Editing

For our trailer, our whole group worked together when coming up with ideas and editing.
We edited our trailer using Final Cut Pro because this is what the college was able to provide us with and we were all familiar with it due to our AS work last year. It is also a useful program because it allowed us to use all the functions needed to create the trailer we wanted such as creating a split screen frame.
Firstly, we transferred all of our camera footage from our tape to the Apple Mac computers at college then imported this camera footage into Final Cut Pro. We then used the easy set up and use either the DV-NTSC Anamorphic format or the HDV-1080I50 format. We then set up a new sequence and saved our project ready for our editing.
In the editing process we all had a individual roles in the group to capitalise on the opportunities we were given with this project. Wesley would construct the brief frame of the trailer according to mine, Joseph's, Mollie's and Jordan's creative ideas and visions. Jordan and Joe would then go onto editing it further in terms of transitions and more precise shot orders and structures. The work would then be fed back to Mollie and I to further adjust until to our preference. This process was repeated until finally getting a product that we were all satisfied with. An issue occured right at the end of the process where the groups majority verdict decided to cut a few scenes from the end of the trailer, correspondent to our audience feedback whereas Wesley reintroduced the scenes at the last minute and consolidated the files without our consent, which in fairness was part of the original plan to include these shots.
So overall, my role in the editing was to give my feedback, ideas and criticisms to create a result that the whole group was satisfied with. My other more practical role was creating text using Motion 5 to put in our trailer and deciding what text would be appropriate to put in our trailer. At first we considered putting reviews from newspapers and magazines in order to entice the audience but we decided to include our text in our Beatles theme by using suitable Beatles lyrics.