Post 7) Video Ideas Part 1 - 28/03/2014

For this project I will need to make a trailer to accompany the rest of the work and need to be 1 minute long as that is the criteria that I have been given.
At the moment I have some ideas of what I need to do such as:
I'm going to need to find clips with other dragons in it, as that is the main theme of my idea and to not have a dragon in it would make it a terrible trailer in my opinion.

I'm wanting to edit some clip that I have made/recorded, to keep some consistency with everything in the project as well as to have the main character in the trailer.

I'm going to need some sounds and music to use in the video, to give the trailer the right mood and setting for what I am making.

It will also need images and titles in it, I will most likely use title for the credits at the end of the trailer appearing like other trailers so that it doesn't roll in so that it saves time for the trailer, title might also be used a transition from one scene to the next to add more of an effect and change the impact it has. An idea I have is to use an image to show the title of the movie change the zoom of the image to have an a faster paced feel to create an effect of the title of the movie not being able to stay still.

I would also like it to end with a fade to black, to roll in the details that trailer show at the end such as copyrights, studio logos, ratings and release details.

Part 2 - 13/05/2014

With the trailer not every idea has been able to make it in. This is due to time constrictions or with me forgetting because I was more focused and completing the trailer before a deadline.

The main focus with the trailer is using clip of different dragons and dragon like creatures including the Dragasus doing such actions as flying and breathing fire. In order to obtain these clip I have used a video converter in order to make the videos in a format that I can use with the software I am using to make the trailer. After cutting the video so that I have the clip that I require for the trailer I used a selection of transitions to make one clip flow into the next clip.

I used colour mattes and titles for pauses in the trailer so that the next clip would flow in better as to show what the title just showed or to fit in with the music better. I also used a combination of titles and clips to make the trailer look like a real made trailer with the green screen with information at the start and a black screen with information at the end, unfortunately I was unable to add all the logos at the end screen due to time constraints.

In order to get the Dragasus into the trailer I needed film the pet Bearded Dragon on a green screen that was placed out on the floor and filmed from above, the green screen was then edited out using the Chroma key set of effects so that only that Bearded Dragon remained and to help with that I used a 16 point Garbage layer so that I would be able to precisely map out only the dragon. Image of the wings used where then inserted in a PNG format so that the background of the image would be transparent. Colour changing effects and movement effect where then used on everything so that it would be seen as a blue dragon that was flying in the sky.