Question 4

Post- Production

Trailer Editing

Final Cut Pro is an Editing Software that we used to edit the trailer. In order to edit the footage, we had to import the footage, and the sound into the software’s library. We moved what we wanted to use into the timeline and rearranged the footage and sound around into the sequence we wanted.


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The program has a blade tool that we used to cut down each shot of footage to the length that we wanted. Then after we used the blade tool to cut, we changed it back to the mouse tool to delete the footage. There is a pen tool that we used to fade in and fade out the sound to make the sound flow better with the footage. We also used text in Final Cut Pro to create titles.

We used Final Cut Pro for the animatic and the trailer. For the animatic, we imported the photos of a storyboard that was drawn and we dragged the photos individually in the order that we planned the trailer would be in. We cut the shots on the animatic so they were a certain duration using the blade tool and we added sound that related to each photo. The timing and the duration of each shot were important because it helped us to see what the trailer would look like with the editing and to see how long the trailer would be so we knew if we had enough footage.

After we made the animatic we had to create the horror trailer. We filmed some of the same shots of the animatic and changed the story a little, as we thought of other shots to film. We used similar sounds to the animatic as we could use the sounds that related to the same shots as the animatic. To make it more like a trailer, we added titles with a black background and added filters and video effects.

 
Sequence Timeline
The Sequence Timeline shows your footage and it helps you to see what order you have placed your footage and where you have placed the sounds to fit in with the footage and where the fades are. This sequence timeline doesn't look like the animatic that we thought it would look like but because we made adjustments to the order of the footage and where we placed the fades it looks different to the way we planned it.

Final Cut Pro Tutorial

As Final Cut Pro was new to us, we looked at YouTube to find tutorials on how to use Final Cut Pro and the effects that we could use to make it look more like a horror film. We thought that by using tutorials it would make it quicker for us to complete the tasks for making the animatic and th
e horror trailer than if we experimented with the software with
out any help. This is one of the tutorials that we looked at to help us get familiar with the software:

                                                                       Video Effects 

Fade

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One of the effects that we used the most was adding fades because when we looked at examples of horror trailers to give us an idea of what we needed to include, the trailers used a lot of fades to build up the suspense. The screenshots show what the fade looked like in our trailer.

Black and White

We thought that by using the black and white video effect it is more effective than seeing the footage in colour as it is seen more as a horror. The black and white effect is used when showing a close up of a zombie. We added the black and white video effect by clicking on the effects and dragging the black and white effect onto the footage you want to apply it to. 

 Bad TV

The Bad TV effect was sometimes used when the camcorder video effect was used to make it look out of focus and unbalanced and in horror films they usually use this Bad TV effect when showing the footage of the zombie because when they are shown on screen you can't see them very well. 

We adjusted the colour to make it darker because the zombie wouldn't look as scary if there wasn't low key lighting.

Camcorder

This is where we found the camcorder video effect and we dragged this onto the footage that we wanted to apply it to. 

The camcorder was added to make it look like CCTV footage that someone has found in the story and we also use this effect to look like someone is filming the zombie attack. The zombie film "REC" influenced us to use this technique. However we could have improved this effect by making the outline smaller to make it look more realistic. 

We found this video clip from YouTube to add to the CCTV effect. In horror films, when they are recording something, this usually appears so we thought that by adding this it would make more sense to the audience that there is filming in the actual film.




Letterbox



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Text Effects

This screenshot shows the video effects that we have applied to this title. You can see that the video effects used are Bad TV, Letterbox and we have changed the background colour to red. 

The Text also uses the earthquake effect because in horror trailers, the titles normally move out of place and we thought that the earthquake effect was the best one to use to suit the horror genre. 


Sounds

Poster and Magazine

For the final poster and magazine we downloaded fonts from this website to use in Photoshop.  We didn’t think that the fonts in Photoshop were appropriate for a horror genre and this website has different font styles and it was easy for us to find the horror fonts that we wanted as there is a search box to use and you can define fonts in categories.  We chose the same font for the title that says “the Flesheaters” because this keeps the consistency for all three final products.

Examples of fonts from the Poster and Magazine

Photoshop

Before using Photoshop, some drafts were made for the poster and magazine as a guideline of what they could look like after looking at existing horror posters and magazines. the software this year and this gave us more time to think about how to layout the poster and magazine as last year we was spending most of our time learning how to use Photoshop.