Editing Session: 2

This editing session took place on the 27th of Jan, and lasted around 1 hour 30 mins.

In this session we aimed to add more audio to the trailer. For example, Toms voice over for Shaun's monologue over the first part of the trailer, talking about his emotions in a way to somewhat justify his actions in the film. Additionally we wanted to add a song, that gave off the feeling of sadness and at the same time hope. Sam Warren wrote the script for Shauns character, however we noticed that one of the lines was not gramatically correct and so we changed it slightly. Once the script was to a good standard we found a quiet room and I got Tom to read out the lines into the microphone on my iPhone. To capture the audio I decided it was best to use the default voice memo application as it was developed by Apple and released with the phone, pre installed, meaning its is more specialised to work easily with other Apple products like the Apple Mac's. The first few attempts to get Tom to record the script were unsuccessful due to him either laughing or stutering and messing up his flow. Eventually we got a successful recording of him reading the script, however we were unsure of whether he was speaking too quickly for the pace of the footage in the trailer and so we decided to get him to record it again but this time speaking a little bit slower. To assist him with timing I counted him in to speak each line with my fingers.

Once we had finished up recording this we began editing with Sam trying to upload the song he had found called "Nichole (Instrumental) by Gravehurst" from his iPod to the Mac. Annoyingly at first we were unable to transfer the song from his device to the Mac, trying a number of different methods. Firstly, trying to drag the song onto the desktop directly from iTunes, as this works for all of us at home using our Apple products. We then tried searching for his device in the system with no avail as all of his apps appeared to be blocked by iTunes. Having no luck here Sam decided to find an MP3 converter site and change it from a Youtube video to an MP3 file we could use in the trailer. This saved directly to the desktop and was easy to import into Final Cut Pro X. From last year we remembered adding in a warning at the beginning of the sequence for adult content and making clear it was only to be viewed by people of a certain age. Having watched lots of trailers for films in the British Film Drama we decided it would be good to add a Green band trailer rating right at the start. This made it look more realistic and professional, like something that would be associated with Film 4.

After Sam had finished importing the trailer music, I then took over and tried to import the monologue from our main character, however I ran into the same problems as Sam and have decided to try and email it to myself for our next editing session.