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.
