Finshed A Level Horror Trailer, improvements:

Finished A level horror trailer:

We looked at a range of past A2 trailers, and chose one to cut down and improve into a teaser trailer. Cutting out clips we deemed unnecessary, making it around one minute long.

Previously I have done research on teaser trailers, and found that common features include adding mystery, therefore not showing footage that gives the events away and being very short, to 'tease' the audience and create suspense. During this practical we tried to channel this and used our previous research to our advantage.

I was involved in a lot of cutting down of the footage, ensuring the excess minutes were taken off and any irrelevant details were removed. Firstly I removed about ten seconds of the ending, due to it being irrelevant and also seeming to drag on for too long.

Here I was deleting more footage that was not needed.

I used the blade tool to cut up each section individually so we could easily work well with the footage, move it around and delete the excess.

Within this production there were many elongated scenes of the couple walking, seemingly to be unnecessary, therefore I decided to remove these.

The title screen was very effective, however dragged for too long. So I cut this down. Later as a group we decided to rearrange and cut scenes as well as adding new non diegetic soundtrack, similar to the old but to make it run smoother.

The original:

Our re edit:

Conclusion:

• Overall I believe that our re edit did look more appropriate, since unnecessary scenes were removed and the trailer as a whole was cut down leaving the good and effective shots behind.
• Although this is the case some aspects of our reedit did not flow well. We moved some scenes around and had them flash in on screen, however at times this seemed to look out of place.
• As well as this we also let some scenes drag onto long, if done again we would cut it down further and ensure it flows to a better standard.