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Usage of iMovie

I decided to use iMovie for some elements as I found that it had more effects available then on Adobe Premier Pro, and these were easier to do. For example, there is a short scene within the trailer where I distorted the actress's voice, to make it sound more deeper. I done this deliberately as this is a convention which is used in movies when someone is possessed by the devil, as it implies that its the devil speaking through the human body. I done this by readjusting the sound levels, and slowing down the duration.

Another feature I used on iMovie was for the short clip which is shown right at the end of the trailer. The effect I used here was simply to just change the levels of the clip, which made the colour lighter.

Finally, I found it easier to create the text which was included within the trailer, on iMovie, as they had a range of effects to choose from. I experimented with a few, and showed it to the rest of my team members to decide which one looked the best. I had to adjust the duration of each clip as well, so that they would all be in sync with one and another.

I had to export the pieces I created from iMovie in order to be able to include it from my trailer. Each clip was formatted to avi, which I was able to do straight from iMovie.

Making the Production Title

My group and I had quite a few ideas for the production title, but none of them went according to plan. Lewis had worked on our original idea for the title, which was 'Terror Films.' This did have animation with it, which consisted of the text moving towards the screen, and then fading out. However, I wasn't too happy with this, and suggested to have a glass shattering sort of effect, and Lewis had tried this out in Adobe Premiere. This turned out to not look quite as we hoped it would, and then Namibia and I decided that we should change the name of the production title altogether. 

When I came home, I was playing about with iMovie on my MacBook and came across some production title's that were available on the software. 

I thought these looked really good, and professional too, so I showed it to the rest of my team the next day. However, it was pointed out that we couldn't exactly use these, as they are the actual productions of real companies, such as Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures. I then came across another type of title which iMovie had, which wasn't linked to a real company.

I then came across this title which was also available on iMovie, and thought this looked good as the colours seemed to be just right, as they were dark, linking it well to the movie. I showed it to my group and the liked it too, and we came up with the name 'Pyramid Films' for the production title, as it relates back to the image. It was fairly straightforward to do this, as I just had to fill out the name and some other details in iMovie, and select which title I wanted to use. 

Green Preview Screen

While we were editing the footage for the trailer, I remembered that in order to make it look like a professional trailer, we needed to include key conventions which are used. This consisted of having a green screen right at the beginning of the trailer, which would only last for a few seconds. We decided to use Google for research, and to see whether they had one that we could use.

As it shows from the above picture, Google didn't appear to have many images of the green preview screen. Furthermore, they were mainly to do with American movies and audiences, whereas we wanted to have a British one as this is where out movie would show first.

Originally, we thought it would look better if we had the age rating on the green preview screen too, somewhere in the corner. However, after looking at the images, it came to our understanding that this isn't included here, but at the end of the trailer and also on the actual certificate of the movie, which wouldn't be in our trailer, as this is only shown before the movie starts.

After doing more research, my group and I realised that a green preview screen is more to do with American audiences; nevertheless, this didn't stop us from wanting to include this in our trailer, as this does make the trailer look professional.

We then decided to just use an image from Google, verifying that our movie has been certified.