Genre, Sub Genre and Audience

Genre, Sub Genre and Audience

We were given a worksheet by Dan with a list of different movies with lots of different genres. These genres consisted of comedy, thriller, crime, action, drama, romance and many more. After being briefed we set of in our groups and all chose two different movies from the list given. I chose the movies Friends with Benefits and and Dream House. for these two movies i will critically analyse the target audience, genre and sub genres.

genre refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed.Subcategories Film genres often branch out into subgenres and include elements of other genres.Target audience is who the film is made for.

(1) Friends with benefits trailer (2011) 
           

(1) You get the sense that the genre of Friends with benefits is a Romantic Comedy starring the likes of Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake targeted at young adults. Although being a PG 13 in america there is elements of sex. The Target Audience seems to be single students who all are open to the promiscuity of sex. The key signifiers of this is the characters used. Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake are both seen as good looking characters and the use of colours sets a nice and friendly mood as opposed to a thriller which would have very dark colours to set the tone

(2) Dream House (2011)

(2) You get the sense that the genre of Dream House is a drama and mystery. The film is targeted at adults who like to be kept guessing and interested in the characters and personalities. The Target Audience seems to be targeted at adults who like stories with a twist. The element of mystery keeps the reader guessing. Key signifiers that insinuate this are the dark colours, and the characters looks on their faces on the poster and trailer. 

Genre, Sub Genre + Audience

The blog I am writing now, is a blog talking about two films and their genres. At the start of the lesson, we had a brief discussion about what types of genres were around in cinema today. Some of these genres were: action, romance, comedy, horror and thrillers. The two films I am going to analyse are 'Harry Potter' and 'The Others'. 

HARRY POTTER:

Firstly, Harry Potter's main genre would be classified as fantasy, along with a lot of sub genre's, such as: action, and young kids fantasy. Harry Potter has a very specific target audience, and that is the child and teenage years. However, it has attracted a large audience, with many adults going to see the brilliant film themselves. The key signifiers of this are seen in the photo above. The wand is a fantasy idea, which many kids will see as a great form of entertainment, and as Harry is very clearly holding a wand, the picture signifies it's specific target audience. 

THE OTHERS:




Next, we can clearly see that The Others main genre is horror. A specific sub genre for this film could be action, as it involves lots of action leading up to all horror scenes. As well as that, the target audience for this film would be teenagers and adults. This is mainly because, the age rating for this film is a '12', which indicates some scary films, that young kids may find extremely scary. Finally, the key signifiers of the picture above are very clear. The picture is very dark, which can represent pain or death, and the woman looks extremely scared, which indicates that she doesn't feel safe. 


Overall, we can see that both films are aimed at different target groups, and the two pictures represent this. It gives me a great idea for our own thriller, and lets me know that first impressions will be extremely important in our chances of success. 

Genre, Sub Genre and Audeince

Genre, Sub Genre and Audience

The blog I am going to do now is about genre, sub genre and audience. Dan has given us a list of different films that we should give out in our groups. The different genres consisted of drama, thriller, horror, comedy , crime and many others. We would need to choose two films to do ourselves and write about the genre etc. I have decided to do the moves; Tower Heist and Friends With Benefits. For both of these films i am going to be analyzing the genre & subgenre, target audience and what the key signifiers were.

Tower Heist

Genre and Subgenre


- Comedy, Genre
- Robbery Movie


Target Audience


- Teens and Young Adults


What Were The Key Signifiers?


- The key signifiers that show it is a comedy as it has famous comedy actors in it. Eddie Murphy is one of the main characters in the movie. Also from the poster you could see the other main actor in it is Ben Stiller. These two actors are mainly known for their many comedy films done. Another thing appealing and relates to the genre is that they are all wearing black, this is almost like an outfit as the sub genre is a robbery movie. Also the characters are on top of a building in the poster, this relates to the title name as it is called 'Tower' Heist.

Friends With Benefits

Genre and Subgenre

- Comedy , Romance

- Drama

Target Audience

- Young Adults

What Were The Key Signifiers?

- As from the poster you could see that the main male actor is Justin Timberlake. This will show the audience that it is not an ordinary movie as it has him as an actor. This is because Justin Timberlake is remotely known for his songs and not for acting. Also from the title of the film 'Friends With Benefits', you can see it is based around the two characters shown on the poster. It will be based on the relationship of the two characters. Also the way Justin Timberlake is portrayed in the poster as his hand on his head and a little smirk. This can show that he is confused about how he maybe feels about Mila Kunis in the film.  

Genre, sub genre and audience

A genre is a generally a category of an artistic composition. An example of a genre would be thriller in film or pop in music. A sub-genre is a sub-category within a genre like a psychological thriller.

The Others

Genre: Horror
Sub Genre: Psychological Horror
Target Audience: Teenagers and young adults
Key Signifiers: The imagery of the poster and title font show that it is a horror as it shows the protagonist surrounded my darkness with a lamp highlighting her facial expression. She seems to be gasping or in extreme shock of something. The ghostly effect on the title font emphasises the fact that this horror could potentially be about ghosts.

In Time

Genre: Thriller

Sub Genre: Action, Sci-fi Thriller

Target Audience: Male teenagers and young adults

Key Signifiers: The imagery of the poster. For example the gun in the image signifies there is going to be some violence, making it a thriller. The digits on Justin Timberlake's wrist demonstrates science-fiction and the intense look on both actor and actress's faces shows there is bound to be some sort of action in the film. The background of the image is gloomy and dark signifying some sort of doom. The fact that a male and female are on the cover could highlight the fact that there may be a romantic element.

Genre, Sub genre and audience

The Others

Genre: Horror
Sub Genre: Psychological Horror
Target Audience: Teenagers and young adults
Key Signifiers: The imagery of the poster and title font show that it is a horror as it shows the protagonist surrounded my darkness with a lamp highlighting her facial expression. She seems to be gasping or in extreme shock of something. The ghostly effect on the title font emphasises the fact that this horror could potentially be about ghosts.

In Time

Genre: Thriller

Sub Genre: Action, Sci-fi Thriller

Target Audience: Male teenagers and young adults

Key Signifiers: The imagery of the poster. For example the gun in the image signifies there is going to be some violence, making it a thriller. The digits on Justin Timberlake's wrist demonstrates science-fiction and the intense look on both actor and actress's faces shows there is bound to be some sort of action in the film. The background of the image is gloomy and dark signifying some sort of doom. The fact that a male and female are on the cover could highlight the fact that there may be a romantic element.

Review of previous student's opening

Review of previous students film opening

The film opening can be found on this page:
http://candiashalloffame.blogspot.com/

Timeline for 'Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3'

OUR TIME LINE AND SCREEN GRABS FOR: TAKING OF PELHAM 123. 

The below images are screen shots of the timeline we produced as a group during class  for the film 'Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'. Each member in the group contributed to this task, whether it be writing the time line, taking pictures or getting screen grabs from the film. Doing a time line of the opening of this film has been a massive help to us as individuals and as a group, as it has helped us realise what we need to include in the opening of our thriller film. 

We decided to make our timeline in a conventional way so instead of creating it on Blogger we decided to hand draw ours which proved to be much easier and different from the rest of the class.

Our final timeline of opening of the film 'The Taking in Pelham 123' was very successful. From the beginning to the end we added in the film name, producers, credits, production companies and many more important things in the sequence.

As you can see from the start of the opening sequence it had become very apparent that this film had a big budget. You could tell this by the amount of production companies at the start. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer is world renowned so it is no coincidence that there name is mentioned before anything in the film. 


After all the production companies you see Denzil Washington and John Travolta the main actors in the film. In films where the main characters are not necessarily recognised they would not be mentioned right at the start but an appeal of this Movie is the characters in the film
















Also, below, you can see screen grabs from the opening of the film. Each screen grab is included in our timeline, and each screen grab is in order of when it happens. The task was a massive help for us as a group, and has helped us realise the amount of work we need to put in for our film opening. 

The film I have chosen to Analyse and Evaluate is the Thriller: Phonebooth

The film I have chosen to Analyse and Evaluate is the Thriller: 

Phonebooth

This holiday and throughout my life I have always watched thrillers. I like the fact that a film can make you jump out your seat and entice you to watch while always leaving you guessing and contemplating the ending. The use of Mise-en-scene, sound, camera and editing. Out of the millions of Thrillers I have watched in my lifetime I decided to evaluate this film because the directer very cleverly used one place in the film and effectively. also I liked this thriller as a minimum use of characters was used. This allows us to sympathise with the characters in the film and identify the good from the bad. 

Mise-en-scene is used very effectively in this Movie Phone Booth. This is because the director very cleverly used one scene and setting for the whole film and still managed to add suspense without it getting boring. The title reflects the whole film and Mise-en-scene is used to create suspense especially when the Colin Farrel wants to leave the phone booth however he is scared of the consequences. 

Different camera angles are used to also create suspense and have us at the edge of our seats through out the whole film. Most of the film is filmed inside of the Phonebooth from a birds eye view. This ultimately gives us the thought that because Colin Firth is in danger the camera angle is directed in a certain way to show he has no power of the situation.

The ending of the film is very clever. As everyone starts to warm to the character we believe that the danger is over however the ending suggests otherwise. You see that the guy on the other end of the phone line is not dead however he is still alive and still has audacity to speak to Colin at the end. This sends shivers down your spine.

Comparisons to the film Collateral

Comparisons

In our group we had the option of picking one out of two short clips from the Video blog. We believed that collateral would be the easiest and simplest out of the two as well as being the most interesting. The part where we thought making a remake of our chosen clip would be easy and a piece of cake turned out to be a huge misjudgement. We did not figure this out until the actual day of filming. The story boards which we had drawn looked fairly simple. The first problem when filming was the characters and the lack of them. In the Collateral clip you see that there is many extras which helps the Mise-en-scene and creates a busy and bustling atmosphere. This is what we felt was particularly different to our remake and along with the sound. After running through out remake while editing we started to spot the silly and schoolboy errors. For example Mark is not holding the bag in one scene however in the next scene his is walking with the bag. In established films with big budgets small mistakes like this are spotted and fixed very quickly however we did not have enough time to go back out and film. When presenting our finished piece to the class our remake seemed to be very popular. There were many comparisons such as the way Me and Mark were Walking. The music was totally different to the music in the original clip however had the same impact. the indiegetic sound mixed in with the diegetic sound of the bag falling to the floor added to the tense scene and our back in track very cleverly reached a crescendo and paused at the most important bit in the clip.

For our first taste at filming i believe we done a very good job. We managed to establish who were the most comfortable actors in our group and also had a chance of editing our first piece. We fully took on board our classes and Louisa's constructive criticism and hopefully we would be able to in cooperate this into our thriller.

Elements of favourite thriller film

I am legend elements

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Elements Of Chosen Thriller Film

BULLET BOY - TRAILER:

The film I have chosen to evaluate on elements is: Bullet Boy, which was released in cinemas on April 8th, 2005. 

Firstly, throughout this film, there are many different camera shots, which are used to make a certain scene more interesting, and create a certain vibe to it. For example, when Ashley is having a chat with his younger brother towards to end, 4 different shots are used throughout, to show lots of emotion between the two characters. During this scene, there is a also a close up of each characters face, which adds emotion, as it showed how sad they were. In my opinion, it indicated that something bad was going to happen, and it did. It turned out that this was the last time they would see each other, as the older brother went out and was shot. This shows me, that specific camera angles can indicate certain things, and I will certainly take this into consideration for future projects. 

Editing was also used in an extremely clever way. An excellent example of this, is when Ashley's friend is in the shop buying food for himself. It cuts to his car outside, and two people with baseball bats about to smash it up. It keeps cutting between the two scenes, whilst the car is being hit, and the man is paying for his food. I believe this is very clever, as it is showing two opposite emotions. Anger and happiness. However, once the man walks out of the shop, the roles are reversed. He is now the angry one, and the two who destroyed his car are the happy ones. This was all made possible with the clever use of editing. I firmly believe this is something my group will take into consideration when filming our final project, as it is very effective. 

Finally, the use of Mise En Scene is very well constructed. It keeps to the generic stereotypes of things such as: youths, parents and cultures. An example of this, is the youths who begin to smash up the car both have hoods on. This is very stereotypical view of a youth on the streets of London, and the directors have kept to this. It en-captures the viewer, and enables us to think whether other parts of the film are also based on stereotypical views. In my opinion, a film which bases its views on lots of stereotypes can be very interesting, but so can a film which doesn't, as it can keep you guessing. 

All in all, I really enjoyed this films, and the elements in the film enabled me to. It is a big inspiration to me and my own work, and has got me thinking on a lot of things, such as: in my groups short thriller, should we stick to stereotypes or not? It has been very helpful to me. 

Comparison Of Original And Our Remake

ORIGINAL VIDEO:

Above is the clip that we had to remake as a small project in order to get used to using cameras, and help us learn to edit our work. We tried to recreate the scene as best as possible, however without certain props and no experience with the camera we found it hard. In the end, we believe we have recreated it quite successfully, even though there are a number of differences. Firstly, after finishing our edit of the scene, and publishing it onto our blog, it was pointed out to us that one of our scenes was un-organised. We had a scene of someone walking, when it cut to someone else. When it cut back to the scene of him walking, the bag was in his hand, unlike before when it wasn't. As well as that, we decided to use a non-diegetic sound clip in our scene, whereas in the original, it was diegetic, as you could hear people talking throughout the scene. Finally, we decided to add a couple of affects to ours which weren't in the original. An example of this is the slow motion affect we used twice. It made the clip much more interesting, and when we watched the clip back, we all agreed that the affect should be kept. 

All in all, we learned a lot from our remake, and although our remake can be improved, it has given us valuable experience, and has given us more ideas for our final project. 

Target Audience

Target audience

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Further research into thrillers

In my wordle, I have shown what is associated with a thriller.

Elements In Chosen Thriller Film

 Elements in chosen thriller

I have decided to write about the different elements used in the thriller film Devil. Devil was released on September 17th, 2010.

I have decided to do Devil as there are a lot of little things that inspire me and make me want to put in my thriller opening. There are many different camera shots used in the film mostly clos-up. This is good because as it is a thriller film it will be intence and will show us how the charactor is feeling. The close-up's will show the expression on the charactors face which will give a certain feeling to the audeince on what is happening. Also from the start of the film there are loads of long shots used to show the area the film is based in. It shows a very busy city with a lot of sky scrapers. This is good as it may give a sence of peace to the audience. This inspires me to do this at the start of my thriller opening. To give a long shot of a desserted town instead and show the viewers where the film will be based. Another thing about the camera angles that interested me was that whilst the guards were looking over the people trapped in the lift. It would be a high angle shot of the lift and those within it. It almost gave us the chance to know how the guards are looking on the situation.

I found the plot of the film to be very good. The film is mainly based inside a cramped lift with 5 people. I thinks it was good in how they decided to make it to be 3 men and 2 women stuck inside the lift. This is because when the attacks start happening it is very confusing to pick out who done it if it was anyone. Another thing which took my interest was that how everyone in the lift looked middle aged however only one charcter was old. In the end it shows that the Devil had took over the old womans body. This will again surprise the audience that the person least expected is infact the killer (Devil).  

Another thing about Devil that inspiers me is the amount of cuts that they used in the film. Neally every miniute there is a cut. This shows suspence as almost you can never take a rest. It gives excitment and also a thrill to watch as anything can happen. Also by using a ot of cuts it takes up less time as you can show more in one go. This is good as we will only have a limited time for out thriller opening so we would need to put as much in, in a small amount of time. The film as i said is mainly based in the lift and the security room of the building. whats interests me is how they would always cut from them two scenes and show no where else. It was really good in how it showed communication between the guards and the people trapped in the lift. In certain parts of the film there is nothing shown only diegetic sounds. This isterested me as it excites the viewer because as nothing can be seen and something only heard. It almost leaves a cliff-hanger as the audience will get more thrilled to know what was going on in the dark.

OFFICIAL TRAILOR:     

Few Screen Shots Of The Film:

Comparisons Between Original and Remake

Comparisons

We in our group had to do a remake of the clip taken from the film Collatoral. At first we thought it would not be a problem and e would be able to do it easily. However once we started we knew there would be a vast difference between ours and the original. There would be a difference mainly of Mise-en-scene and sound. After we finished the remake our video looked totally different to the original. The only thing that was he same was the actions that took place. There were a few mistkaes made while filming. Continuity was one of the problems that we had during the filming. This is because at one point one of the characters did not have the hand bag then again in the next scene he has. However this did not stop us in continuing and making a successful remake. Also we did not have the speech in the remake which was in the original instead we used non-diegetic sound throught the whole video.  Another aspect of our video that was not the same as the original was the camera shots we had done. The angels where different. We decided to this because we did not have the right ime and enough people to try and make it the same as the original. We also decided to use the slow motion effect. This was something that was not used in the original. However it did make our vide more worthwhile to watch back fter finishing.

However, we as agroup learned from these mistakes and will take them on board whilst doing our thriller opening. We do not take it as a mistake however take it as a lesson which we will do right next time and do ourselves proud. 

Original Video:

 

"Watching" Documentary about films and openings - research

I watched an half hour documentary about films and openings. In the documentary a man named Thomas Sutcliffe says "films need to seduce their audience into long term commitment. While there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go for instant arousal is almost irresistible." I think he meant that in an opening of a film you have to catch your audiences attention and keep them watching and that there are many 
ways to do this. He also mentions that many directors decide to do this from the start.


The risk of doing this is that you are then left to answer the question of what shocking things come next. There is always the risk, you have to take the chance but the negative outcome could be that you never quite answer the question and the rest of the film doesn't live up to the opening scenes.


A good beginning must make the audience feel that they don't know enough yet and at the same time make sure they don't know too little. You have to draw up rules of engagement, these crucial points at the beginning are crowded with anxiety. A deal has to be struck from the beginning, the film must come to terms with its viewers. You have to establish the tone so that the audience can adjust to its nature (whether they should be laughing, crying or scared).


A classic opening was described by a critic named Stanley Kauffmannn. He included the following:

• Film beginning with establishing shot (New York City)
• Close up of building
• Camera went up the building to a window
• Camera went into window
• Past receptionist
• To a private office

with all of this the opening informs the audience of the occupation of the main character, where they work and so forth. More importantly he said it highlighted the organisation of the world. It progressed, was rational and expected.

Kyle Cooper was created the title sequence to a film named Seven. It was very effective because it woke everyone up, told a story and introduced the obsessive nature of the main character. It also foreshadowed events and was incredibly influential.

Orson Welles created an opening sequence to the film 'A touch of evil'. He wanted the film to be done with no credits. This was done to plunge the audience into the story before they could even prepare for it. Universal studios put a nice score and credits over it so that the effect was lost. This is what happens when your signed a specific company.

'Favour trick of film Noir' means the beginning of a film is the ending, not quite a beginning at all. It is a quality many great films share and is basically a destination looking ahead to what is to come.

The film 'Shining' creates suspense because it has a easy uplift and the camera pursues the car like a predator.

Representation

This activity showed me how directors represent characters.

How teenagers are represented in ‘Misfits’. (Clip – YouTube – Misfits| A little heated E4)

The television drama ‘misfits’ is very stereo-typical it portrays youth to be very violent, sexually active and always looking for trouble especially in this clip. The two teenage characters costumes are very representative of their character. One female is wearing a bright orange jumpsuit indicating she is in some sort of youth offending program or probation, she is also wearing brand trainers displaying her age and that she is keeping up with the latest fashion. The other female is in a casual young scruffy outfit which consists of jeans trainers a jacket and hat. Many youth these days wear head gear in order to cover their face during crimes or to give off a certain persona which could be why this female is wearing a cap.

One female is slouching with one foot up on the sofa showing her comfort and carelessness. Her facial expressions and language are very patronising and aggressive. Her vocabulary is limited and shows that she is not well-educated and she talks fast with slang and swear words which automatically show her inconsideration for others around and highlights her bad attitude. Within the scene there is a fight which emphasise how teenagers can be so abusive and violent.

Post Production For Collateral Remake

Editing Process

The filming task for our collateral remake may have been fun, however the editing was quite different. As it was our first time using Final Cut Pro we had difficulties using it. Also it was our first time using the two connected mac screens which was also very new. However once we got started and got a few tips from the teacher we got on our way.

The screen shot above shows the 'bin' and the two screens. We decided to use only one of the mac screens to display everything as it will be easier to see everything. Also because using both of the screens was very confusing to us as we are still just starting off. From the image you can see that we had all of our chosen footage. However then we decided we wanted to add sound and also some effects to make it look even better.

This was the soundtrack we had decided to use. At first we thought that finding a soundtrack will be very difficult especially because it would be playing throughout the clip. This is because our original does not have any diegetic sound. The soundtrack will be played as non-diegetic music. However we got lucky as this soundtrack went perfectly along with our clip and also paused at moments where the video had slow motion.

This is the screenshot of our clip finally finished. As you can see from the Final Cut Bin we added slow motion in certain parts of it. Also another thing you can see is that the soundtrack has been inserted to play throughout the video. After having finished the video we had been told that we had made a minor mistake however it was not anything to panic about. We had been told that if we had inserted the separate clips into the bottom row of the bin, it would have been easier when coming to edit. However we did not ignore the teacher, but instead took the advice for future editing.

Overall I thought it was a really good exercise to help us understand and learn about both Final Cut Pro and also how to use the camera.    

Collateral Remake Comparisons

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Comparisons between our remake of 'Collateral' and original

This is the original clip that remade. There are a number of differences between our remake and the original such as props, costume and mise en scene. Another issue with our remake is continuity. At the beginning scene there's a shot of one character without the bag that he later on drops in the scene. This is a weakness that was pointed out by one of my fellow team members. Its a fault we can learn from when filming our thriller opening. Our sound is also different. In the original, you can hear the diagetic sound of people in the clip but with ours a non-diagetic instrumental was played.

Video of active post production

This is us during the post-production stage of our Collateral remake. We briefly discuss the strengths and weaknesses of us using Final Cut Pro.

Research into film genres

Collateral final.

This is our remake of the first 44 seconds, of the film named Collateral. We used a varied amount of effects, which included: slow motion and the use of a soundtrack.We believe we have been successful in doing this, and that we have built up suspense throughout, with the use of a soundtrack, and our clever use of slow motion.

Post production: Collateral remake

Post Production

Here we used Final Cut Pro to edit our footage. We found the task quite difficult to begin with but we then became familiar with all the different buttons and tools we needed to edit the film. We all contributed with ideas and criticisms of the film so that everyone had an input. After editing the whole short film we added special effects like slow motion and fades.

 

We put all our clips into the Final Cut Pro 'bin' where we could watch over them and decide on the correct clips to put together on the timeline. On the left viewing screen is where we watched and edited the clips and on the right viewing screen was the artistic whole. We dragged parts of clips onto the timeline and slotted them in the correct order so we could have different shots and points of view.

We found the above soundtrack on YouTube and all agreed to use it as a non-diagetic sound in our Collateral remake. It didn't take us much time to find a track and agree, this was the second one we played and it sounded perfect. The instrumental built suspense and had a crescendo which would be perfect with the action going on in our clip.

 Overall I think this was a great task to prepare us for the filming and editing of our thriller opening as a group, we worked as a group and the product was successful. We are now more familiar with the filming equipment and techniques and tools to use when using Final Cut Pro.

Storyboard Of Collatoral

 STORYBOARD SHOTS

Here are a few shots of the storyboad i had done before out filming task. We as a group split up the clip time so we could each focus on a certain part of the clip. It was very useful when we started filming as we knew what to film without watching the clip again. The storyboards also helped us in remembering what shot types to do for each part of the film.

Here is part of the storyboard when the second charactor is entering the scene. As you can see it is a close up of the character and the background is faded.

As a team i was allocated to do the storyboard for the first 11 seconds of the clip. Above is the first shot of the scene where it comes in from a long shot to a close up on the character. This part of the clip also has a faded background.

Video of active post production

This is us during the post-production stage of our Collateral remake. We briefly discuss the strengths and weaknesses of us using Final Cut Pro.

Video of active post production

This is us during the post-production stage of our Collateral remake. We briefly discuss the strengths and weaknesses of us using Final Cut Pro.

Screen Shots While Editing

Screen Shots While Editing

The editing process seemed very fun whilst looking back at it. When first taking the footage we though that we had took some good shots but nothing more. We believed that our remake of collateral would be fairly mediocre however the editing made our remake much better and gave it much more meaning.

The shot above was token when we managed to get a rough idea of the footage we wanted to be in our remake. Using final cut pro we used the timeline and above you can see that the footage lasts from O - 28 seconds when the collateral trailer was about 44 seconds. After much pondering we decided to add some effects such as slowing down some sequences etc..

The shot above is similar to the first screenshot we had took however it illustrates the use to both editing windows. on the far left is the screen where we could play back our footage and cut out anything we did not want or add anything we did. on the left is the window where we could see our trailer in full making the editing process much easier. 

Originally we believed that finding the soundtrack would be very tricky and hard as we did not have enough time to make our own. However the soundtrack that we found worked perfectly with our Movie sequence with breaks and suspenseful music the non dietetic soundtrack. 

When adding the sound in which is the green bar in the timeline we wanted to start the motion pictures on 14 seconds. As we uploaded the track we needed to extract it so it was compatible for final cut pro. As we found such a good soundtrack we did not see the need to break and add in any other effects other than fiddling around with the volume of the non dietetic sounds at certain points of our remake.