Editing: Footage

The film trailer for In The Shadows was edited on Adobe Premiere Pro. We selected the clips we wanted to use, as we filmed more than we needed and did several takes of some scenes. We then cut them down to a suitable length. We had already planned that the first section of our trailer would feature slow paced editing and the second section would consist of fast paced editing. In addition, we had obviously decided that our trailer was going to be a montage with non-chronological editing, as most trailers are.

Once we had selected and cut the clips, we were able to arrange them in a rough order based on our storyboard. It then became easier to visuale what our trailer was going to look like. Some of the clips were filmed when it was still light, however we wanted it to appear to be night time, so we changed the opacity to create this illusion. We found this was very effective.

At only one point did we have two consecutive shots depicting the same event - we had a high angle shot and then a mid shot of Holly waking up. Due to the fact that we only had one camera we had to film these shots at seperate times, meaning that when we came to edit it we had to ensure that the timing was perfect and that the shot looked natural.

The main transition used in the trailer is a fade to black, although we only used this transition a few times. It tended to be at the end of a group of clips, such as at the end of the slower section. At one stage, we tried adding a fade to balck between every clip but we thought that this was too cliche as well as not actually adding anything to the experience of watching the trailer.




Despite the fact that we created the title on Adobe Photoshop rather than Premiere Pro, we still used a transition on the title. As the last clip before the title is a candle being blown out, we continued with this theme and the effect on the title makes it appear that it has been blown in.