Once we had finished the production side of things, we went on to upload the footage on to iMovie to start the editing process. At first, we briefly experimented with cropping the shots and trimming the clips for our chosen scenes. During this process, my group and I kept disagreeing on what shots were useful and what shots were not. We came to an agreement by all choosing our favourite few shots and then using the process of elimination until we were all satisfied with the best shots.
The next step was adding the music. This was, I must say, the most grueling part of the editing process. The end product can turn out to be not quite what you aimed for if you choose the wrong music for the trailer. The two other members of my group found the song that would become our chosen music for the trailer on Youtube and we extracted the mp3 audio and altered it to fit to our trailer.
Finally, the last step on iMovie was adding the text. When adding the text we had to make sure that we had fonts that would work well with the phrases in between the shots. We needed a font that would help link the trailer to the tagline without the viewer knowing the films title yet. We searched on www.dafont.com for a suitable font to use for the trailer. We tried italic, old english, calligraphy, arial and bold fonts but none of them worked well. We settled for a text called 'WC Mano Negra Bta' which was very chilling and fit in really well with the trailer theme.
The last thing to do was to export it on to the desktop as a movie file and upload it to Youtube.
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