Editing

Film trailer
We edited our film using Final cut express, in our AS coursework we used this software therefore we were familiar with it. A lot of the other students making film trailers decided to use iMovie, which is an easier software to use however we felt as we had already used Final cut express, we would rise to the challenge and use it to edit our A2 film trailer. We could remember the main functions needed to edit the film but had to use youtube for certain filters and to add text as we had forgot. We found it easy to pick up on techniques in which we had used last year such as adding a cross fade to make the footage fade in and out so it ran smoothly. However, a few problems did arise through the editing of our film such as how to add text into it. We struggled to get the text how we wanted, as we wanted the letters to gradually build up to make the text 'e.g - from the author Rupert Browning', in the end we stuck with a simple fade in and out on top of the footage.

It took us a long time to edit our film, initially our film took priority over the poster and magazine as it required the most work and time. We made a lot of changes after receiving feedback from peers to get our over all film. Initially the 'morning after' scene was too long so we had to cut it by almost half to make it appear as a quicker shot which is what a film trailer is conventionally like.
My favorite function on Final cut express is the duration tool, we used it to speed up certain parts of the trailer and slow down other parts. I think this made the trailer look very effective towards the end when Emily swings her head around on the field. We achieved this shot by carefully filming around Emily from a 180 degree angle, when we stood paralell (in front of her) she flipped her head down giving off a 'mental' look, she then stood up and carried on walking around to complete the 180 degree shot. This is classed as a tracking shot as the camera went around Emily. When we reviewed this footage the camera was wobbly due to not having suitable utensils to film it with, therefore the editing of this footage really saved it. 

We slowed down the first 90 degrees of the full 180, this minimised the shaky camera and made it look very professional. We slowed it down by about 75%.

 We sped up the part where I was standing parallel to Emily, after half of the 180 degree angle. This made her look confused and insane, which we thought linked to the narrative well as she is torn what to do about her pregnancy. 

The film magazine
After finishing our movie trailer; which we spent the majority of our time on, we had a few dilemmas with the magazine and the movie poster. We created and edited the magazine using power point, as we thought this would be the easiest when it came to adding texts and shapes on to it. 

The film magazine wasn't too hard to do, we used an image of Emily sitting on the steps outside Rochester cathedral, she is putting a blank expression which we thought looked effective, especially as she is looking direct at the camera. It most magazine front covers is it one character looking at the camera with a blank expression, rarely it is numerous characters like in avengers.
From using a sample film magazine cover we replicated the type of things on it such as texts and promotions with our own twist on it. One thing we noticed is that magazine covers have a lot of text on them, they are almost fully covered it text, therefore we crammed as must as we could onto ours. We also used different fonts for the text as its not conventional to use the same text throughout. We also used the magazine company 'Total Film' as this is a well known magazine brand specifically for film promotion. 
We also used shapes to create things that stand out on the magazine. We created a circle and set the colour as yellow to make it stand out and wrote 'The 10 biggest blockbusters you need to see', this made the film magazine look more professional as all magazines have things that stand out in shapes and are bold. 

Film poster

When it came to editing our film poster we had several attempts at editing it. Photoshop was crucial for our magazine poster to make it look really effective and professional however none of our group knew how to use it. I attempted to use Photoshop but found it difficult as I had never used it before therefore I used Publisher, Powerpoint and Paint to create it. Firstly we took an image from our footage at Capstone, where Frankie is reassuring Emily on the bridge that she will be there for her throughout the pregnancy.
We then got separate head shot images of the two characters and put a transparent fade onto them, which made them appear slightly see through. We then placed them at the bottom of the poster infront of the Captstone image, this create almost a montage of images which I think looks effective. We then added the title of the film with 'touchstone presents' on it and added a billing block.
From previously researching, I noticed that the majority of all published film posters have the same font for their billing blocks. I further researched into this to see if I could access this font, as this would make our poster look extra professional. The front was called Univers 39 Thin Ultra Condensed, however you had to purchase it which was around £30, so unfortunately we had to find a font that was similar. We also added a sort of catch phrase saying 'with only one to depend on', as a lot of film posters contain one.