Editing

Any decisions that we made throughout the whole process of editing our entire promotional package was made as a team, voting to see who agreed and allowing any group member to give an opinion or idea without judgement.

When editing our teaser trailer we had several decisons to make, such as in what order to place the shots and what transitions to use, but luckily we had the storyboard to help us out, and we generally followed it. The music was downloaded from a copyright free website, audio.lgfl.org.uk, and edited so that it fitted in well with the trailer, including lowering the volume to make it softer, creating a more emotional feel to the video.

All of the editing of our trailer was done within Pinnacle Studios, which was easy to use, as its controls were simple and user-friendly, as well as allowing uploads straight from the video camera. The issue with Pinnacle was that it was extremely unreliable and often crashed or froze, making time-efficient editting difficult. Our magazine cover and film poster were edited using Adobe Photoshop, however this caused an issue because some members of my group prefered to use a different version of Photoshop to me, which lead to some files being lost or unable to open in other versions.

Overall I feel that my editing skills have improved greatly, particularly in Pinnacle Studios, but not somuch in Photoshop, as I was already comfortable with that software.