14. My Trailer

Unfortunately I had to change from my original idea to use original filming and collaborate that with existing film footage to create the plot idea that I had settled on.

I altered my plan so that I could use solely existing film footage from the Lord of the Rings films and the Hobbit films. I have been able to cut parts of scenes from these trilogys to make a different story for my trailer. I have not been able to showcase any skills that relate to using my own footage, for instance changing the temperatures on clips so that they match the tone and lighting of the existing footage I used.

I have been able to use a variation of skills and tools that are available within Premiere to create this trailer. For starters I arranged my project space with appropriately named bins. I wanted to ensure that all of the fragments that made up the trailer could be easily found.

Import Space

Import Space expanded

Once I had imported the files that I wished to use I worked through them systematically and cut sections from the sequences that I moved over to the timeline. I used the mark in and mark out tools for this function.

As some of the clips have come from different parts of different films I have tactically used transitions such as cross dissolve, non-additive dissolve and dip to black to disguise any minor discrepancies in the footage that I linked together. In a number of places the resolution differs, but unfortunately this is something that I have not been able to rectify. 

My finished timeline

This is the result of my finished timeline. I have the sequences and images running along the first Video line and their own audio attachments below. The last audio line is a backing track that I have added. I used the Razor tool to snip down the audio even though it has not been rearranged, this is so that I could adjust the audio controls for each of the sections. I didn't want the music to overpower any dialect in the trailer, but I did want it to be the main aural piece for every thing else. I have added in some gradient fades to the starts and ends of the audio in some places so that the change in volume is not so drastic. I also reduced the sequences' audio is most places apart from the dialect which I raised to full volume. The module guide laid out that the trailer must not exceed a 1 minute duration and this I managed to successfully achieve; my trailer ends at exactly one minute long.

There are skills that I have that I have not been able to showcase in the trailer that I made such as giving the effect of a still image moving, but I didn't see opportunity in what I wanted to create.