Editing - Film Trailer

We edited our film clips to create and put together our trailer on Adobe Premier Pro CS3. When we imported our clips from our camcorder, we had taken many so that we had a lot to choose from. We sifted through them and chose the ones we thought would work best in our trailer. Although we have used the older version of premier pro, we wanted to familiarise ourselves with the new version, therefore the clips that we didn't use, we imported onto adobe premier pro CS3 and did some editing on them so that we could use some of the features and it would not matter if we made a mistake. 

Transitions: one transition we used was dip to white, this meant that one shot faded into another shot in white. We did this during the hospital scene when Helena had just had her baby. We did this to represent the purity and innocent nature of the situation. However in contrast, as the trailer continues, the themes and atmosphere become a lot darker, therefore dipped to black we used to convey this

We couldn't actually add text on the program, we therefore did it on windows movie maker, but when imported, the writing went blurred we therefore tried to change this with deepen, contrast, trying to make it brighter. We used dip to black these two shots, fading from the text ‘from the makers of…’ to ‘distorted’ this emphasises and draws out this feature. 

With the main title, we knew we had to make it stand out above everything else to make it memorable. We did this by using white writing on black background, we found a feature on the program to add a star flashing in the middle of the D.I.D and YOU. Along with the red smoke it emphasises this title. 

This shot is of the shadow of a hand grasping the baby, we had to therefore adjust the lighting to ensure that the shadow of the hand could be seen clearly. This is where we used ‘Brightness & Contrast’ tab and changed the levels. This was the outcome, we can clearly see the hand shadow as well as can be expected. 

Here we used cross dissolve, to illustrate the use of match on action and her actions of walking into and coming into her home.

We also used dipped to black so that our logo of 'S.E.R Productions' would appear slowly from dark to light to emphasise this.


We had trouble with the writing as it went blurred. This is when we tried to use different levels of brightness.

Also, we created this production company to increase how realistic this is, 'S.E.R' stands for Sarah.Emma.Rebecca. and we feel that its a catchy and memorable title for a company.