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Sunday 19 February 2012

Soap Trailer final draft

After receiving plenty of feedback containing both compliments to the original, and also lots of constructive criticisms on what could be improved, it was time to re-edit our trailer tailoring to these new suggestions.
The main changes that have been made consist of timing issues, and some of my own personal modifications. A prime example of the timing issues is that the first draft was much longer, by around 20 or so seconds which is a substantial amount of time regarding trailers. This was due to many shots being unnecessarily long, and as of such made the trailer drag for much longer than it needed to. When editing this draft, I went through every single scene, cutting and removing entire sequences that did nothing to advertise the Soap, but only made it drag. As of such, I was able to create a trailer that was much faster and had better pacing between scenes making it more dynamic.
A second change I made was one of my own ideas, and that was the music. Due to the first trailer being much longer, the song we play over the trailer went on much longer also, and I did not feel that the bass solo in the middle of the song helped advertise the show, and ultimately distracted from the trailer. As of such, in the original I looped the first half of the song. The result, despite my best efforts, was a sudden jump in the audio, which, although nobody mentioned it in the feedback, was very obvious. As of such I decided that, now that the trailer is shorter, I was able to play the song normally, and therefore could have a much more fluent soundtrack throughout the trailer.

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