On this day of editing my primary focus was to create a gunshot effect which I could attach to our original footage. I had hoped that this would make our teaser trailer look a lot more professional. When originally thinking of how I would create this effect, the first thought I had was to download a readymade animation from a website that I had found called ‘Footage Crate’ which had readymade muzzle flash animation which I could incorporate and edit into our trailer. The good thing about this website was that it had a wide range of muzzle flashes with fine bits of detail such as smoke and realistic flashes. However, due to the fact that we were using the colleges Apple Mac the programs I needed to add the muzzle flashes were somehow blocked and I would not let me do it.
My other idea was to personally create the flashes myself and somehow edit them into our sequence. I would use a program called ‘Paintbrush’ which is a program that is easily accessible on Apple macs. This program enabled me to get a screen shot from our trailer and personally edits the colours. I had to get the screen shot that was exactly when I had made the shooting motion and getting this exact point took some time. After I had got this point I had ‘Split the Clip’ and it had given me a freeze frame which I could then copy and paste into ‘Paintbrush’. To create the gun-shot effect I had made bright yellow lines which were like sparks and had added some grey lines at the back of the gun which looked as though the gun was snapping back.
(Here is a screenshot of the Website ‘Footage Crate’)
Below is a couple of screen shot from I-movie which show the difference between before the gun shot creation and after. The obvious change is the spark which makes the shot look a lot more realistic.
Here is the finished image of the gun shot.
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