I will evaluate my trailer in sections so that I don’t overlap myself.
Starting with the story it portrays I feel I was able to cut and rearrange scenes effectively and that the full minute playback makes sense and follows easily. In the making of this I was able to simply mark in and out the parts of a long video that I wanted to utilise and then cut any discrepancies down with the razor tool on the time line. The razor tool was really efficient for removing extras or splitting scenes so that individual points could be altered without it effecting the entire section. This is a technique that I used for the backing track so that I could alter the volume levels differently depending on what was playing at the same time as the music. The piece on a whole plays smoothly I feel and is fairly seamless with the exception of one or two places. As I mentioned in my first trailer write up, I used transitions tactically in some places to remove any jars in the flow of the video. For example, I used a dip to black in between the scenes of Gandalf and Saruman talking and Saruman sitting because it really didn’t fit well at all; I used this transition in particular to emphasize the movement Saruman makes in front of the camera and the dissolve effects didn’t execute this as well as Dip to black did.
I believe that I used the appropriate transitions and in the appropriate places. I didn’t want to be overbearing with the use of transitions or effects as I don’t believe quantity makes the quality necessarily better.
I’m happy that I took the time to split the backing track as I mentioned before instead of having one continuous volume all the way through the trailer. I wanted to be able to change the focal points aurally to convey the atmosphere or the dialect that was occurring at that moment of viewing. I sparsely used transitions/effects on the audio track, mainly because I think I achieved what I wanted before adding these in, however the gradient audio transition does remove some of the staccato volume changes.
I had some trouble with changing resolution and I did not alter the frame rates whatsoever. I mentioned in my trailer blog post that I did not use tools or methods that I learned, such as using a still image to make a moving piece and I know that from this I have lacked to show skills and techniques that I absolutely should have incorporated. Another issue I faced was with the title page image at the very end of the trailer. I made this in Photoshop, but did not set any specific dimensions to it. As a result of this the image was completely enlarged and out of focus when I imported it into Premiere. I had to re-edit this image multiple times, but this has ended being a stretched image instead of one with the correct dimensions.
To look at the piece as a whole, including the methods I used to achieve it, I know that I could have done much better, but to not be overly critical I am still pleased with the outcome. I stuck to the research I had carried out to keep a theme and atmosphere that correlated with the fantasy genre and if I was to make a comparison I believe that I could pin point similarities in the order and general feel of the information it gives out.
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