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Making and Animating titles
Apart from the main titles, all titles were made using the standard 'still title' in Adobe Premiere Pro. Unlike iMovie, these were not pre loaded, so I had the opportunity to modify the appearance of the titles. This allowed me customise the typography in a manner which was appropriate to a trailer. The purple was modified by me selecting a shade that stood out against the black background. Similarly, the gold typography for the word "Crowns" was customised to make it a gold that had connotations of royalty - as opposed to a murky brown!
I also experimented with typography size and asked people to give me verbal feedback as to whether they thought it was a suitable size and a central position. Eventually they said yes!
To make my titles appear more interesting, I dedcided to add some fog that would add a sinister and ambiguous element to my coursework production. I did not create this effect myself, instead I found it on a YouTube clip which I proceeded to convert to an mp4.
To begin with, I wanted to make my titles more interesting so attempted to achieve the letters of "Malice" coming in one by one by duplicating a title and then editing it. While this worked to some extent, it didn't look very fluid. As a result, one of my teachers recommended that I use After Effects, a software which would serve to 'properly' animate the titles, taking effects from Adobe Bridge. I chose an effect called Rainfall, and am happy with this because it resulted in my trailer looking more professional and animated.

Post Production: Making my ident

I decided to take an existing image of a grotto from my mood board. I edited it in Premiere by making the colour monochrome and applying an emboss filter. I found this to be effective as the monochrome colour meant that it appeared more sinister, something which is conventional of the dark fantasy genre. I wanted to ensure that the name of my production company and the ident were related to one another, so I chose the name 'Grotto Productions.' A grotto is also commonly associated with the fantasy genre as it is an ambiguous external location, home to many fantastical creatures in fairytales.

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Overlaying
I had some long clips which were significant to the trailer and contributed to the variation of camera shots. However, I was aware that trailers do not typically utilise long pieces of footage. Therefore I wanted to be more creative with the shots that I had and found that this could be achieved by overlaying other footage on top. By making the footage underneath black and white, it made the overlaid footage take prominence. The overlaying was achieved by me placing the footage above the long clip, and reducing the opacity of it so that it was visible. I think that is effective because it would help to sustain audience engagement but it also adds an element of ambiguity and enigma to my coursework production.

An example of overlaying in my trailer

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In Premiere, when trying to recreate something similar to what I made in iMovie, I decided to add video effects to clips. This entailed experimenting with filters to enhance and alter the colour of the footage in order to adhere to the fantasy genre. The effect I predominantly used is called "Brightness to contrast" which allows you to modify both the lighting effect (bright/dull) of the clips and the intensity of the colours (whether the contrast is obvious).
I tended to decrease the brightness of the clips to give the clip a cold-looking effect, linking to the sinister element of the dark fantasy genre. Also, I have made the contrast obvious by radically altering this. As a result, the colours are striking. For instance, red, which is symbolic of blood and danger stands out, making it more of a feature in the trailer.
I decided to experiment with filters to make my product more engaging for the audience. This means that I have switched between monochrome and colour.This subverts conventions of trailers because usually they have one specific colour.

In the video above I am changing the colours of one of my clips using the Brightness to contrast effect on Adobe Premiere Pro.

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Once I had ordered the clips, I put them in sequence in a timeline. I found this task arduous because I wanted to be precise in placing and fixing the duration of the clips.I found this process difficult because I was not familiar with the programme. This led me to use iMovie.

In iMovie, I created a draft trailer so that I had a better idea of what I wanted to recreate in Premiere. This gave me confidence because it felt less overwhelming; it was more structured. Obviously it could have been more accurate (for example, iMovie uses stock titles) but it allowed me to achieve my objective.

Editing the iMovie version

The above screenshot exemplifies the stock titles which iMovie offer.  

Editing the sound

The video above shows the sound before and after editing. I used GarageBand to edit the sound. I decided to use sound similar to that of Pan's Labyrinth (2006) in my trailer as a piece of non diegetic sound. This was achieved through converting a YouTube video to an MP4 file.

I think this is the sound that I used. It was either used in or inspired by Pan's Labyrinth - I haven't seen the film!

Post Production: Editing (1)

Once I finished the production stages (filming) of my coursework, I began editing the trailer. I started off by importing all of the clips into Adobe Premiere Pro which allowed me to see clearly how to order the clips. Some of this was similar to my story board, however at times I improvised because the trailer did not look the same in practice.For example,the opening shot in my story board is a close up of the antagonist lying down. However I was filming outside and due to weather conditions it wasn't suitable to do so.
Ordering the footage was time consuming because I had to look through and find the best clips. There is a lot of surplus footage that I have not used because  of quality issues such as the clip being out of focus,experimental camera work and uneven lighting. I also had issues with perimeters of filming; it was a public place and this meant that members of the public kept coming into shot.

Here is a screenshot of some unused footage on account of blurriness

Here is a screenshot of some unused footage on account of overexposure