We have now finished filming all the scenes for our trailer and have started the editing process, this involves getting all the individual videos into one program (Imovie) and putting them into the arranged sequence that we had drawn up in our screenshots previously. After we had decided this we then made up the times for all our shots were right, we had to use one camera to make our film and when we had the main girl walking through the school we had to stop and start and turn it into one continuous movement.
We have added video effects and transitions to all of videos and have effects such as "fades In's" and "Fades Out" and alot of cut shots.
When we were editing our film we noticed we had the camera wobbling at the start, so we had to cut it out using the cutting tool and refocus the shot, or also do this when someone shouts actions. There are only some scenes in our film which have the original sound and we have muted the music in other scenes so the music we had recorded really comes into play and makes the film quite scary and edgy throughout.
Throughout our trailer there is a voice over, in which i went to the studio to record the lead girl talk over her actions in the trailer, i thought this would be effective as it is stereotypical of the horror genre to have a dramatic voice over and to have a girl annotate over the top. we have made it sound like the girl is still missing or if she has been killed. When we finished the film we exported it in HD and gave the audio 5.1 Dolby surround sound.
The film now completed, the structure of the film starts with the warning screen and with the company logo at the beginning, there is then a shot which clearly identifies the setting to the audience, it is the forecourt of the school which then cuts to the scene of the characters walking down a flight of stairs having a conversation with each other at the end of this scene the two male characters walk off and the camera cuts to the girl walking past the camera with and walking through a door and up another flight of stairs. This all happens in one continuous and swift move without any jumps. There is then a cut with a few transitions to the girl researching her last lesson in the library, the camera then cuts to the girl in her room on a computer having a look on the internet about the history of her school, she then finds a page on the internet that shocks her and using the audio editing software we have enhanced the gasp she lefts out when she realises something is wrong. The movie then cuts to the girl in the toilets then she is washing her hands and she notices that all the taps have turned themselves on and we get a reaction shot then the hand dryers come on the there own and the lights then turn off. The whole scene is well timed as there is two sets of lights to turn off, one set goes off and she looks up then another set go and she is left in complete darkness.
Ending Credits
I have begun the production on the ending credits, I have created these on imovie on the apple mac's at home, i have added them to the end of the movie where the girl is found in an industrial looking room with appliance's around her. The film title absence fades up up into the view of the audience and everything fades out to black and "October 2011" and the tagline "This one wont go on your record" the website name also comes onto the screen. these end credits are accompanied with music, with is quite sinister and build suspense towards the end, These sounds are like screams and a long gasp. The music we created using the mac software "Logic Pro 8", we imported the film audio and video into logic and effects the original audio to make it stand out more, after we were happy with what had been produced, we started to make the music this started very slow to build up suspense and the got fast towards the end, with the bass drum acting as a heart beat. we added Reverb and Delay on top of the original footage to make it more atmospheric and make the music suit the horror/thriller genre.
Here is the logic pro software, that the music for our film was constructed on, i have included pictures so you can see the individual tracks that we have used we used over 25 tracks. these included rattling chains and screams with heart beats sounds. also in logic we enhanced the sound on our film so the vocals are easily heard throughout. you can see that we have used track automation on our music these is an easy way to make music fade on and fade in, or to make the sound completely stop at certain points, this also can make sounds louder than ours and some quieter than ours. In the second picture you can see where some on the coloured tracks are white, this means that we have muted them. the top line is the vocal line of the trailer, this is where we didnt want any sound or unwanted noise so we muted it and added music over the top.
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