First Trailer Finished!

Finally finished the first trailer for “Our Side of Joy”! I really enjoy editing because it is amazing to see how you can create art with the original footage that I shot.

One of the main challenges I had with editing of course was knowing when to stop editing. When is your art ever “good enough”? :) The other thing was getting a feel for the length of the titles. It is a fairly straightforward thing to add titles to the trailer but between those and adding the music, it was kind of a back and forth thing with the title length.

The final challenge was the music. On one hand, I am capable of scoring the film(s) myself. I have a pretty strong musical background and an extensive audio library. But that aspect of filmmaking is a whole other project within itself. Being that I plan, shoot, edit, and pretty much handle every aspect of my film projects, doing the scores for all trailers and two different documentaries is a bit much. :) So I spent countless hours online looking for suitable, affordable audio to use for these film projects. I find that a great deal of the music available is quite substandard and on top of being substandard it is expensive. But fortunately I was able to find an incredible music source with excellent music compositions at affordable rates. It turned my frown upside down! hahahahaha.

Once I had the music picked out and added, I decided I was done with the first trailer. Do I think it’s 100% perfection, not at all but I think its effective, concise and says what I need it to say. The second trailer for “Our Side of Joy” focuses on the relationship between Marlo and Michelle.

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Tressa Sanders - who has written 107 posts on Three West.

Tressa Sanders, founder of Three West Creative Development, Asabi Publishing, and Ijaba Films, provides active learning, workshops for business Image, publishing, creative writing, graphics design, and filmmaking. In addition, she has authored the curriculum for the Big Bad Business Image, Concise Publishing, and Creative Writing workshops as well as several literary titles. Tressa also holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology and authored the introduction for a book titled “A Peek Inside the Goo: Depression & The Borderline Personality”. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Tressa was a well established Information Technology professional working with the largest IT, communication, utilities and financial companies in the country. Some of the companies Tressa has worked for include, the New York Independent System Operator, GE Capital Business Asset Funding, IBM Global Services, AT & T Wireless, Hewlett Packard, MCI/Worldcom, GTE, and Sprint. Her areas of expertise include: Publishing Startup & Planning, Business Image Planning, Creative Writing Development, Effective Graphics Design, Cost Conservative Filmmaking.

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