Rough Cut

We have been working away on editing our film and have been making some great progress. Here is the link to the rough cut of our trailer. We like the opening clip of our lead in the torture chair, because it immediately draws in the audience and adheres to thriller conventions. However, we are not so keen on the music, because we don't feel it fits in with the mood of our trailer, as it is up beat and our trailer is supposed to be haunting and dark, so are thinking of changing this when we next edit.

Editing Process

We want our trailer to be fast paced and exciting therefore we will use some of the best bits of the film to attract our target audience and highlight the most engrossing moments without giving away the plot. In the film our lead character Tom Banks undertakes a series of trails and challenges before the final scene where all is revealed. In our trailer we will include footage from these key moments. For example we are going to use the scene where the USB arrives in the post, we will include zoomed in shots of Tom's letter box where an anonymousletter containing the USB will arrive, this shot will leave the audience wondering what is inside this letter. The trailer will also show images of the 'torture chamber' in which Tom finds images of on the USB he receives in the post, we are either going to use photograph stills or actual video camera footage of this room along with slow and tense music. This will leave the audience wondering what this strange dark room is and what is going to take place in this room,encouraging them to want to see the film. We have decided to show this scene using CCTV footage and it will be full of glitches and will be distorted in black and white. Another scene that we will show in our trailer is the scene where Tom and his new friend Bryan attempt to destroy the body which Tom has killed. This scene will show the two men making friends and then Bryan and Tom disposing the body usingsulfuric acid. The body in this scene will be wrapped up so the audience will have no idea of the identity if this body or why they are destroying it. The next clip that will be included in our trailer is from the scene in which Tom meets Tracheal,the sister of the man he has killed. We will see Tom turning up at her house and introducing himself, as well as a clip of them falling for each other. The audience however will not know this girl is the sister of the innocent man Tom murdered so will be asking questions about their relationship.

Ancillary product-poster

I am very pleased with this final product and think that it fits in very well with our other ancillary products and main task. We used Photoshop to edit the image and a Canon EOS 600D to snap the shot. The film title on our poster was written in bold black writing with a red wash around the words, this proved successful as created a spooky horror-like theme, almost producing blood connotations and appealing to our target audience.

  Our skills in Photoshop have developed considerably since AS, and the tools we used were: crop, clone tool, merge, cropping, manipulating colours, levels and curves (adjust lighting) colour editing including ‘red wash’, hue and saturation, levels, hardware (A2 - PC), jerky style font- gave poster an edge.

The screen behind Declan's head on our poster is shining bright white, which we emphasized in photoshop, this immediately stands out and creates super natural images, as computer screens are never just completely blank and glowing like that- these super natural connotations appeal to our target audience and adhere to the thriller genre.

The words 'Coming' written in red in combination with the black words suggests horror almost suggesting it is 'coming' for you.We shot this image as night so that it was completely dark outside, this again suggests horror and fear as well as making the computer screen stand out, as this is key in our film.