I wanted a section of my trailer to include elements of 'home footage' whereby clips will look to the audience that they have been recorded by the characters, and at this point the characters are aware they are being recorded.
I tried several ways of making it look like home footage just by using premiere pro however it looked unprofessional and not 100% authentic.
I then tried using Photoshop to create the recording text and frame in separate layers, changing the time and date to the appropriate clip that it would be matching. Having used Photoshop last year, I am more experienced on it and had the skills to do so. To ensure that I had the look of an authentic home footage recording, I researched some other ones to ensure it looked as genuine and professional as possible.
I found that typical conventions that I needed to include in mine were:
- Battery sign
- 'REC' sign
- red recording button - flashing
- Framing around the sides - corner
- Time/date
I imported the layers I had created, into premiere pro and applied them to the frames that I wanted to have the 'home footage' effect. This worked really well. The size had to be altered slightly to fit the frames.
Aside from this, I found that, as I'd recorded the 'home-footage' and actual footage on the same camera, they were of the same quality, which, in a typical trailer/film, this wouldn't be the case. In order to the differ the two, I changed the colour effects on the 'home footage' giving it a slightly bluey tinge enabling it to appear as a lower quality in comparison with the actual footage in the trailer.
Below is the end result, I am extremely pleased with it as I feel it looks authentic and professional:
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