.
Other than that I was overall happy with using these devices.
During filming for trailer
Sony Camera DSC-W7
Iphone 5
Editing software
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
overall technology used:
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