Quickly Designing The Trailer And Editing It Together.

Having saved my Sequence it made it a lot easier to edit the trailer together, I simply created a new sequence within in the same Premier Pro file and then I could grab the original sequence and cut the bits I wanted out of it. However this is when I reliased I hadn't actually done any planning of how the trailer it's self was going to go. Unfortunately I didn't have much time as such to do this so I quickly did it below.

Below is a copy of what I had written as a quick trailer design, Knowing of course what I had from the sequence I had already made.

"Trailer begins with Amy saying she found a cool place to Ric and Tobias. The Trailer Shows A Background with some text saying “There’s One Place”. Then It shows Caleb claiming he heard something and goes away to look for it. The Trailer then shows the text with the background saying “We All Regret Going”.

The Trailer then shows Tobias looking around upstairs. Looking lost and confused finding nothing. The Trailer then shows some text saying “They Don’t Know What They’ve walked into” Show the clip where Tobias is in a room and sees something with a red robe around them.

The text background appears again and shows “When One Dies, All Of The Die.” The Trailer then shows Amy being dragged away by something and the Caleb stabbing her which admittedly is a different shot but I think it will work.

The Trailer then shows off each character and them speaking in the film. (Or our already filmed sequence from the film.) For example it will show me acting out in the trailer pausing and shows some text saying “Kyle Wilkinson as Ric”.

After it's gone through all the main characters in the trailer. The trailer then cuts to the clip of Caleb sleeping and here's a banging and opening his eyes. This makes the trailer come to an end with what will be an image I’ll make on Photoshop. Saying Coming this fall and Kyle Wilkinson studios or something similar on it."

I also made a quick storyboard graph on an A4 sheet of paper which I have scanned in below:


After The Design was complete for how my trailer was going to go, I used the sequence which I had made as well as my trailer planning to create the trailer using Adobe PP.

The start of my trailer was very simple to complete, and then I started the bit where I needed to making a backing image for some text to appear on the screen of the trailer. For this I decided to grab a photo of some trees I took in a forest in Photoshop and then see what I could do with it. Unbelievably the original image is the one below;

I then added Threshold adjustment too the image this added a black and white and very strong hardness to the image and then I added a Gaussian Blur adjustment to the image also but set the radius to 1. I liked the image I got but then I came up with a better Idea. What if I made an animation with a transition effect on the text. 

To do this I saved the picture with the Gaussian blur adjustment set too 1, then once the image was saved I changed the Gaussian blur radius too 2 and then saved this image. Now all together to do this I ended up with 96 Versions of the image to create the animation. Each of the images was going to be one frame in the video and together all the frame created about a 4.5 Seconds animation. 

Having created that small animation I needed the text, to do this I downloaded a font off the internet called "Feast Of Flesh" bit of scary name but it had the horror effect which I was looking for. On the title properties section for the text, I customized the  Fill to a 4 color gradient added the outer stroke to Linear gradient with depth, as well as switching the shadow on for the text. 

To create the animated text effect I used a cross Dissolve Transition effect at the beginning and ending of the text. I then added a Cinemon Converter effect and altered the 10 bit white point number for the beginning and ending of the text when it appeared on the sequence. I also had clicked the Animation button to add the effect. In my opinion this system of using the Effect Controls to animate things within PP, is very similar to how it works in Adobe After Effects. 

After creating the animation for when the texts appeared on the screen for the trailer, I then followed my trailer design plan adding all the correct clips and text from my sequence that I wanted. The bit that took me the longest following this was creating the section of the trailer where the actors names appeared with there character names. 

This is because for each of the main characters I had a clip that they acted out and then a screenshot of the last frame, Using this last frame I added a Gaussian blur and then a pen tool around the person so that it would blur everything out apart from that one person in the spotlight. It was a function similar  to the tool I used when I lightened up Oscar in a the sequence creation. 

In my opinon after this was all done the trailer was complete!I had checked the sound levels and the the clips in the trailer and in my opinion it didn't look too bad.  I then rendered the file in and out on premier pro and then saved the trailer as an MP4 in 1080p Definition.