Editing for scene 1

On the 1st of november we decided to film our first scene, in order to be able to do so successfully we needed a high quality nikon camera, a tripod, props, actor and an urban location. It took us around 20 minutes to gather it all and start filming. however, it would have taken much longer if we hadn't already planned days ahead where we were going set our location and assigned our actor. we knew which props to supply for the scene and knew where to get out tripod and Nikon camera. This highlight how much preparation and planning is key for our project.
We found that our first scene was too long as it rounded to 20 seconds. The reason why it was essential to cut it down is that the first scene consisted of the actor typing on her laptop and had only 1 line to say near the end. This sort of scene should only last a few seconds as nothing interesting is happening and it may bore the audience which result to them deciding to watch another trailer such as silent hill which creates suspense from the first scene.And so we will have failed our objective of attracting the audience from the trailer to watch the movies in the cinemas. Once we had started to immensely cut parts of the first scene in 'Final cut pro' it rounded up around 6 seconds.
We realised that the actors voice was low and there was background noise too, to fix this we went on a different software called GarageBand. Here we could edit how her voice's pitch and volume; we could also remove and reduce the background noise to make it sound clearer.  After we refined her voice on GarageBand we edited into Final cut Pro; so we now had better quality sound. Never the less, it was the only sound in the scene, there was no atmospheric music in the background to create suspense which is a convention of horror/thriller trailers. To find the perfect soundtrack we had to research what sort of soundtracks other horror/thriller trailers had used and which would be perfect for ours. We found out that the soundtrack's pace must align with the pace of the scene, so we needed a slow paced soundtrack for the beginning. This also brought up the fact that the pace of the trailer will change later on and so we need different soundtracks but we must edit it so it flows smoothly from one soundtrack to another without the audience thinking theres just a playlist being played in the background.
-Frouzon