LO4: Evidence of editing and audio levels

 

 

 

For the last section of the trailer with the TV static and title sequence we had to drag these onto the track, then by using the razor tool we cut these to the appropriate size, these needed to be changed as by default they are very long. We decided to use sharp cuts in our trailer to build tension so we did not use fading effects of our footage, instead we used the razor tool to cut it where was appropriate and fitted it with the music. We decided to fit our music to the visuals so that as the music was building up so was the visuals which built more tension. I also had to cut the music and apply fade-in-out to the middle part, this was because the music was too long and so lost tension, i applied a fade-in-out with a shot duration so that these two  music clips blended together.

 

The audio for our short film that we recorded whilst filming wasn't very clear in certain scenes due to background noise and the windy weather on the day of filming. With the first crime scene there was an issue where some machinery could be heard, because of this we had to re record the audio in a studio using a hand held microphone which we then synced to the actors lip movement. To do this we had them listen to the way they said the line and asked them to repeat it as close as possible so that it could be synced with the video appropriately. We then inserted and blended the audio with background noise inorder to make it seamless. By doing this now allows us to have crisp and clear audio which can be heard over background noise and can be understood making for a better film altogether. We used some of this audio for our trailer such as the 'officer down' audio used for effect at the end. We also had to change the audio levels in premiere for some of the clips such as the music and audio so that it was balanced, i did this through editing the levels in the audio editing section of premier moving the bar up or down depending on the audio.