IMovie

I am going to be using IMovie software in order to upload, arrange and edit my teaser trailer footage. IMovie allows footage to be stretched, cut, re-arranged and also allows text, transitions and sound to be added to clips. Although the footage is self-explanatory and easy to use, there were some difficulties that arose which my group had to resolve in order to create a high quality teaser trailer. These technical hitches are as stated below:

• Adding Transitions: When adding transitions we found that they appeared to be very long and made out footage look like it was dragging on and wasn't flowing. We therefore had to work around this problem and find a way to shorten clips to ensure that our clips flowed into each other. We eventually found that the transition length can only be as long as the clips that are located either side of it. We therefore had to ensure that all clips were of a suitable length in order to ensure that transitions were suitable.
• Overlapping Sound: As we were going to be using more than one sound over our footage we had to find out how to place them both so that the tempo and beats correlated with each other and sounded good. We therefore found out that you had to upload them at separate times in order for them to both be placed in the same location.
• Slow motion: We wanted to include various amounts of slow motion throughout our footage, however we found that IMovie doesn't offer this effect and we would have to transfer our footage across to Windows Movie Maker in order to do this. We decided that this would take too much time, of which we didn't have, so we aborted the idea and used different effects instead. For instance, we used still images to create a freeze effect in one of our clips.

Apart from the problems stated above, we found that the rest of the footage was easily editable and therefore will allow us to create a teaser trailer that would portray and convey a professional image and aurora.