Editing Final Phase

Having filmed the final scene for my soap opera trailer, I now had to incorporate it into the trailer correctly, making sure it fit perfectly into the footage I already have. At first, after selecting all of the footage I wanted to use, I simply placed it onto the end of the trailer, adding it as an extra full length scene. However, I wasn't particularly happy with this as it didn't quite fit the ending properly, and just looked like it had been added haphazardly. Therefore I experimented with adding different shots throughout the piece, littering the old footage with the new footage, acting as a montage and perhaps an insight into the future and how the trailer ends for the detective. This seemed to suit the piece bet, again in keeping with the idea of flashbacks and that different scenes are intertwined and linked with one another, thus getting the major plot points across quicker. The music also managed to in keep perfectly with what is happening on screen, building and dropping in time to the events. In between these new shots I have added the fade to black transition to give the effect of the 'flashback' and to help the audience keep up with what is happening without getting too confused. I haven't added the 'Romantic' effect on these shots as I wanted the audience to distinguish that the scenes of Ellie are flashbacks, whereas the new scenes of the detective walking around an abandoned locker room replicated what was happening in the present/future. The piece then fades to black, this is then prepared for when I import my TV logo and title which I made on Adobe creative suite using photoshop, after effects and premiere pro and Adobe Media Encoder. I also downloaded a soundtrack off of Youtube and imported it into iTunes, this was relatively easy by using media converter software online, then when the music downloaded it automatically converted into iTunes, from there it was easy to locate my file and import it into iTunes to use in my trailer. Having looked at this edited footage throughout, I realised the narrative perhaps needed something to guide it through the storyline, therefore I have added subtitles to add more intrigue to the trailer for the audience. The text says, 'Even the smallest of towns...Can hold the biggest of secrets' After this I had my peers give me constructive criticism, to see what they liked and disliked about the footage so far. From this I realised some of my clips were too long, therefore I clipped a lot of the footage where the detective is just walking, as well as getting rid of certain shots that were fairly blurry. On one part of the detective's dialogue I clipped the footage as it became fairly blurry at the end, therefore I trimmed the clip and bridged the audio over the next clip of Ellie running through the forest so that the audience still heard his dialogue. Also the ending of my footage was fairly grainy when the detective is looking up at his attacker, therefore I am going to re-shoot this scene and get a better image of the detective falling to the ground and being on the floor. I have also removed the heartbeat effect I had previously added onto the end of the trailer, after experimenting with this sound, I found that the piece didn't need it as the soundtrack was already intense enough. I also experimented with the Ken Burns effect on iMovie, zoning in on the image of the detective's flask, then zooming outwards to finish the shot. This helped to focus the audience's attention on certain aspects of the clip that were integral to the plot line, in particular this part tying in with the detective's backstory. I have also added an interactive element onto my trailer this being the use of a hashtag to in keep with modern audiences and the role of new social media technologies in the TV industry today. The #SaveEllie will encourage audiences to get involved online and make a wider scope of audience for my trailer.