Post-Production: Editing - Transitions & Effects

During creating my project in Premiere Pro, I have used quite a few transitions and effects to connect pieces of footage together that I filmed and tried to make it more seamless in order to fit with the conventions of a film trailer. 

Through using this effect, I managed to slow down the speed of 3 clips. One of those clips was overlaid on top of the first one in order to give a blurry or confused perspective of the character. This allows me to show that the main character had to come from adversity to be a successful footballer. 

While filming the motivational talk, I was in the reflection of the door in the background. After seeing this in post-production, I decided that something had to be done to hide or get rid of the reflection in the background because it would look really unprofessional if I was in one of the clips in my final trailer. Eventually, I chose that the Gaussian Blur would be the best effect to use to blur the reflection in this part of my trailer. Firstly, I made a circular mask to highlight the area that I wanted to blur. Then I increased the blur level to around 200 as I didn't want the outline of the mask to be completely visible but I still wanted the background reflection to be quite blurred in order to make it seem like the glass in the window of the door was clear.

At the start of the trailer, I decided to add a clip of the main character kicking a football against the net of the goal. I feel that this is a really powerful shot because the football is going straight towards the camera and this makes it very clear that my film trailer will be about football. It will also make the audience feel like they are behind the goal watching this happen and this will mean it will be easier for my target audience to connect with the narrative of my trailer because it seems more personal. I chose to put a black and white filter on this camera shot because the first shot is supposed to be a flash-forward in time to when the main character is better at football in comparison to the other shots in the trailer where his shooting ability is quite poor. The B/W filter also makes the focus be purely onto the net of the goal and the ball being kicked into it, therefore, this makes it clear that the narrative of the film trailer involves football.