Editing

In the last week of our media lessons we have been focusing on finishing of the editing of our teaser trailer. We have filmed all the different elements that will make up our trailer, and are now developing our editing skills. Our trailer begins with the two main characters as adults meeting for the first time after years of being apart. This we have already edited in. This then continues onto a serious of clips from the past which shows how completly different they once were. We wanted to show him being the clumsy geeky guy, while she was popular with loads of friends and due to peer pressure from her friends feels as if she cant like the boy. We used a clip of him falling over and dropping his books in front of her and her friends, with them making fun of him. We then used a fade from this scene, which made the transaction into clips quick and smooth. We wanted to show the boy as the clumsy one, so we had two main clips of him doing so, these included him knocking over a drink and getting his bag caught on a door. These were very short clips as we thought if they were too long it wouldn't fit typical conventions of a teaser trailer. We also thought that it would keep the pace and excitment of the trailer going. The next clip was of them walking to each other to go through a door, but with her on her phone, and him looking at her as if he really likes her and by doing this makes him walk into the door. We wanted to use these specific short clips, as we wanted to show him as being the clumsy geeky boy and her as not interested in him due to how he is and that she is popular therefore she can't be seen with someone like that. At first we filmed these bits with just alex being clumsy, but after showing our target audience they suggested we needed to show him being clumsy, but include Mercedes in the scenes more which will show this is the reason she doesn't like him in return. We decided to use fades in between the scenes as this made them flow smoothly throughout, and still kept the pace quite fast and fitted in with a rom-com teaser trailer. We have also added in a soundtrack, which is upbeat and suits our genre as rom-com. This song was from a local band called 'Hands shaped like Hearts'. After trying to contactTaylor Swifts record company and not recieving any reply to get permission to use on of her songs, we decided to get in contact with a local band and ask permission to use one of their own songs. They emailed us back and said that they would be happy for us to use their song!!