Editing And Post Production

We edited the footage on Adobe Premiere Pro which was different to Final Cut Pro but meant that I was able to learn a new program with different effects. The Adobe Creative Cloud Package also came with After Effects and Photoshop. After Effects helped us with colour correction and adding grain and noise to create a sort of Super Eight, vintage effect whereas Premiere Pro gave us a very accurate and easily navigable program to create our trailer with.

We added images over the top where festival logos and our own production logo were edited so that the black was transparent and they could be placed over our own footage. 

Here is an example of layering footage during the montage sequence. We altered the opacity so that you could see both shots together in one frame. 

Choice Of Font

We chose a basic font, Avenir, inspired by the trailer for the Romantic Drama 'Carol'. We wanted to keep it simple to compliment the aesthetics and avoid something to bold and extravagant. 

Across all three of our ancillary products we used a variation of this font, from 'Avenir Medium' to "Avenir Light' and simply 'Avenir', occasionally placing it in bold for emphasis, and keeping it thin and simple for a more subtle effect. We made sure that we kept the font the same for continuity across our trailer, poster and website. 

Difficulties Encountered When Editing

Audience Feedback

After we had finished the first draft of our trailer, we had a feedback session where fellow media students watched our trailer and filled out these forms. The top picture shows what our main improvements were and how many people agreed followed by some examples of our forms. In total, we received 19 feedback forms which helped us greatly.


In addition, once our trailer was completed, we posted a survey on our Facebook page to see what our audience thought of our trailer. This was the response to the last question.

By posting our trailer on our Facebook page, we were also able to get feedback through the comment feature.