Editing

After filming over an hour worth of footage, it needed to be cut down to 60-70 seconds for our trailer. Before filming our footage we had made a storyboard and filming schedule, this made filming much easier as we had a storyboard to follow and filming schdule to go by, this way we did not waste time and were able to get onto editing quicker.


To edit our footage we used a program called Adobe Premier Pro CS3. In editing we all had our input into the trailer, through making decisions such as how the order of the trailer scene should go as we changed it slightly from the storyboard and having a go on editing parts of the trailer.

We had changed the trailer from the storyboard by having young Alex count along the events, from good to bad on her tenth count Lucas steps out behind Alex. Whilst editing we followed the storyboard as much as we could however the trailer needed some elements that the storyboard did not have, so as a group we thought of bits and pieces we could have in the trailer and what we shouldn't. Some scenes had to be darkened by reducing the intensity of the colour, as when they were filmed they were done in the daylight so that the camera picked up the light making the image clearer. In horror films some of the main icons are shadows and darkness; this is because it makes the scene tenser. In the Blair Witch Project the running scene with the girl is scary, this is because as the audience we can hear her high pitched breathing and running noise, but can't see a lot making audience members feel uneasy and scared to what is going to happen next. This inspired us to do a similar scene in our trailer.

Tthe running scene was chopped and darkened this emphasised Alex being chased and was dangerous, it also went along with the heavy breathing sounds which were later added on, using Premiers sound move tool. However darkening the shots and chopping them up still did not have a scary feel for the trailer. Sound really emphasised it, which was created through loud bangs, breathing noises, leaves crunching and the soundtrack.

The soundtrack went with the pace of the trailer and went perfectly however it then turned from it being scary to a music beat after the doll in the tree scene. Finding the music for the trailer was hard. However searching for quite a few days we found a piece that fit with the timing sequence of the trailer, the music had a horror element to it which fit perfectly with our trailer. Some of the ways the trailer conforms to the horror trailer genre is through the darkened isolated shots, of Alex in the woods.