Our trailer

These are the first steps we are taking in producing our trailer, we have produced a script which we plan on turning into a story board before filming so we can follow how we are going to shoot on the date of filming.

As we have stated in previous posts on this blog, our inspiration came from other trailers, and we took different elements and added them to our own trailer to make sure we conveyed trailer conventions and make it look as realistic as possible.

Here is our first draft after editing trailer for The Cult, this is what we will be showing in class for feedback on Wednesday.

After showing the trailer in class on wednesday we got lots of feedback. We don’t particularly like what we came up with; so the feedback we got helped us immensely to turn our piece of film around in the editing room.We particularly got feedback on the transitions between shots, and the credits. We originally had the shots with a fade in, fade out black – black effect, which we kept but changed the timing between each as we got further towards the end to make it snappy to create more tension. When Lucy runs up the stairs we were advised for the banging of the stairs to then carry on throughout the rest of the trailer. We learnt that this would increase the tension and the shock factor. The audience then told us that we should drop the banging at the credits to give the impression that the trailer has finished, however the banging would start up again when Lucy screams to heighten the shock.The most occurring comments was that the trailer didn’t seem fast paced enough for the typical conventions of a horror teaser trailer, so what we was going to do was re-film altogether but then once we had further feedback we released we had great potential with the footage we already had but all we had to do was edit it a lot better, and add sound to more of our advantage. Troubles that we had while filming where getting the camera at the right angle to see Lucy screaming, however after playing with the tripod we figured it out. While filming the street scene where Lucy and Lewis are walking towards the camera we had a lot of cars come past the first couple times, which therefore made it so you couldnt here them talking. As well as this the first place we picked was too dark so it was hard to see them furthur back, to overcome this we moved the camera under a street light.

FINAL TRAILER