Firstly we had to upload all the footage on Magix. To do this I clicked on, ‘Import-user name-my documents-media A2-filming,’ once I had found all of our footage, I highlighted them and finally dragged them down into the timeline view. The first thing we had to do was sort through all of our footage, deleting everything we didn’t want. To separate a piece of footage into two parts, the piece we wanted and the piece we wanted to delete, we simply dragged the orange bar to the place we wanted to separate the shot, and clicked on the ‘cut’ icon. This separated our shot into two, enabling us to delete the section we did not want. Once we were only left with the footage we wanted we sorted them into the order they appeared in our film trailer.
On some of our footage we wanted to add an internal monologue over the top. To do this we first had to delete the sound combined to these shots, by first selecting the shot, and then clicking on the ‘ungroup’ icon. This separated the shot from the sound, in which we could then delete. Once we were left with the shots we wanted with no sound, we then pasted our internal monologue into place. Some of shots however where to long, and didn’t fit the length of our internal monologue. To overcome this problem we simply clicked on the end of the shot, on the right hand side, and dragged it towards the left until we had minimised the shot to the length we needed, seen below:
We followed the same format as above to add any voice overs to our film trailer.
To add sound effects we clicked on ‘import’ and found them in the same way as we found our footage earlier, again dragging them down into the timeline view. We then followed the same format as our footage and deleted any part of that sound effect that we didn’t want to use. After we had only the sound left that we wanted from our sound effect we were able to fade it in to our film trailer by dragging the line down, seen below:
We needed to add some special effects to one of our shots. Our aim was to slow down one of shots, making it more dramatic and emphasising the idea that our main character had taken the whole tub of sleeping pills. To do this we firstly highlighted the shot we wanted to slow down, clicked on ‘effects’ and then ‘speed.’ This brought up a tool box which allowed us to make our shot faster or slower, seen below:
We then wanted to create a sequence of still shots, which faded into one another to convey that time is passing in our film trailer to our audience. Firstly to make our footage a still image we right clicked on our individual shots and selected ‘create still.’ Once we had created all of our still shots we placed them slightly over the top of each other so that they would overlap. And finally to make the shots fade into one another dragged the line down, or towards the centre of each still shot, similar to how we made the sound effect fade into our film trailer, seen below:
Now it was time to add titles to our film trailer. Firstly we selected ‘titles,’ chose which type of title we wanted to add from the choice we were given and then, like our footage, drag it down into the timeline view. After we had chosen the type of title that we wanted, we added our text and then selected ‘general,’ this enabled us to change our titles font, colour, position, size, ectr. Seen below:
To save time, we simply copied and pasted already existing titles into other areas of our film trailer, clicking on ‘general’ from the options in ‘title’ each time to make the needed changes for each of our titles, seen below:
Once we had added all of the titles to our film trailer all that was left to add were our soundtracks. To add the soundtracks to our film trailer we followed the same format we used when adding our sound effects to our film trailer.
