Editing Techniques

The editing software that we used was Final Cut, whereas last year we used Adobe Premiere.

On the software we used a range of different editing techniques, which we felt matched our target audience and the soap genre.

The editing techniques that we used were:

Voice Over
We realised from our research that most of the Soap trailers had a voice over. We decided to get a female to do our voice over because it was used in other soap trailers we watched.

Cuts
We watched a Soap trailer which was for Hollyoaks, and he had a total of 35 cuts, so therefore we decided to include a few simple cuts in our trailer, and it also worked out well that Hollyoaks were boradcasted by Channel 4 too.

Fade to Black
We used this editing technique when the car went past the pub, and the camera zooms into the pub window. The main aim for this type of editing technique is so that we could try and make the audience think we were going through the pub window.