So we decided as a group to go the way we’ve alway gone when dividing up tasks and that was for every body to take responsibility for their own genre. As has been noted several times before, I don’t have a genre that I’m looking after so it made sense that I was to cut together a trailer to show off the series as a whole. Originally I thought it would be better to wait for everyone else to finish their editing, that way I could use their already edited footage, keeping the correct colour and the correct mood for the genre. Very quickly I realised that this would leave me at a big disadvantage as I was totally dependant on everyone else finishing theirs and giving me enough time. So I decided to create a trailer from scratch.

We had gotten a class on how to set out your editing and workspace so I tried to keep to that as much as possible. It seemed like a lot of ground work for some peace of mind but I can understand the reasoning behind it. We were to create new sequence every time we wanted to do something different, that way we would have a record of where we came from. I have to admit it is hard to keep it in your mind, its a bit like clicking the save button, you never can remember it until its too late.

My first step isn’t very exciting so it’s not worth much of a post but here it is anyway. I set up a sequence entitled trailer footage which was all the unedited shots I though were good enough to make it into the trailer. I ended up with about 20 minutes of footage which was a lot better than the hour and a half that we had. I chose these shots because they looked good, not because they were important to the story. There is, however, one piece of dialogue I will keep which was filmed on the second day which is the character Jack explaining to camera why they are here, basically telling the plot points of the series. My plan, as it stands at the moment is use that dialogue under the other images to create an exciting and insightful trailer.

You can see my first attempts at editing a trailer below: