A2 Media Horror Trailer

This is our horror trailer that we created and uploaded on to youtube.

Editing trailer 3

Today we showed our lecturer paul the footage that we have edited so far which is 1minute 13 seconds long. this included all our completed footage, with the title certificate, lionsgate logo, fades between two scenes and the title of our movie followed by a Coming soon screen and our 'movie website', paul really like our trailer and commented on how we have a good use of sound effects over our clips. paul also suggested some more editing tips for us to include.

• include a fade between the clip of the 3 girls walking and the first text clip
• include a fade just before the second piece of text
• add the ambient sound that we have used over some of our clips to the clips with no sound
• make the first and second text clips the same font

These little changes will benefit us in making our trailer look and sound as good as possible.

We have now made them changes and also managed to used the font that we downloaded for out movie title, The Unknown as we didn't know how to use it before.
this is what the movie title looks like.

Logos

 To make our trailer seem more true to life we researched some movie trailers to see what features they included. We found that they all had a movie certificate title shot at the beginning of the trailer. This is an american certificate, labelled restricted which is what we need to have for our trailer as it is a horror. We will input this into our trailer followed by a fade to black, this would make it look more realistic as a trailer.

Trailers also included a logo screen of the company that produced the movie. we chose Lionsgate as it fits with our genre and is a corporation that it responsible for some box office horror hits, such as american psycho and Saw. As we would like to think our movie would be a success in the box office we decided to use this Lionsgate logo in our trailer, it will appear after the fade to back from the certificate shot, as this is how other movie trailers has there sequence of events.

music research

Today we were looking for music that we could have as a backing track throughout our trailer. We are only  using music that is copyright free, the website that we used was www.freesound.org there was many music clips to chose from in the horror genre but we needed to make sure they linked into to the paranormal theme that we are using and also to our storyline of 3 girls being lost in a forest.

www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=2855 this is one sound effect we chose call horror_ambient its quite creepy sounding and make you feel in suspense that something is going to happen shortly after the music has stopped. when the clip is playing you can also imagine that this would be the kind of music playing if you were lost in a scary forest in the darkness.

www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=35716 this is one scream we looked at to play at the end when the clip of the 3 girls are running away, we did think that the scream was not scary sounding enough to fit in with our trailer. This scream is still an option but we are most likely going to try and find another scream that will be more suited.

www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=20684 This is a clip of an owl that we will add into our trailer somewhere just to give the forest a gloomy feel at night as owls will be around where the location of the forest is.

we will input these into our trailer to see how they sound alongside each scene of our trailer, and if they give the right effect to our trailer that we want. we may go back onto freesound.org to research some more later on.

Editing session 2

Last Week we started editing our footage for the second time, we had about 4 minutes of footage that we filmed. we watched all the footage through and we had quite a lot of usable footage that could work well together with the footage we filmed before. the footage we filmed the second time is during the day which means that it will give our trailer a day to night feel, following what the 3 friends in our trailer went through throughout the day. We cut down our footage to 51seconds with only adding a few transitions between some scenes next editing session we will add logos and text clips into our trailer to get our first draft trailer.

Second filming session

On Wednesday the 24th november kate, katie and myself went out to the woods that is next to our college to continue  filming footage for our trailer, it was in the middle of the day so it was brighter than the first time we filmed when it was really dark and our footage was'nt as clear as we wanted. As we filmed in the daylight we will now be able to change the effects of the footage into black and white or an effect that would make our trailer look more like a horror. We managed to get all the footage we need and we now have to cut it down and edit it which will be done before christmas.
We filmed location shots of the woods along with clips of katie, kate and i acting within the trailer, we filmed the scenes in a way that we can cut back and forth to the footage we had shot first of all to make it not look too different when watching the trailer.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

for the next filming session

We still have to film some more footage for our trailer which we are going to film on wednesday 24th november. the footage we still have to get is:

• shot of the cast hearing noises 
• a long shot of the woods to show where they are and what they are seeing
• a close up of one of the actors face, worried 
• shot of the camera on the floors showing feet walking away