My current draft of my film trailer is coming together quite nicely. However, it is still lacking on the pace, tension and 'fear factor'. To make me trailer have more impact on the viewer, I will need to organise and plan more filming. This extra filming will contain jump scares from close ups of my characters faces and added sounds effects. I will also include a visual hint at the 'fear' within my narrative.
Before and After Editing
This is a screen shot of my shot from zoom into my bathroom window, the lighting outside was from a yellow bulbed street light.
When I edited this shot I cut some of the blur from the end as I felt it dragged on too much. The video animation for this clip consisted of: using the 'glory' filter, which gave it the white look and took away a lot of the orange. The next process was a zoom in the centre to give it a pinched and more distorted look. I then used the trim and transform tool to enhance the zoom. Finally, I then distorted the four corners to make the clip look less boxy.
This shot was filmed through a window inside the house where most of my other footage was filmed, I used my zoom on the camera to do it and it was originally just a text shot but looked effective once I had edited it.
To achieve this final look I began by cropping down the clip as it dragged on a bit, I also altered the speed of the clip to add to the pace of my trailer. After this I added two filters to the clip to make it fit in with my house style of my trailer which were called artifacts and dream. I then again used transform and trim to enhance the zoom on the clip. Finally, I reused the distortion FourCorners to soften the clip so it didn't look too boxy and I also altered the opacity for this effect as well.
Current editing for trailer
For my trailer I have found that after a few weeks of editing, the pace of my trailer is not where I would like it to be. Not all of footage is in yet and I still have some re-filming to do, so when I have done this it will add more of a storyline to my trailer as well as making it look less repetitive. I am very pleased with how well my chosen soundtrack is editing. despite it effecting the pace however, I can introduce a more upbeat soundtrack later on in my trailer when I have found something that works well. One element of my trailer that I will focus on when filming is the continuity, so I will ensure that both of the girls will appear the same as they do in my current footage to avoid confusion of the footage being from multiple days. However, I will change their appearance for some of the filming especially when I shoot in a different location to enhance the narrative.
