To start the editing process off i first imported all of the project media we had planned to use into Sony Vegas via the import media function, I imported the clips we had filmed, the music we had planned on using, potential effects, and of course the logo.
After doing this the first task i set to was to create the opening title sequence, we had decide to include in the opening the text 'from the makers of' and then our tw respective AS Level films 'Fogul, and Zompocalypse'.
I didnt want the text to appear on a black background so i set about finding a suitable background and i found the grunge one we ended up using was from braproductions( this was also suitable as they dont mind people using there images). I then thought i want the text to fly in and out in an intresting manner, so i used a variety of effects such a 'Zoom' 'Curtains' and 'Dissolve'.
The title sequence can be seen on the below 9peice board i created detailing the opening text sequence.
The task i undertook was to sort the clips into a basic order and to edit out all the bad takes, pauses, and director shouting 'cut or 'action', this task was not to difficult, but was very time consuming. Upon completing this task i noticed a major problem, that being we had nearly ten minutes of video, and this was obviously to much for a trailer so i contacted the group via facebook to tell them and to discuss which scenes we could cut.
After making the decision and putting all the clips in order of how we wanted them, we proceeded to go with the method of going through each clip one by one and adding in any effects and music.
We Started of with adding the music track 'Beat it' by Michael Jackson in sync with the opening title credits as it had already been decided this would be the first piece of music we would use with the first few clips.
We then added the Clips of Curtis and Summers chasing and catching a criminal, the logo, and them strutting down the street, with 'Beat it' playing in the background for all these clips.
Next we added in the animation logo 'Watermark Entertainment' straight after the strutting down the street clip, the only problem encountered with the animation was that it was slightly out of position so we used the event/pan crop function to fix this.
We then had written down that now we would put the informant scene in, and because this scene contained dialogue we used an ' audio envelope' to fade out the music.
To switch from the logo into the scene i added in a 3D blinds effect as i felt this would be a good transition to use into the scene.
The informant Scene was one of the main scenes in the trailer as i contained a variety of effects and action.
We had to cut this scene down as it was to long for our trailer so we decided to go with the main points of the scene, the deal, the shooting, and summers shouting 'Stay with me'.
The first part of the scene was Summers walking in towards Toby( The Informant) and then them both engaging in a few lines of dialogue before exchangine a brown envelope.One problem with this scene was that some of 'he Informants' dialogue was a bit slow so we had to speed this scene up ever os slightly. The next scene we put in was where the Informant get shot by Billy Blades, and in this scene there are quite alot of effects.
To start the scene i cut it so that you can just see D.C Summers walking away as the Criminal Billy enter the shot. Also at this point i added in the start of the music from the track 'Union of the snake' by 'Duran Duran', just as the shooting is starting to happen. At the point the gun is fired i added in clips of gun flashes, gun shot noisers, and a blood splatter. With all these clips it was important that i added them in time with the video so that the palyed at exactly the right moment.They also needed to be placed in the right posistions and to do this is used the event/pan/crop function.
After i had finished with thsi section and sorted all the effects out i added in the start of the text sequence that we planned to put in the trailer. The first part was 'Two Cops', the second 'who wont stop', the thrid 'until the bad guys', and the fourth and final 'face justice'. For these text peices i used our entire tasks main font 'Doectuer Atomic' and added multiple effects such as 'zoom's' 'glint's and 'flashes' to create a cool funky retro 80's blue neon look. All the texts quickly zooomed in then stayed on screen momentarily before fading and flashing away.
In between these text slides i placed a few clips, but due to the text they hads to be short clips. These clips were the gun handover scene, kicking down the gate scene, and the Summers screaming 'stay with me' scene.
Next is the drug deal scene, thsi scene was simple to edit as it only took one take. We see the deal happen whilst 'Union of the Snake' is still playing in the background, and just as Summers begins to throw the drugs at the wall and arrest Billy Blade the volume in the music rises considerably. We then hear the music considerably slowing down and the clip fading away into the text 'An A-Level film', for this as the music slowed down to its slowest point i decided to add in a blue lighting effect to give away the sense that it is restarting the music.
Next is the Scene were Summers is chasing Billy Blade down an alleyway. Now for this after it was cut to my liking, i duplicate it and placed both duplicates above the orignal in the editing bars. I purposly put them out of sync witht the orignal clip so that i could use the 'ADD' function to create a ghosting effect when Mr Blades turns around. I had to play around with the timing of these correct by posisting the clips correctly on the timeline.
Her is a picture of the ghosting effect, it show Mr Blades Spinny in to a ghsot of himself, we felt that using an effect such as this was good because it gets the questions going in the audiences heads.
This scene finished off by cross-fading into the next scene which is Curtis and Summers waiting for the criminals, this scene in itself was a very simple scene to edit and was simple to order. The only major change in thsi scene was the 'Union of the Snake' had faded out and been replaced by 'Frankie Knuckles' 'You cant hide'. I had to pick through the music to find the right section to play as the director had told me he wanted the specific part of the song where they are singing 'you cant hide' to be playing.
I used a yellow flash as the transision from this scene into the text 'Coming this fall' which then went directly into the main titles 'Curtis and Summers'.
Now we are into the final scene which was the car explosion. Now for the car explosion i needed two clips of Curtis and Summers walking away from the car so that i could kind of place the explosion effect inbetween them.
This by far took th most time to edit as i had to mask around officer curtis to make the explosion appear behind him.
Masking is a function in Sony Vegas where you can cut round parts of clips or even entire clips, basically it is a tool that allows you to manipulate videos and images.
I added the music 'Rock Hard' by 'The Beastie Boys' into the clip as it fitted in witht the scene really well, i then proceeded to mask around officer Curtis so the explsion would appear behind him.
Here are somepicture to show me masking the clip
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