It's official. The full trailer for Blood + Roses is finished and up on the internet. You can watch it now at the official website - http://www.bloodandrosesmovie.com and on YouTube at - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK-PaWhWtJ4.

Back on the 30th March, I sent a video file of the trailer to Jon Orten to compose the music. He sent me the track the very next day. It was great. It just needed one little change and it would be perfect. I emailed Jon back with the change I wanted and I got the new track the very next day. The track was perfect. It really adds to the trailer.

Then on the 4th April, I went round to Marcelo's place with the video and music for the trailer. I left it with Marcelo to do over the weekend. While I was there, we went through the film, twice. The first pass I pointed out things that I wanted done for the sound. The second pass we looked for dialogue that needed replacing. Marcelo identified more lines of dialogue that needed replacing. (I am currently in the process of arranging a day for the actors to come in and re-record their dialogue) After that I had to rush off to work, but Marcelo was going to get straight to work on trailer, adding a bit of sound design to it and mixing the sound and music together.

On the 6th April, Marcelo emailed me a MP3 of the mix. I had several listens to it and everything sounded fine. So I asked Marcelo to send me the uncompressed sound file to me. I received it the following day. When I listened to it, I noticed that the dialogue was being drowned out by the music. It wasn't like that in the MP3. I guess we can't trust the mixing in MP3s.

So I quickly emailed Marcelo back and asked that he raise the volume of the dialogue. He made the changes and sent me the new sound file on the 8th April. I added it to the timeline of the trailer, on Final Cut Pro, and then exported the whole video to my desktop.

It was time to start compressing the video for the internet. I decided to start encoding the trailer for YouTube first, as it's the hardest to get look good. It took several attempts to get right. Each time I encode the video, I had to upload the video to YouTube to see what it looked like. I would set the to private, so no-one could see it until it was ready. It took me about five attempts to get one that looked good. Once I had done that, I left the trailer on there, set to private and started to encode the trailer for the official website.

This was easier as I had the pre-sets from last time I compressed video for the official site. This part   didn't take long to do. It was uploading the files to website that takes time, especially the HD ones.  The 1080p one is the over 100mb in size and takes ages to upload. Why does uploading take longer than downloading. I have no idea, but it is a pain.

So on the afternoon of 11th April, the trailer was ready to be shown to the world. The trailer was up on the official website and on YouTube, I set the trailer's status from private to public. Once that was done, I announced to all my friends on Facebook that the trailer was up on YouTube and people have started to watch it. In the last few days I had 130 hits on the page, and there are three comments left, all liking the film.

All there is left for me to do now is to upload the trailer to other websites like the fanpage on Facebook, the MySpace page and of course put it up on this site. So as soon as they are up, I will let you know via this blog.

Also, just to point out that there is an interview with Marysia Kay, by MJ Simpson, on the internet. You can read it here at http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/interviews/marysiakay.html.