Initial Teaser Trailer

The video above is our initial draft of our teaser trailer, edited on Sony Vegas 9.0.

As a whole summary, students in the class were impressed with out production so far, however it does have it's faults:

• The teaser trailer being too long. At 1:55, our aim is to make it below 1:30. This is our target because other teaser trailers we have analysed advertising well known films are commonly 30-90 seconds.
• The resolution of the screen is incorrect, a minor mistake, but makes some images noticeably out of scale.
• During Molly's voice over, there is a slight hiccup in her grammar, that we recently only just noticed. The wording: "several news paper reports suggest these disappearance" is incorrect, and should be plural, to sound like "these disappearance's".

Pilot Study Questionnaire

Rough Cut 2

Rough Cut 1

The video above is the groups construction of a rough cut version of our final piece. From this we hope we gain receive valuable feedback from other class members.

PLEASE NOTE: this is not a final version! Just an experiment of placing clips in an order.

Editing Software

Once we had all the filming completed the next step was to put it together. Our first editing piece was done using Microsoft Movie Maker 2.6. This program enabled us to create two rough cut versions. Both versions were different, as their clips, ordering, sound effects, transitions etcetera were different. From the target audience's feedback we as a group analysed what we needed to do to make this teaser trailer appeal to their interest. Window Movie Maker served it's purpose; to create two rough cuts of different styles. However, we feel didn't show off the group's creativity, and so Giul's promoted the idea of using Sony Vegas 9.

"Manufacturer's Description-

Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition software has everything needed to produce spectacular HD movies. Edit video in nearly any format including HDV and AVCHD. Powerful features for video compositing, color correction, and soundtrack creation help you get feature-film results in your home studio. Use the surround sound mixing tools to create 5.1 soundtracks. Choose from hundreds of professional 2D and 3D video effects, titles, and filters. To share, upload movies to YouTube, burn to Blu-ray Disc, or author DVDs using beautifully designed themes or create custom menus and graphics. Exclusive Sony Show Me How interactive tutorials help you get started fast."

Sony Vegas Pro 9 isn't the most recent version Sony have to offer, but Giuls has access to this Software at his house. With experience making montage clips of PS3 game play, Giuls has good editing skills and a confidence understanding of this program. The total amount of clips we took on the scheduled dates were 144. A large quantity, but we chose the best by eliminating one by one. Importing the movie clips into Sony Vegas we were able to keep the HD quality, however this did slow down computer processing time, which was one downside, but the outcome would be well worth it. As a group we met up at Giuls' house quite frequently to finish it as soon as possible. As you can realise from the picture above Vegas Pro offer more optional feature's, hence why it's available at a price.