Working in Final Cut Express

Over the past week i have created a video in Final Cut Express to promote the media studies course at my college. To do this i had a variety of different clips of the teachers that teach on the course speaking about what they think media means to them. As well as this i had videos of the students saying how they feel media has helped them. I then dropped all the clips in a sequence on the time line and then moved some of the clips above others then muted some of the noises on some of the videos so that i could have commentary over the top of some footage of students working on the mac's.

I then went on to create a music soundtrack in Garage band. to this Garage band has pre recorded sounds of instruments playing some sort of music. Then you choose your music clips and put them together in a time line. I think using a program like Garage band makes the video you are creating very unique due to it will have a personal soundtrack. However i am going to use a song wrote by a band in my trailer as i feel it gives off a bigger emotional response.

This was my 1st cut for the Promo video. i felt like it was missing certain characteristics, like a logo for example. and in general i fell that it just need tiding up so i have created a final product even including my actual logo that i will be using for my film trailer.



This is my final version of my trailer.

i feel doing an activity like this really helps my skills development and will give me the necessary time to get to grips with Final Cut Express before actually editing my own trailer. i enjoyed doing this activity and although i enjoyed using Garage Band i am not going to use this in my Final Trailer.