End of Film Trailer

As me and my group began to come to the end of editing the footage which we had filmed , the film trailer was finished at a length of 2 minutes and 56 seconds which we thought was most appropriate for a film trailer. As our film trailer had been viewed by many class members during the period of editing, once the film trailer was shown to the class they stated that a marked improvement had been made to the footage through the effects and editing of the clips that had taken place over the last week. I look forward to getting more feedback from students and hope to continue to make further improvements.

Editing Footage

Over the past week me and my group members have been continuing with editing the footage which we filmed for the film trailer. We have concentrated on cutting down the Unnecessary parts of the clips that we filmed to make the film trailer as a whole more dramatic and thrilling which is our main aim. Once we had cut down the clips we managed to get the full film trailer size down from a total of 4 minutes to 2 minutes 50 s. We then looked at the effects we could add to the clips in the form of slowing the clips down for more intense drama which on some clips we did use. We also focused on adding a number of transitions such as fading in and out in certain clips to add that sense of mystery. The editing stage has been a very important stage for us as it is important that we portray a certain message to the audience. We will continue to add the final touches to our film trailer in the form of the company which has created the film along with cutting clips down further and adding different effects to portray a certain message to the audience. We decided to add text on screen during the trailer to interest more people as well as create a dramatic atmosphere these were

• They thought they would be happy
• They were wrong
• One woman saw it all
• He stands accused
• He had to go back
• The Exchange
• Coming soon

One of the most important aspects that we needed to add to the trailer was a soundtrack which was entitled "'Mind Heist" by Zach Hemsey. This soundtrack began as soon as the trailer begins to play. The soundtrack was carefully picked as we wanted the soundtrack to provide an epic yet dramatic feel to the film trailer and to improve the audiences understanding of the film trailer. 

End Of filming & Start editing

Me and my group have continued to film our film trailer entitled "The Exchange". We filmed the scenes that we intended to in London. The reason that we chose London to film in is because we wanted to make sure that we concentrated on the mise en scene to make the film look realistic. The scenes that we filmed were those of the ex government agent running with the witness around London with scenes being filmed of various locations within London. We filmed the ex government agent speaking to the kidnappers to ask what there demands are to return the husbands wife We then see the witness and the ex government agent look at the MI6 building within London which security files need to be used to give to the kidnappers. . We then see the ex government agent  using a computer to access the files that the kidnappers want along with £500,000. After we had filmed this , we began to film the ending of the film trailer. All of the parties involved in the trailer are at one location , with the husbands wife holding a gun , first at the kidnappers to then turn to her husband. At this point the trailer will have ended with a cut to black along with a gun shot.

Once all the filming had been completed, we began to analyse the footage and start the process of editing the footage. As we have only just started this editing process, we have not edited much of the footage. We have focused on cutting down the clips, adding effects such as fading to black to try and get the right message to the audience. This message is that of mystery as we want the audience to start thinking about how the story could unfold. Me and my group will continue to edit the footage in the next few weeks.