The Editing Process - For First Cut

When it came to editing the first draft of the trailer, we decided to use iMovie because we have used it before so have experience with it and also Georgia has access to the software at home on her iMac which meant we could edit it outside of school. This allowed us to focus on the more important aspects at school during our lessons and then could edit outside of school.

The process that took the longest was going through all of the footage we had and then trying to select the ones that were appropriate and would work well. Once that was done, it meant we could start to pick which clips would go in what order but we had to make sure everything all flowed together. This task was time consuming because we had to make sure that the dialogue could be heard and that no other sounds were heard such as, the camera moving. The image above shows some of the processes we did, we had to cut certain clips to the right length that we needed and then put them in the right order. During this process we made the decision to reshoot some scenes because we felt that it was not the best footage to use and wanted to make everything perfect. One of the scenes you can see an umbrella in the corner of the camera so we knew we would have to reshoot that scene. Therefore we are scheduling a time that suits all of us in order to film again.

Unfortunately in certain clips the sound was quite weak because of many factors like the wind for example; this meant we had to detach and delete the sound or make the sound quieter. From researching similar trailers we realised that many use a background song in order to stop the audience from getting bored, as well as the voiceover done by Leanne Brown as her character we also added some sad background music. Even though we knew we wanted to add background music and also a voiceover, it proved harder than we thought because in some clips it meant that you couldn’t hear the dialogue between the characters.

The overall process turned out to be very consuming but it was beneficial for us to produce a first draft so that we could show it to our target audience and gain some feedback from them.