This is our final trailer, Cyberspace! I am quite happy with the outcome as it does look scary and it gives off the spooky feel that I think we all hoped for! However, in the black cut outs we added text using a programme called Live Type in which we could make the text appear on the screen how we wanted it to. We had it as though it was being typed but it hasn’t worked. This was one of my favourite effects in our trailer as I think it fitted perfectly with the connotations and the story of our film.
To make our trailer we had to change many of the clips we had already filmed. We had to cut majority of the scenes to just being seconds long as what we had filmed didn’t give the right effect we where looking for, they didn’t create an atmosphere with snappy and an edgy suspense. To begin with we had our trailer with all the events of the film in sequence. We received some criticism so we jumbled the scenes around making it more of a taster rather than it being a short film.
The program we used to make our trailer was called IMovie. This enabled us to shorten scenes, add music and pre-logged sounds, and font and also change the lighting and brightness in our trailer. We made the outside scenes darker to make it seem scarier and more mysterious than it would have been with the bright light. We used some of the pre-loaded sound effects from IMovie into our trailer helping us to give that finishing touch to our scenes. We searched some websites called Sound Jay and Partners in Rhyme to help us find the perfect sounds for our trailer. In the beginning scene when our main character ‘Charlie’ is walking through the underpass we added footstep sounds to make the viewer feel as though she is alone vulnerable and scared. For other scenes like where our title ‘Cyberspace’ is supposed to appear we added computer like sounds giving an eerie, almost out of space feel to our film. In our trailer we included a voiceover to give more information to the audience about what our film is based on. It lets the audience know that ‘Charlie’ has gone missing in a radio report kind of voice. This makes it seem more life like and means the audience can relate to the film. We also added in the images that we had taken previously to break up the clips and give the audience a mysterious and almost intrigued feeling towards our trailer.
When we showed our trailer to a group of people the main comments where that we had used sound very well, by not over doing it but adding enough to give our trailer a scarier effect. They also said we used a decent range of different and interesting camera angles, from tracking, to long shots, to tilting the camera slightly as Charlie ran up the stairs. Some of the people we showed it to said that they really liked how we kept the killer a secret as it made them want to find out who the killer is. However the focal criticism that we got about our trailer was that it was too short, which we had already found an issue after we had to cut the long scenes. We felt as though we couldn’t add any more clips into our trailer otherwise our plot would be given away to easily. By lengthening the original clips we had cut down would have destroyed the whole effect of it being short, snappy and memorable.
My favorite clip in our trailer is the last one where we have a random man standing at the end of the tunnel with his hands in his pockets. I love the emptiness of the tunnel and will hopefully make the audience feel vulnerable and scared.
To make our trailer we had to change many of the clips we had already filmed. We had to cut majority of the scenes to just being seconds long as what we had filmed didn’t give the right effect we where looking for, they didn’t create an atmosphere with snappy and an edgy suspense. To begin with we had our trailer with all the events of the film in sequence. We received some criticism so we jumbled the scenes around making it more of a taster rather than it being a short film.
The program we used to make our trailer was called IMovie. This enabled us to shorten scenes, add music and pre-logged sounds, and font and also change the lighting and brightness in our trailer. We made the outside scenes darker to make it seem scarier and more mysterious than it would have been with the bright light. We used some of the pre-loaded sound effects from IMovie into our trailer helping us to give that finishing touch to our scenes. We searched some websites called Sound Jay and Partners in Rhyme to help us find the perfect sounds for our trailer. In the beginning scene when our main character ‘Charlie’ is walking through the underpass we added footstep sounds to make the viewer feel as though she is alone vulnerable and scared. For other scenes like where our title ‘Cyberspace’ is supposed to appear we added computer like sounds giving an eerie, almost out of space feel to our film. In our trailer we included a voiceover to give more information to the audience about what our film is based on. It lets the audience know that ‘Charlie’ has gone missing in a radio report kind of voice. This makes it seem more life like and means the audience can relate to the film. We also added in the images that we had taken previously to break up the clips and give the audience a mysterious and almost intrigued feeling towards our trailer.
When we showed our trailer to a group of people the main comments where that we had used sound very well, by not over doing it but adding enough to give our trailer a scarier effect. They also said we used a decent range of different and interesting camera angles, from tracking, to long shots, to tilting the camera slightly as Charlie ran up the stairs. Some of the people we showed it to said that they really liked how we kept the killer a secret as it made them want to find out who the killer is. However the focal criticism that we got about our trailer was that it was too short, which we had already found an issue after we had to cut the long scenes. We felt as though we couldn’t add any more clips into our trailer otherwise our plot would be given away to easily. By lengthening the original clips we had cut down would have destroyed the whole effect of it being short, snappy and memorable.
My favorite clip in our trailer is the last one where we have a random man standing at the end of the tunnel with his hands in his pockets. I love the emptiness of the tunnel and will hopefully make the audience feel vulnerable and scared.
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