Post Production

Stuart was incharge of edting of the film. However a Director I was present overseeing the editing, contributing ideas aswell as making sure the editing worked cohesively together and ran smoothly. Jack got all of the sound and music that we needed for the film.

We used Final Cut Express to edit our movie, alternatively we had access to iMovie but we felt iMovie did not have enough advanced functions at hand for us to use to create as high quality project that we hoped for. Final Cut also allowed us to be able to export the movie file in different ways and sizes.

We changed the canvas size to cater for the HD video we had recorded. To do this you press ctrl+c on the canvas, then make it 1080p size. One drawback of this is that it increased render time however we will have a better final result and give us less limitation when we finally export it.

We had an issue with directly inporting the clips into Final Cut. What we did to get around this was to import the footage into iMovie then exporting it to the desktop. Then we copiend the clips into my resources on Final Cut.

 First we cut all the clips that we didn't want and imported the sounds that we ould be using.

We created a saturated effect with a deep blue hue for later use. The  logo we had created  for Back Alley Productions and Isolation on Paint Shop Pro we copied onto the timeline.

We started with the two pieces of text that would be in the trailer. We used sound accents when the test came up which focuesed the viewers attention and made it so the text moved slighlty.

There was a very interesting clip we had filmed of the antagonist walking towards the car. In this clip the headlights turned on and off, as he walked closer. My idea was that we should edit the trailer  so that between the flashes of light we had other parts of the film. This helped to balance the trailer and gave an interesting effect as the story is gradually revealed. Stuart came up with an interesting light ray effect which enhanced these clips.

Jack was able to obtain a compilation track of different movie trailer songs. We listened to all of them carefully before selecting the one that we felt was most approriate for the film. It was slightly too long for what we wanted it for, so we had to cut it down a bit.

Using the internet we looked up what exporting settings would give us the best quality for our project. We exported using QuickTime Conversion, then made the format a QuickTime Movie file as opposed to an AVI or mpeg-4. Then we changed the compression type to PNG which is the best for exporting in HD, then made it export with millions of colours. Because our file wasn't a DV file, we had to make the size just "current" which we found was 720 x 404 pixels which we then de-interlaced. For the sound, we just made it the best quality possible, as a lot of the trailer was very sound orientated. I then un-checked the link to make it ready for internet streaming as this compresses the file which lowers the quality.