Editing Session 9

Me, Amber and Kayleigh went back after school today to continue editing our film trailer. We wanted to concentrate on colour matching the shots because from my research low key lighting is a convention in pyschological horrors so changing some of the shots that have bright colours to darker colours connotates mystery and death. In the images below we colour matched the lighter scenes with camera shots which were filmed either in dark rooms or at night time.

We watched the trailer to check for any errors, and I noticed there was a lot of unwanted diegetic sound, so we all took turns in detaching the audio for the footage and deleting it, however we kept the diegetic dialogue which was mainly at the start before the disruption of equilbrium. Apart from diegetic dialogue, loud banging and sinister sounds were kept in the trailer as this is a convention of horror to have diegetic sounds which convey death.

Also we decided we should have more transitions featuring text apart from the quote we are using in the film trailer, so Kayleigh suggested using "Based on True Events" and I said this should go near the beginning as this is a convention of horror film trailers. Also the statement "Based on True Events" does apply because I have completed research into true stories and existing films which follow the same principle.

Lastly we used some transitions in the film trailer, and from my research and also my knowledge from watching horror films trailers and horror films themselves, fade transitions are very common especially near the beginning as this shows that the situation is calm and undisrupted. I placed some transitions near the beginning, so did Amber and Kayleigh. However we didn't place fade transitions between every shot as some shots are very short and this looked very unprofessional and also this would interrupt the continuity of some shots.