Teaser Trailer Editing

In order to piece my film clips together I used a software called Sony Vegas Pro. This was new to me as I had previously only used Windows Movie Maker however through practice and trial and error I managed to produce the final product with the appropriate effects and transitions that I had in mind on my storyboard.


The first image was created in Microsoft Publisher and is a conventional feature of film trailers as it tells and audience its age restrictions and content. I found an example of one on the internet and used this as a guide so I knew what colours and type of text to use.


Following this I watched all of my footage and cropped it to choose much smaller snippets of the film which were most important and relevant to the plotline. This took a long time as I had filmed lots of different types of shots and angles, and I had to decide which were the most effective whilst still keeping them varied. I put them in the correct order and muted the videos so I could add sound on.


As it is a horror film trailer with the purpose of frightening an audience and having them on the edge of their seat I edited the lighting of each of the video clips by decreasing the opacity. This gave it a darkened appearance whichI feel is much more befitting for a teaser trailer of this genre.


The sounds I chose came from www.freesound.org, a royalty free website full of sound clips and music for every mood and genre. I had already decided that I wanted an eerie sound of a music box playing in my teaser trailer as this relates to the theme of babies. I also used the sound of a babies cry as this can be seen as a most distressing sound. I then looped the sounds to make them long enough for the duration of the trailer and put them together to sound like one longer track.


As the film clip of appraching the door appears several times within the trailer I decided to slow down the speed of this clip to create more suspense. This looked most effective on the final scene when the audience sees the silouhette of a figure reaching for the door handle. I slowed down the speed oof the very first scene too, as it is a happy image and represents how this characters life was before the horrible and mysterious things begin to happen.


The text I used between shots was created in Photoshop. I chose a font similar to the one I used for my poster and magazine front cover and used a bright red with black background which ties in with my colour scheme throughout. I then saved these individualy and inserted them as images into Sony Vegas Pro. To give a zoomed effect I increased the size of the image and animated this, making it look as if the text is coming towards an audience. I also created a smokey effect by inserting a media genrator called 'Marble'. I changed the background of this effect to transparent and its foreground to red. As the original effect was vertical I flipped it on its side to make it horizontal and appear as if the text was seeping out through the smoke. I changed the progress to 'animate' and edited the speed to slow it down. The final text slide used the logo of 'Instinct' that I had used throughout my tasks and the same effects were applied to this.


Finally I inserted transitions between each of the clips to give it a smoother finish and make it look much more professional. I used the 'fade through black' effect as this is the most conventional for film trailers.

Film Teaser Trailer

This is my final film teaser trailer.

Enjoy!

I have also posted the trailer on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cshe3zshu1Q

Sound

The sounds I wanted to use have to either be mae by myself or taken from royalty free msuci websites. As the software i have access to is limited and i am not quite familiar with its use, I chose to browse through different websites to find the sounds I wanted. I found that http://www.freesound.org/ was the most useful and this is where I got all of my sounds from. The babies cry was very straight forward to find however the main soundtrack to the trailer was more difficult. Using my mindmap I searched different key words such as 'eerie', 'nursery rhymes' and 'horror'.
I eventually came across the sound of a ropey music box which gave me chills and so decided to use this throughout my trailer. It wasn't quite long enough to accompany all of my footage so I looped it on the Sony Vegas Pro software and it finished at the right place. I slowed the song down a little to make it more creepy and feel that its connotation of being quite jolly juxtaposes the chilling atmosphere of the horror film.

Actor Profile

Name: Sarah Barden

D.O.B: 28.10.1993

Age: 18

Profession: working actress

Nationality: British

Place of Birth: Shrewsbury

Education:

- Shifnal Primary School

- Idsall School

- Idsall Sixth Form

Height: 5ft 6

Hair colour: light brown

Eye Colour: blue

I made the actress look more like a mum in the film trailer by dressing her in ordinary attire - jeans and a t shirt. She wore minimal make up and her hair was simply clipped in a no-fuss manner. I believe this is an accurate representation of a modern day mum and is something that an audeince would be able to relate to.

Prezi Teaser Trailer Storyboard

When I had drawn my first storyboard on paper, I discovered that some of the shots didn't have the same effect and so I created this Prezi Presentation to show my new and improved storyboard for my teaser trailer in chronological order.

Storyboard on Prezi

Camera Shots & Angles Research

I carried out research on different camera shots and angles that I could use in my teaser trailer. I found these websites very useful and also found a SlideShare presentation which gave lots of information about additional things to consider when filming such as continuity. I hasten to add that I DID NOT MAKE THIS PRESENTATION, I merely used it for my research and to gain more knowledge in order to make my teaser trailer as good as it can be.

Camera Shots, Angles, Movement - Camera Basics

View more PowerPoint from M Y

http://www.mediaknowall.com/camangles.html
http://solematesfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/research-camera-shots-angles-and.html

Teaser Trailer Mindmap

Again my ideas are clearly set out using a mindmap regarding everything I need to consider when making the teaser trailer.

Facebook

I created a page on Facebook onto which I uploaded my products and requested feedback from a selected audience. Here is a link to this page:
http://www.facebook.com/a2mediainstinct