Editing Video

Not much editing was required because of the style I chose for this trailer. If it was intended to be fast paced, I'd need shots with really dynamic movements and to cut between clips very frequently.

Instead I have used more dissolves, but simple cutting is done where necessary. If all clip transitions where dissolves it would be too slow.

The trailer BEGINS with the 'GREEN BAND' approval notice. Most standard film trailers begin with this, to confirm that the material is appropriate to the given audience. I clocked the time period which this is shown to be around 4 seconds. If the trailer were to contain material which was too extreme for younger audiences, then it would instead open with the 'RED BAND' notice, which informs viewers if the material is restricted.

In the TIMELINE, you can see the opening logo's follow this approval board after a period of blackness - this dark period is where the music builds up and then the logos begin to show, TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX first, which then fades into my-own MIDNIGHT PICTURES.

The first shot of the trailer had to be eye catching. I was lucky enough to find a disused coldwar BUNKER on Helsby Hill in which I could get footage similar to what I had story-boarded, only with the character ascending a grotty ladder instead of leaving a door, which bleaches out to white,

The editing process from here on out was fairly repetative. I used the footage I had gathered and created to splice together in an order which felt appropriate to the soundtrack and made sure there was no break in continuity.