Editing Day 1

When I began editing, the first thing I did was import all the clips that I liked and began cutting them so that the same section of the trailer was shown from many different points of view. Once I had done this I realised that as I had changed the storyline slightly during filming, there wasn't as many clips with dialogue as I had first planned but I made the most of it and began placing them in between the dancing shots. I then began adding the music that I had chosen and began testing where to put each non-diegetic clip to create emphasis at select parts of the trailer.

When adding the music to the clips I had edited, I watched both the Step Up and Step Up 2 trailers over again so I could try and match similar styles of transitions and ways of switching music tracks without being so obvious and distracting the audience. I noticed that in both trailers, neither use average 'cut' transitions between each clip as they also include fade in and fade out transitions, where as in my planning and animatic I had planned to just cut between each shot. I also noticed that in both Step Up and Step Up 2 trailers short sound clips of bursts or sharp sound are used with a sharp change of shot or music so that the music is blended better.

I used this to my advantage and searched for a short burst of sound that I could use between shorts so that the music was blended better and easier to watch and listen to. By watching the other trailers I also found that neither trailer goes straight into the storyline of the film like I had orginally planned in my animatic, as both trailers use shots of dancers to introduce the storyline at the beginning without actually introducing the characters.

This lead me to search for a simple track with strong beats for the beginning of my trailer so that I could use short but strong images of dancers with the fade in transition so that it made it obvious to the audience what the trailer was about but without introducing the characters.
Also I found in the trailer for Step Up 2 that a rhetorical question was used including the title of the previous film saying 'Are You Ready To Step Up?'. I really liked this effect because it implied the storyline and link with the dancing form the previous film so I decided I would mimic this technique and include the question 'Ever Wanted To Just Dance?', as the title of the film is Just Dance.