Editing process

Throughout the editing process we struggled to find suitable music and to ensure that the trailer wasn't any longer than convetionally it should be. Our filming schedule became rendered useless when certain shots couldn't be shot in just one day. Overall we filmed on around 5 different occassions, and even filmed right up into the last week. We used the same font for our titles as in the film title, which we found on http://www.dafont.com/. We the had to create the titles as pictures and add these into our film. As we struggled to make any contact with the copyright owners of the buddy holly song we originally wanted and plans to create our own music fell through as the group was all extremely busy we decided to find copyright free music on the internet. We chose an acoustic song as this added a light hearted and warm feeling to the trailer and was also reminicent of the film 'Juno' which we have drawn most inspiration from. The music had to be edited as it wasn't originally long enough to fit the whole trailer, so we had to add it in twice and repeat certain sections. We also recorded a voice over as was suggested in the audience feedback and re-shot the two opening shots. The voice over was said in an American accent as our film is American and made for good continuity. We used a male voice as conventionally, a male would be the voice over for most profit making films. We had to cut a number of shots short so that they ran quickly as a comedy teaser trailer usually would. This also allowed the trailer to be a bit shorter and fit the conventional time of a teaser trailer, under a minute.
The whole process was a lot easier this time round than last year as I felt more comfortable using Pinnacle. I was more aware of how things should be edited and how possible it was to create different effects. We had a wider range of camera shots we could try out and we were also more comfortable with the technology this year. Overall this helped us vastly improve the work we produced.