I began the session by trying to access the voice over files of Tom through my email address as I discovered that this was the only way we could access the audio on the Mac. however when I came to try an log into my email account it was being blocked by the protective software on the Mac, as the site was down. I decided that I would go and try logging onto my account using a normal computer in the neighbouring building ,to which Sam provided me with his memory stick to put the sound files on.
In the time I went of to transfer the sound file of Tom talking, Sam started to edit the text on the trailer to make ita font that was a similar style to all of our posters and magazine covers, this was after the original font we had decided on using could not be imported to Final Cut Pro X as a font itself, and because the file it was recognised as was and image it went blury upon enlargement. In light of this Sam decided to try and find an existing font in Final Cut Pro X that best fit the conventions of a British Film Drama, being bold. After a while of looking he discovered a style of font called Grunge ,which created a weathered and torn appearance. He then decided that it didn't fit with the theme of our film narrative enough so looked for another font to combine it with. Successfully, he managed to find a good combination between the Grunge font and one called the Gaz font, making the text look even more damaged and broken, like the main character in our film.
As well as sorting the font style out Sam found a Film 4 Productions logo that he was going to add to the beginning of our trailer in order to show that we are in association with them and they are helping to produce our trailer. The problem with it being an image was that he came across the same problem that he had with the font, with it becoming blurred and low quality upon enlargement. I return whilst Sam was doing this, with two of the voice recording Tom did, and suggested that instead of adding an image we should use an animated GIF of the Film 4 Productions logo and I tried looking for one but was unsuccessful. Sam then thought about using a short video clip of the Film 4 Productions logo but unfortunately the site was down so we were unable to look for one there and then, and Sam planned to find one in his own time.
Once we had finished adding the text, and deciding what the best way to word lines was, I went about importing the sound files of Tom reading Shaun's lines into Final Cut Pro X from Sam's memory stick, and then we experimented with the volume and placement of it in the trailer. After a while of placing the voice over in different places we decided that it needed to be close to the beginning before the faster paced action shots started, and it needed to end as Shaun was walking away from his mothers grave to get a more emotional response and moving monologue. Next Sam thought of adding a flash to the cut to black before Shaun is confronted by the drug dealer. I thought the flash was a good idea and looked good, however this made the cut to black unneeded and just slowed down the pace of the trailer for no reason abruptly.
Once I had finally finished placing and editing the voice over, Sam began editing our main trailer song, by Gravehurst, Fading it out as the action in our trailer begins to increase, and ends where we plan to add more
fast paced music to layer on top of the action sequence. He has added the end to the into music at the end of the trailer and faded it in slowly and left a gap for the faster paced music to go in. After this we attempted to find some royalty free sound FX and music to use but unfortunately the majority of the sites were blocked and the ones that weren't had no music or sound FX on suitable for our trailer. Since, adding faster paced music and the Film 4 logo were the last thing we needed to do, Sam and I decided that we would get these in our own time.
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