Adobe premiere elements 15 provided us with editing tools that would help make our trailer look professional. Lighting is key in creating the right atmosphere. Usually, Drama tends to use lighting that is naturalistic or cool- blue/ green tones. We adjusted the colour grading lighting black to 13, which dimed the brightness in the footage. Furthermore, also changed the colour grading (RGB) to red-98, green 108 and blue-113, and colour saturation to -29.0. This helped illustrate the seriousness of the trailer, which helped create a tense atmosphere- conforming to drama.
Post-production is the final stage of the film production, which is time-consuming and usually takes longer than actually shooting for the film/ trailer. This is because it involves the complete editing, music, sound, and colour correction to finalise the product.
Editing is one aspect of the post-production process and requires rearranging and constructing the video footage we gathered for our trailer. To do this we used the software Adobe premiere elements 15, which is the same software as last year but just an updated version. We separated the footage into sections to make it easier to edit; also prevent the software from crashing and being overworked.
The transaction cross dissolve was used in our trailer multiple times because this editing technique symbolises passage of time and change in location. In this particular scene, the use the transition was to emphasise the connection between the character and her flashbacks from the past. This indicts to the audience the narrative is based on those haunting memories, which suggests drama because it follows characters life journey. Originally, this was not part of our storyboard, while editing we realised that we had a lot of improvised footage that was unused. Therefore we started playing around with editing and liked the outcome, as it made the scene for dynamic.
It’s conventional for a drama to contain some form of conflict. To construct this scene we used the effect dip to black to signify time has passed; used “cross dissolve” to transition into the argument scene. Using continuity editing cross cut we were able to alternate between the two characters; to intensify tension we used the tool time remapping to speed up camera movement between the two characters by 8.00x. Initially, we were going to keep the audio in the footage however during editing, we decided to replace it with a voiceover of the ambulance services, which I feel is impactful and leaves enigmas.
Lighting is key in creating the right atmosphere and another important element to create an effective trailer. Usually, Drama tends to use lighting that is naturalistic or cool- blue/ green tones. We adjusted the colour grading lighting black to 13, which dimed the brightness in the footage. Furthermore, also changed the colour grading (RGB) to red-98, green 108 and blue-113, and colour saturation to -29.0. This helped illustrate the seriousness of the trailer, which helped create a tense atmosphere- conforming to drama.
In our trailer we focused on the use of sound, this was an area of weakness in our production for AS, we used a combination of non- diegetic, diegetic and voice-overs this year. We used conventional soundtracks that conformed to drama such as Orchestral and instrumental. Depending on the stage in the narrative we applied different soundtracks.For example in development stage we layered the different music together, the software provides us with a timeline making it simple to do. Additionally, we adjusted the volume to make sure it didn’t overpower the dialogue and also for a smoother transition between soundtracks we used effects fade in and fade out. In our production, we didn’t use much dialogue between characters because there were problems with the audio in some of the footage. However, we decide to add voice over instead such as the ambulance services, which I feel is more effective because it leaves audience curious to find out more.
Lighting is key in creating the right atmosphere and another important element to create an effective trailer. Usually, Drama tends to use lighting that is naturalistic or cool- blue/ green tones. We adjusted the colour grading lighting black to 13, which dimed the brightness in the footage. Furthermore, also changed the colour grading (RGB) to red-98, green 108 and blue-113, and colour saturation to -29.0. This helped illustrate the seriousness of the trailer, which helped create a tense atmosphere- conforming to drama.
In our trailer we focused on the use of sound, this was an area of weakness in our production for AS, we used a combination of non- diegetic, diegetic and voice-overs this year. We used conventional soundtracks that conformed to drama such as Orchestral and instrumental. Depending on the stage in the narrative we applied different soundtracks.For example in development stage we layered the different music together, the software provides us with a timeline making it simple to do. Additionally, we adjusted the volume to make sure it didn’t overpower the dialogue and also for a smoother transition between soundtracks we used effects fade in and fade out. In our production, we didn’t use much dialogue between characters because there were problems with the audio in some of the footage. However, we decide to add voice over instead such as the ambulance services, which I feel is more effective because it leaves audience curious to find out more.
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