Editing: Trailer Format

I decided to start editing some of my first shots together. At this point, I was just playing around and seeing what order I wanted to put my shots in, and what looked best, and also if I wanted to dissolve one shot into another or something.
When I had finished looking around the editing programme and had tried some different things out, I started to have more of an idea of what I wanted to do.

From this, I decided that I needed to put a dissolve or something in-between my two shots. I decided I needed to do this as the one shot would just jump into the other shot, and it didn't look smooth it just looked like two shots cut together, which isn't what it should look like. However, when adding in this "Cross Dissolve" effect, it looks more gentle and sleek.

 I then decided to cut down the size of shots, as some of them lasted a lot longer than wanted and if I put them in as a full shot, it would look more like a short film, as I came to the conclusion that I wanted my trailer to be short and snappy shots and didn't want it to drag. From this, I decided to cut my shots down from around 5 seconds each, to around 2 - 3 seconds each.