Editing Process; Colour Masking

Adding a colour mask:

For this one shot we wanted the colour of focus to be red, whilst all the other colours in the shot were drained and more dull. We did this buy creating a colour mask, a colour mask isolates a particular colour on an image. On the selected clip, we went onto the colour collection bar in the effects section. Then we selected the Apply masks section. This then makes the colour mask parameter appears in the same section as the video inspector. As the mask parameter appears we then enlarged it and dragged it to fit the entire section of the post box as that was the iconic piece of set we wanted our audience to focus on. As we changed the size of the parameter the rest of the image becomes monochrome/ a more drained. We used a lot of mask parameters to make sure that the entire section of the post box was filled to create our desired effect. We then played around with the different shadows, mid-tones and exposure levels that we could use on our monochrome section of the shot until we found a colour shot which had a bit of colour, so it wasn't black and white.

Overlaying Shots:

We had two shots which we really liked of Megan walking towards the post box and posting a mysterious item. We really wanted a way to incorporate these two shots into our trailer without it becoming too repetitive, doing a shot overlay was a really good way to do this. To create this overlay we cut both of our shots and dragged one on top of the other. We then played around with the opacity and the burning techniques on final cut pro which gave us different ideas of how the two shots could be incorporated together through using different colours etc. Both of the shots had the colour masking technique so they blended really well together and created an effective and different technique.

Editing Process

Editing of our trailer:

The first part of our editing process of our trailer was too insert a 'Restricted audience' warning. We thought this was necessary as when when analysing other trailers we noticed that they almost always had the film rating at the beginning or end of their trailer. This is something that has to feature at the beginning of every film trailer, as if you are a parent with a small child, about to watch a trailer, it informs you right away that you should not encourage your children to watch the film/trailer to this film as it involves content that it not suitable for everyone.

In our film trailer, we knew it was vital that we used an establishing shot of London, as in most action films they use a birds eye view of the location they are filming in. We needed an establishing shot of London, but obviously this was not practical and impossible for us to do. Therefore we used a found shot of London. We then cut out the parts of this shot using the blade tool on Final Cut Pro, so only the more profound landmarks of London were seen. We did this as it meant we would target a larger audience due to the amount of tourist's these landmarks attract. The next thing we did was added in subtitles at the bottom left hand corner of the shot, adding the date and location of the shot, this makes the audience aware of the time period and where the film is set. We thought that adding these subtitles fitted in quite well with the genre as it is quite a common feature in action films, as often action films are filmed and set in various different locations worldwide. Obviously we didn't have the ability to be able to film in loads of different countries, but the subtitles set the idea of filming in loads of locations. Once we had cut our shots we added a type writer sound for a professional effect.







We wanted our characters to be introduced in our trailer, we started of with a long shot of Megan walking towards the camera. We think this shot is effective as in the background it looks really busy on the roads, yet the character is on her own walking, meaning that she looks really isolated and endangered on her own.

As she gets closer to the camera, she then turns her head as if something dangerous is behind her, we slowed down this shot to build the tension and create a sense of danger as the audience won't know whats behind her. At this point her character is introduced, we used slow motion, then pull focus to blur out the shot, her name then appears so the focus of the shot moves so its on her name.

We got the inspiration of showing her name like this, partly from the film Legend, we really liked the way the characters got introduced in this trailer, so we experimented on final cut, until we found a way which suited our film. The font we used was quite toned down, and not in your face, which we quite like as it fits our theme.

One shot that we were really pleased with in our trailer was this low shot which focused on our characters feet running. In the middle of this shot our character drops her gun, this creates a suspicious effect and makes the audience want to know what is going on behind her and ask multiple questions such as; why is she dropping her gun? Who is behind her? What is about to happen next? We slowed down this shot so that the dropping of the gun is seen more vividly and moves across the screen in slow motion so that is something that the audience have to notice. The black gun is an iconic feature of our trailer so the audience have to see it.