Software Research:

When making our products during A2 as well as AS, we wanted to use the most professional and experienced software which would help make our final product exciting and masterly. During editing the type of software is essential for gaining a high grande and achieving successful things. It's likely for A2 we will use Adobe Premier Elements 10 like AS as we understand how to use it and managed to create a high graded opening two minutes last year. As a group we know how to cut, paste, transform, include soundtrack and do other interesting and skilful edits. 

Adobe Premier Elements 10

This is the software that we used during AS level. It was extremely useful last year, as our teachers were able to explain effectively how to use it to the best of our ability. It only seems ideal to use again as we all have familiar recognitions with the software. It presents a simple layout, which has obvious names files and sections, including timeline, get media, transitions and render. This software would benefit our trailer as we are able to do many professional things including, edit a green screen. Unlike other softwares, like movie maker, we won't be able to get the advanced settings. Transitions such as fading to black are useful when making a horror film, as it leaves a tense and suspicious atmosphere. 

Movie Maker

We used Movie Maker when making our animatic storyboard. It's a fairly simply and easy software which allowed us to place one piece of un-copyrighted music to the soundtrack and put all the images together as a slideshow. The software is very simple and not good enough of A level. We wouldn't be able to use transitions to help create tense atmospheres as well as changing the type of music to fit the scene. The only benefit from Movie Maker, is that it's quick. Unlike Adobe it is fast at processing and uploading. This is only due to Adobe being more advanced and professional taking longer to upload quality footage. It a good software to use for storyboard and shot clips like merging character interviews, however, I wouldn't feel it would be successful for creating out final product. 

iMOVIE

iMovie is a software on apple devices including Macs, iPads and  the iPhone. It is a very good software for creating trailers as it makes it's own titles and fonts to fit your genre type. This isn't great as we want to make out own titles, which will fit perfectly to our type of trailer. We also need to write about the editing techniques in our exam which means there won't be much to write about with iMovie. There is another section to iMovie which is more useful when making a film. As we are making a trailer we need it to be short and effective with the appropriate titles etc.