2. Software!
Now that I have finished all my filming for my horror teaser trailer, it is
time to start putting it all together!
By this, I mean using software such as Adobe Premier Pro. I will be using
this for the actual process of making my footage into an actual trailer.
This software allows me to do all the essential editing such as cutting
scenes to make them smaller, putting my clips into the correct order,
playing around with the lighting and sound; making things darker or
lighter.
It is also really helpful when transitioning from scene to scene, it allows
me to ease the cuts together in a more interesting way than just going
straight from one to another.
Premier Pro actually allows me to improve the quality of the image
It is basically the perfect software to use, to make my trailer as
professional as possible.
3. Beginning of the
trailer!
10th February 2015- What you are seeing in these print
screens from Premier Pro, is the first few seconds of my trailer.
I felt it was necessary to include features like this as it makes
my trailer seem far more professional and authentic. It is
conventional for trailer to display this kind of information and
it creates continuity between the rest of my promotional
package, as I have stated on my teaser poster that the film
is involved with both Warner Bros. and Hammer.
• For the ‘Green band’ aspect of the trailer, which is the first
thing we see, I simply took a still from google and saved it
in my documents. Them imported in onto Premier Pro, and
placed it into the trailer.
• For both the Hammer and Warner Bros. aspects, I scored
the clips from YouTube, then using a converting website, I
converted them from mp3 files, to mp4 files, meaning they
would play as a video. I then downloaded the files, and
again imported them into Premier Pro and placed them
into the trailer. I of course had to cut them down using the
cutting tool to make them the right kind of length to fit the
conventions of a trailer.
4. The next thing I did for the production of my trailer was actually change the way the image
looked, by making it darker as I wanted it to be low-key lighting throughout; something I have
been very keen on through the planning process, as it is very conventional to horror.
I also felt the image I was getting, especially during the in-door footage, was far too light
anyway, and even if it wasn’t horror I would tone it down anyway, to make everything more
visible and better looking.
To make these changes I simply went
into Effects, then Video effects and
changed the brightness and contrast.
I used the same levels of -56.2 for
brightness and 1.5 for contrast
throughout the trailer, creating
continuity and making it seem more
authenic. I then also went into the
cinematic effects a used ‘Bleach
Bypass 2’ over the top.
Before After
11th February 2015-
5. The next thing I decided to do, now that I had the image quality where I wanted
it, was actually change how the different clips of film transitioned from one to
another. I knew from my research that I wanted to use a lot of fade to black
throughout the different scenes as it is conventional and makes the trailer look
scarier and more authentic.
I went ahead with this plan and managed to use the ‘Dip to black’ tool available
in Premier Pro, from the transition effects.:
o After I found the effect, I simply dragged
It across and placed it on the film clip I
wanted to fade to black. The best part about
this tool was being able to make the clip not
just fade out into black, but fade in with black
as well. You could choose which end of the
film clip you placed the transition. It has made
it so my eniter piece has continuity and blends
together well, making important scenes stand
out more.
Dip to black effect
11th February 2015-
6. Sound!
The next thing I had to do using Premier Pro for the production of my trailer was
actually give it some sound effects! The first thing I went about doing was locating
the theme song for warner bros, which I have already stated, has been used in my
trailer. To do this I simply found the file on YouTube, and converted in to mp3 and
downloaded the file, then uploaded in to premier pro. I also placed all the
downloaded files in my very own play list on sound cloud, here are some examples:
Converting the videos to mp3 files!
13th February 2015-
7. Once I had the sounds effects I wanted and in the correct format, I could
actually go about placing them into my trailer. The process of doing this is exactly
like placing a clip into Premier pro, you just simply select the clip of sound you
want, and drag it across! Now the most important part is pacing the clip of sound
in the correct place, under the right clip of film you would like the music to play
over!
Clips of film
Clips of sound
You can edit and change
the clips of sound in the
preview area just like clips
of film! For example I had
to shorten a lot of my
sound clips to make them
fit correctly!
13th February 2015-
8. The final touch I made to my teaser horror trailer was to add in the voice over at the very end,
over the coming soon credits. This process was exactly the same as adding all the other sounds
clips- I literally recorded the voice over using a microphone that was connected to one of the
Mac computers, on the software Final Cut Pro. I then saved the file and re-opened it on Premier
Pro, and added it to my trailer.
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