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Editing & Constructing the Teaser Trailer There were a countless number of stages and actions involved in constructing the teaser trailer. In this document I have highlighted some of the many processes my group and I went through when constructing the ‘Vacancy on Violet Hill’ teaser trailer. The processes I have highlighted can be used to understand how we edited other parts of the teaser trailer. (Note: separate documents have been produced for the construction of the production titles and the ‘Demon Face’.) Pulling Elements together in Adobe Premiere Adobe Premiere was where my group and I edited footage together. Below is an annotated screenshot of our teaser trailer’s workspace.
Transitions – There were two types of transitions we used in our teaser trailer: Cross Dissolves and Dips to black. These were mostly used to abridge our scene and represent a time ellipses. However, we did use them for other purposes.
This is the project window. This is where all of our
lips were stored. We used the project window to drag and drop
lips on the imeline.
We used the effects window primarily for video and audio ransitions. These
needed to be dragged and dropped onto
lips inside the imeline. This is the timeline window.
This is where we ordered and edited our clips to form our teaser trailer.
The source viewer allowed us to identify clips but more importantly it allowed us to edit them by setting in and out points.
Timeline viewer: this allowed us to view the timeline’s edited/constructed teaser trailer
Tools window. Included tools like the razor tool, pen tool and selection tool.
You can see the effect of placing a cross dissolve between two shots on the right hand side. The cross dissolve here was used to embody the father’s thoughts. His son has gone missing demonstrated by the shot of an empty chair. This shot cross dissolves onto a shot of the father’s face pulling an anxious facial expression. This demonstrates how we used cross dissolves effectively in our construction of the teaser trailer.
We chose to place another cross dissolve when the father is raising his torch to the table. As he raises his torch a cross dissolve is used to bridge it with another angle of him raising his torch. It doesn’t look like a cross dissolve because we used the moment where there is a lens flare in the second clip so start the dissolve. This was one piece of editing our group was particularly proud of.
We found that dipping to black was a very effective transition when attempting to represent a time ellipses. However, it was utilised to effect in other parts of the teaser trailer construction.
Using a Dip to black after our second production title allowed us to convey to viewers that the teaser trailer was .
Cross dissolve effect as a transition between two shots.
We placed a dip to black after our second production title. about to formally start.
We also used dips to black in our kitchen scene. As you can see multiple dips to black were used when we wanted to simulate the lights flashing.
Music & Sounds – We also used Premiere to edit sounds and music for our teaser trailer. This included simple audio gains to distortion effects.
We used constant gains to mix sound and music together. Here you can see we mixed together a vinyl crackle with the song ‘Maybe’ for a smooth transition
Premiere allows users to have an infinite number of audio tracks. This came in handy when creating a cinematic experience. It also allowed us to perform things like sound
To the left are the effects we added to the song that was supposed to be playing from the record player. We used a reverb effect and set it according so it sounded like the song had an echo. We then added a delay effect which accentuated the reverb’s echo.
We placed dips to black between shots to simulate flashing lights
A cross gain was put between the crackle of a vinyl and the song ‘Maybe’
We used constant gains and the multiple audio tracks to perform a sound bridge from the houses’ hallway to the houses’ kitchen