EDITING

After creating our storyboard, uploading the film footage onto movie maker and starting to piece our trailer together, a lot of editing was needed in order to ensure we produce a product we are happy with.

Once our footage was uploaded to movie maker we were able to get creative with following andf challenging codes and conventions. Although we both have had previous experience with movie maker there were a lot of things which we were able to discover and things which would help enhance our final product. We thought it would be interesting to experiment with use of black and white as well as colour. Initially, we had all the shots with the villain involved in black and white and all those of the victim in colour. This would show the clear difference between a woman leaving work and getting along with her everyday life and a man who has dark motives and, essentially, is the villain of a horror movie. Although this challenges codes and conventions and feedback we got from our audience research, we decided it would accurately convey the horror genre and so we then decided to commit to this idea and put our whole trailer in black and white.

The next thing we decided to edit was slowing down and speeding up shots. We were able to do this with ease and it allowed us to create the effect we desired during the storyboard stages.

When using movie maker we were able to add in extra text. This is a common code and convention of trailers, particularly horror trailers. This allows the trailer to be narrated without having a voiceover distract from what is going on, on screen and also it allows the audience to fully submerge into the story as they can read it how they like without a voice sounding one particular way. The have free reign and can choose to understand the text without any other influcene.

'INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS'

Having this as the first text the audience reads when viewing the trailer, we are following the codes and conventions of the horror genre. After analysing existing horror trailers, we found using these words is very effective on the audience. The feelings we experiencing when reading these words are ones of fear. This allows the audience to identify with the victim and put themselves in their shoes. The accept the trailer as realistic and therefore buy into it a lot more as opposed to if it was an over the top horror film with zombies and unbelieveable aspects within it.

This is the next text which appears in our trailer. It follows a long shot of the villain standing next to the tower. This compliments that shot as the tower has religious connotations. This helps the audiences understanding of the film as straight away they understand that whatever is going to happen is going to be the cause of a religion/belief.

This follows after shots of the villain up close, with a direct mode of address, blowing out his candle. This represents he has finished his 'worship' and is now prepared to continue with his orders. The word 'ordered' is powerful and it makes the audience think he hasn't got a choice but to continue the way he is. Some could feel sorry for him as it is as if he is forced to carry out evil tasks but when seeing the look of determination on his face and looking into his eyes, they can see that he is happy to go along with his beliefs.

Before this shot, we see the vitcim walking home from work still but she is headed in the direction of the villain. The suspense is building up and the audience will be eager to dscover what happens next. Using only the word 'to' on shot will help build up to the climax. No only does it achieve the desired effect but it also makes sure the audience are engaging fully with our trailer as they will need to concentrate to piece the message together.

After 'to' has come on screen, the we edited the music in order to compliment the climax approaching in the trailer. Before 'kill' we show the victim and villain finally coming into contact. The victim is till walking home when behind her we see the villain run past. There is a quick cut edit to show the victim turning around to as she had heard/felt someone behind her, we then see the villain appear behind her. We zoomed up the shot to have him standing working towards her and then slowed it down again to show the detail of his hood billowing in the wind and the vitcims expression slowly changing as she realises what's about to happen to her. After 'kill' we see a shot of the villain holding the victims lifeless body in his arms. The text compliments this image and should provide the audience with a chilling atmoshpere.

We included these last two pieces of text because since we decided to challenge the codes and conventions of a trailer, which is to usually show the highlights of the film, we decided to have our trailer as a mini film but missing out the main exciting bits, the killing. At first, when watching our trailer, our audience may feel they've seen the whole storyline of our film but when they read this text they will realise this is only a very small snippet of film. This will make them want to view our trailer even more as they haven't seen the best bits, they haven't seen any gore but they have got an idea of what is going to happen and so they'll want to finish this story.