TV trailer

To film my TV trailer, i firstly set up the camera depending on the location of filming. I used an automatic white balance for all of my shots, however I changed the iso and used automatic and manual focus depending on the lighting of the location or the type of shot I wanted. For example, darker locations needed a higher iso to add artificial brightness to the shot. There was one particular shot in my TV trailer where I wanted the subject to be out of focus in the background of the shot meaning I had to use manual focus to focus instead on the foreground. For my filming, I switched between the use of a tripod and handheld recording depending on the shot type. My trailer has multiple dolly shots where hand held camera work was needed whereas I needed steady shots for close ups and wide shots meaning the use of a tripod was needed. For the editing of my trailer, I imported all of the recorded footage from filming into a unit 20 rushes folder to organise the raw and sourced footage I used. When creating a new project in Final Cut pro, I used settings of 1080p, 16:9 aspect ratio, 48 kHz audio as well as 25 frames per second in my project to ensure broadcast quality to keep industry standards. I uploaded all the useable footage from my filming days from my rushes folder into final cut as well as the voice recordings and music onto a new timeline. I edited my footage to create an easily watchable trailer that abided to industry standards. The editing of the audio in the trailer such as balancing the volume of clips to the background music and voice overs was essential in making all the necessary information given in voice overs and character dialogue easily heard by the watcher. As well as this, I made sure the audio did not exceed -6 db to avoid any clipping or distortion in the trailers audio. I edited the on screen visuals in order to standardise the footage from different shoot days to create an easily watchable trailer. The colour correction I did in my trailer involved changing the exposure and saturation of my footage as well as adding a "vintage" filter to all the shots. The footage from the 1st filming day needed a change in exposure since it was a brighter day when filming meaning the exposure needed reducing to match the footage from the 2nd filming which was darker. I made choices such as cutting on beat and fade to black in my trailer since this aligned well with my choice of music. I used cuts on beat to emphasise certain shots by using an interesting change that occurred in the music alongside a change to an interesting or important shot in my trailer. Similarly, I used fade to blacks in the beginning of my trailer alongside the long periods of silence that the song I used has in order to create a tense effect at the beginning of my trailer as well as allowing for voice overs to be played where they could be easily heard. I overcame ethical issues when creating my trailer by providing consent forms for the actors as well as making sure that any people in the background when filming were ok being on camera. As well as this, I used a diverse cast to avoid any negative stereotypes that people may be offended by. I overcame legal issues by ensuring that the locations I filmed on were either public property or private property where I had permission to film. Some of the locations I filmed on had specific safety risks meaning I created a risk assessment form to ensure the safety of my staff by providing safety precautions for any hazards on set. The pre sourced footage I found online was from Pixabay.com ,  a royalty and copyright free website meaning there was no issues in using the footage. When exporting my final trailer, I created 2 master files for different purposes. I created a high quality AppleProRes export of higher quality to show the client as well as a lower quality and smaller file size H262 export for social media posting.