Editing Day Three

Our movie trailer has now finally started to come together. We have completed editing the first five scenes of the trailer and added music underneath. We chose some music that has a ghostly feel to it, to give the impression that the characters are being watched. We added the establishing shot to the start of the trailer. We decided against using the motionless wide/long shot and instead, we used, the shot that was filmed on the Dutch tilt and then tilted up to reveal the trees surrounding the school. We used this because in many horror films they set their films in or around a forest; it also gives the impression that the school is isolated and that even if you do get out, there is not where for you to escape to.

For the rest of the lesson, I edited the reminder of the trailer together. For the slower scenes where we build up tension; I added a heartbeat sound effect that has increased bass effect applied to it. This was used to give these scenes a more of a professional edge and make the audience wonder whose heart is beating. In addition, for the scene where we see the killer walking down a corridor, I added a bang sound effect as the camera reaches the doors and we have a polarisation. I used this again to add a more professional edge to the scene and also make the audience jump at this sudden loud noise. I then added some polarisations after and in between some scenes that were in slow motion. I chose to do this because; we needed to incorporate some more of the typical conventions that can be found in a high school horror trailer.

The main problem that we faced today was that we had to change the character of Gene Taylor (the teacher) to a woman (now called Jean Taylor). The reason for this drastic change is because we did not have the time to find a male actor to portray this character, meaning we had to use our friend Cory to play this part. However, we decided not film her face; this was because during the scenes that involve Jean, she is not the main focus of the shot. It’s actually her book. So by cutting her face off, it draws attention towards the book and makes the audience question why this book is so important? Moreover, the sex of this key character is not important the audience will still be able to speculate that Jean is the killer as we never see the killers face and create a level of mystery about her.