On the 28th of January we completed our third editing session in which we aimed to get the voice over on the trailer that we were unable to in the previous session due to technical difficulties and then myself and Chris would finish editing the text and make further sound adjustments with the addition of sound FX and further editing the music.
Chris started by attempting to access the voice over files of Tom's voice through his email address however when he attempted to log on to hotmail we found that the site was blocked and so we had now way of accessing the voice files. He tried refreshing the page and trying to log on to hotmail from a different source but he was unable to do so. Luckily he still had the voice files on his phone so I suggested he take my memory stick and put it onto to it so we could try and import the voice files from it as a final effort.
Whilst Chris went off to do this I started to edit the text on the trailer to make it fit in more with the text on our ancillary tasks. I was unable to successfully transfer the unique font I was using to the trailer due to it being classed as an image on Final Cut Pro X, which when enlarged made the image go all blurry and hard to read. I therefore looked for similar fonts within the Final Cut Pro X programme and came across a 2D font style called grunge which created a block and worn effect and then I crossed this font with the Gaz font which created an even more worn and battered look to the font then enlarged it and repeated across all the text in the trailer. I have an example of the text in a video.
Whilst I was doing this I also tried adding a Film 4 productions logo to the trailer as they are our production company however it had the same problem of the custom font of being an image and so when it was enlarged on Final Cut Pro X it became blurry and ugly so I deleted it. Chris came back with the voice recording as I was doing this and suggested finding a moving gif of the Film 4 logo and he began looking for one but couldn't find any. I suggested we put a video of the Film 4 introduction in our trailer to make it look more authentic but we couldn't access youtube or any videos because the site was down so I plan to do this in my own time.
With the text finished Chris went about importing his sound files onto the trailer through my memory stick and we experimented with where to place it. We agreed on close to the beginning and it would finsh as Shaun is walking away from the grave for dramatic effect. Next I added a flash to the cut to black as Shaun is confronted by the dealer but Chris felt the black wasn't needed with the flash as it made the transition too long. Chris then removed the cut and as you can see from this video off the voice over, text and flash transition, that the effect is much better.
With the voice over completed I then edited the song further so that it fades away as the action ramps up and we plan to put faster paced music in here to ramp up te tension but as it gets to later on in the trailer when the action dies down, I have bladed and cut the final part of the song over it to fade back in then as the sequence ends fade to black.
We then tried to find good royalty free sound FX to use but many of the sights were blocked and when we tried accessing PurplePlanet, the sight we used last year for most of our sound, we were unable to access anything due to a poor connection. Seeing as adding sound FX and a faster passed song is the final thing that needs completing as well as the addition of the FIlm 4 logo, Chris and I decided to get these from home where we can access more content online and so we finished editing for the day.
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