Post productions

When creating our magazine front cover, film poster and trailer we used a combination of Adobe Premiere elements 10, YouTube and Photoshop.
Photoshop enabled us to manipulate our imagery making it feel more like a poster/magazine cover. It enabled us to put filters on the image and enhance parts of the photo changing the lighting etc. with all the different tools. It also enabled us to put text on our images which is particularly important when creating the magazine front cover, we were able to change the font size, colour and style to fit with the vibe that we wanted. As the other group members take photography they had past experience using this software making the process much easier to pick up new skills. We were able to place the bar code over the top of the image layering them on top of one another which also helped make it more professional. The snipping tool also allowed us to cut down images to our chosen size which was another very useful tool.

The main editing tool we used was Adobe Premiere Elements 10 as this allowed us to cut/crop footage, place it all together and put effects and transitions on it. Although we didn't fully explore all of the effects that could be placed over the footage we did use alpha adjust on several occasions. This made the lighting appear much darker conforming to the stereotype of horror film as the darkness connotes danger and mystery. We also used the fade transition to help smooth out the cross cuts between two different locations, this is also conventional of trailers as it helps to break it up more so it doesn't look like an opening two minutes. As we used the same program when editing last year we had past experience using it so were able to use tools that we had learnt how to use last year, for example the time lapse tool was used in our opening two minutes and in our trailer to make the victim appear as if she was running away quickly. When editing we were also able to explore different font types so we used Adobe to create our title as well, this program allowed us to create a bold white title which is what we wanted as its conventional of horror films.

We also used Youtube to research several types of non-copyright music, although we decided not to use any of these it was extremely useful when researching and enabled us to decide what soundtrack we wanted to use. Last year in AS I used non-copyright music from youtube but this year we decided we wanted to try record it ourselves and although this was effective we could have used an underlying soundtrack to go over the whole trailer. The sound track that we recorded was conventional of horror films as it sounded like a child and helped to build tension however it could have been improved to sound more like singing rather than chanting. Youtube also helped us in the post production when we wanted to analyse our trailer because of the use of the annotation tool, this allowed us to write comments all over our trailer explaining the shot types and editing decisions that we made.