2. Equipment and Software used
• Camera (canon EOS 1100D) (canon EOS 550D)
• Green screen
• Microphones
• Photoshop
• Premier pro
• Audacity
3. Camera
The cameras I used to film my trailer
are;
- Canon EOS 1100D
- Canon EOS 550D
Both of these cameras have the
qualities needed to make an effective
trailer. However, voted the best
Canon camera out of the two is the
Canon EOS 550D and this is possibly
because of the megapixels but also
the variety of resolutions for the
videography features which is the
main area to look at when your using
the camera for filming. Because of this
I used this camera to film and the
Canon EOS 1100D to take images
with.
4. Green Screen
I used the greenscreen so I could
take pictures of my characters
and add a background of choice.
What Is a Green Screen and
How Does it Work?
A green screen is exactly what it
sounds like- a green screen
placed behind the subject being
filmed. The blank green screen
allows designers to superimpose
digital images into the
background of your video to
create unique environments. It's
not new technology, but it's the
most effective way of
integrating high quality images
into the background.
5. Microphone
This is the microphone I used in my trailer so that as
well as recording the images, I can have high quality
sound also to go with it. This is the smaller version
of what the film industry uses.
I used the microphone so that the sounds were just
as good as the video footage on the Canon 550D
and the 1100D. The microphone also helped to
emphasise some sounds, e.g. when the door slams
and creaks open.
However, in my trailer I used some sound off the
internet as the microphone didn't catch every
sound to how I wanted it, e.g. the paino keys
playing.
6. Photoshop
I used Adobe Photoshop CS4, so that I could edit my
photographs and text to make them look more effective so
that it supports the horror genre.
Photoshop has many features that helped me produce
some really good pieces of work and the before and after
images, you can really see how much of a difference
photoshop can make to the images.
On Photoshop I was also able to make my title for my
poster by using some of its features.
7. Premier Pro
I used Adobe Premier Pro CS4 to ctually produce my trailer drafts
and my final trailer. I also used Premier Pro to produce the title of
my film as this software has effects and fonts that I can use.
I found Premier Pro was rather easy to use, however I did struggle
with using the effects as there are so many to choose from and
also before you chose one you can't see what it does beforehand,
therefore you have to guess from the name of the effect to what it
does.
What I did like about Premier Pro is that it's fast on downloading
the video clips and you can also make new sequences so that I
could do each scene separately.
8. Audacity
I used this software to do my voiceovers on m construction,
as well as using the microphone and Audacity to add sound
effects to my trailer.
Audacity allows you to coopy and paste as well as record,
which means that this software helped me to add effects to
my trailer as well as showing you what I have done through
speaking instead of writing.
However, I reached some obstacles such as; static
interference and when I saved the audio file it didn't always
save as a whole but in pieces.
