Editing Planning

 As I research how to edit movie trailers I came across some essential elements that present in most trailers, and the meaning of all these elements. Trailer editing seems mostly as an easy task, because how hard can it be to edit a 2 minute clip? That's what I used to think before I did my research. As editing trailers are more of a skill set rather than something that is built overnight, with that said it will be real challenge  for me  since i have little to almost no experience in editing. But these are some of the things I learned and want to  implement while editing. 

1. Telling a story with style. 

Styling in fact it is arguably more important than the story itself, if you show someone a trailer with great editorial style regardless of the actual story of the movie, they will probably still think the movie is good, just by the way you styled the story. To achieve this I need to pace out story beats, and add accents and short style moments in between. 

What the style of the line/ moment should look like while editing. 

2. Purpose of style moments. 

-Keeps the viewers engaged and they break up the monotony of the exposition with interesting shots and sounds. 

-It gives the viewer time to comfortably process the story information and understand what is going on. 

- Use music rhythm as guide for exactly how to pacer these lines and moments. 

Mash up of the rhythm f the music, accents, line, and moments should look like. 

3. Consider cause & effect

- Think about how one shot might flow into another. Consider how i can mash up a head movement into a big action or like we always see, a gun shot leading to an explosion. Think about how I can creative while editing, 

- Consider focal point location in each shot, for example if something in one shot is moving from left to right you want the next shot to take place from the right. 

Example of how the shot moved from right to left and picked up on the left side on the next shot. 

- Consider shot grouping, most of the times multiple shots are going to be from one scene, that lead to another short combo of shots from another scene. It is all about how you group  them. The shot group should each tell micro stories in the montage. 

These are some of the main concepts in trailer editing that I want to focus on getting better at and utilize in my  production.