Its SHOWTIME!!

Yeah, lame title but you get the idea

After the surprising success of my DVD sleeve project, it is now time to to tackle the trailer. I have as much experience as everyone else but I always want to push myself to see how well I can do, such as the Illustrator and Photoshop tasks so this is no different. So here is want I have done so far:

Making the initial timeline

The very first thing I had to do was gather the material I wanted to use. Since I changed the sleeve from game to movie, it did make it slightly easier for the trailer. I recorded some of my own footage and downloaded various audio files to use. So after I had imported all of the files into separate bins, I dragged a video straight to the timeline and delete it. The reason for this was so that I could have all of the footage run at a consistent frame rate and so that I also had the correct settings for the footage I was using.

From there, it was just a matter of watching each video and dragging just the video only. There was a lot of initial editing with adjusting the length of the video and in some instances, speeding up clips to make sure the entire trailer was under 1 minute. From here, I laid a few audio tracks down and had a few overlapping to give me the effect I desired as seen below:

The sequence so far

With all the initial audio and video in place, the next step was to add special effects using after effects. So now would be a good time to quit the blog for today as I will have to continue reading books and watching tutorials.