The student was tasked with creating a thriller film trailer for a class project. As they had no experience using Adobe Premiere Elements 9, they researched conventions of thriller trailers and watched tutorial videos on how to use the software. The student storyboarded their trailer, uploaded and organized video clips, added title cards for their production company and intertitles to convey the narrative. Rendering was required to fix timing issues when adding new elements to the project.

1. Editing diary
The class was told we we’re starting on a new unit which was to create our own
film trailer the genre was going to thriller but before doing so I would have to do
some per-production researching allowing me to understand the conventions of a
thriller film trailer.
And as well as that I didn’t know how to use the adobe premiere elements 9 so in
order to understand to use or work this adobe I would have to do some research on
it so I went always and watch verity of Youtube clips explaining how the to get me
started.

2. Due to it being my first time using the adobe primer element i was told to play
around with it first so i could learn and understand how to use it also to help me
out i watched a video clip from YouTube explaining what and how to use it which
helped alot so whenever i got lost i would look back on the video to help me.

3. To get started i would have to
upload the video clip my group had
shoot and then saved on our own
hard-drives put into a folder.
To upload the video clips i would
have to go on get media as shown
on the screen shot above after that
it came up the link shown on the
left saved in the folder named xxx.
I then opened the folder
showing all my clip which i
then selected whichever one i
want to use in my trailer.

4. This screen shot shows the clips that I
upload in order to keep it organized I
created a folder labelled due to where
we shot the clip.
For example labelled a folder called
running scene which is simply just all the
shots of the character running and being
followed all into that folder and I did this
to every other clip.
I then selected what ever clip I liked to
begin the trailer to do I click on a clip
watch and if there was anything I didn’t
like I would put into unwanted folder or
if the clip needed editing I would crop
what I didn’t want in the trailer, as you
can see the screen shot shows me
cropping the clip this was because I had
shot this scene at home but you could
hear my mum in the background so I
cropped unto right before you could hear
here.

5. In this screen shot shows my own
production company that i was
given the task to create in order to
allow the audience to identify my
production company that filmed
the other side name of my thriller
film trailer.
I looked for an image that you can
see as the logo then designed a
creative name to go with it under-
deck production this was because i
believed it would relate to the
image.
In my research of thriller film trailer
i used the conventions so i could
create a realistic trailer by putting
in a production company at the
beginning of the trailer allow the
audience to identify my company.

6. From my research of thriller film trailers I found
out that every trailer began with a normal
equilibrium so I selected the establishing 180 rule
shot to set the scene and while this clip is being
shown the audience can hear one of the
characters talking on the phone this is a use of L-
cup which is one of the conventions every thriller
film trailer.

7. In my research of thriller film trailers
most of them have a narrator
explaining the narrative of the film
but however others use interties
which i decided to do in my trailer
this is so the audience understand
what’s happening so far in the trailer.
As you can see in these two shots
above are two of many interties i
used this because i felt that it was
a better way to tell the audience
the narrative and didn't want to
use a narrator.

8. When making the trailer i had some problems that
needed fixing for example in these screen shots
you can see in the zoomed in screen shot that if i
was to add in something new like clip or intertidal
the green line would turn red.
However in order to over come this i used have to
render by pressing inter giving me the loading
progressing as you can see in the above screen
shot.