Week 12 - finished trailer

The finished version of the trailer is overall to a decent standard, overall i find that it is satisfactory.

The reasons why the video wasn't as good as it should have been;

- Certain transitions could have been explored more, meaning that i used to dip-to-black feature far too much and should have explored other techniques, for a more varied trailer to contrast different skills

- Around the 15th second there is a slight glitch in which it flashed an image, I had found no solution for this because i had tried to remake the clip but had some errors

- Around the 18-19th second the clip itself is too bright and the focus is taken away from the main point, next time i will change this and prevent it from happening

- Around the 47-54th second the clips transitions occur too fast, meaning that the effect of suspense isn't as prominent as if i would have made the transitions slightly further apart and slower, meaning the dip to black should have lasted longer

- Not enough variations in sound, there is only a backing track and one sound effect, although it is sufficient i feel that the trailer is not as good as it should've been mainly for this reason, next time i would add in sound effects of explosions and gun shots

- The ending, the ending is very sudden and i should have had it fade to black, the reason for this is that it transitions out peacefully to correspond with the music


Although the video has its bad points, there are some good points, such as;

- The transitions, although generic are smooth throughout the video and very little errors made

- Around the 20th second the clip effects really bring out the red in the scene and really keep the attention of the viewer

- The suitability of the music to the video, I find that the backing music goes well with the overall video, because of its depressing overtones


What i would do differently next time;

- Put more time into the trailer rather than focusing on the images, this is because i focused more on completing the photoshop and illustrator tasks because they are more challenging, meaning that less time was spent on premiere

- More sound effects, this is because the trailer itself is satisfactory, i think that with more sounds effects that the trailer will be more active and come to life

- More effects, i mainly used the dip-to-black, although it works well, i feel that there is room for improvement in this area, and if there was a next time i would definately pay more attention to effects