Final Cut of our Teaser Trailer

Rough Cut Analysis

The rough cut is the first edited version of out teaser trailer. It is there so that we can analyze the original cut, and decide what parts of the edit we like, and what parts of the trailer we feel should either be changed, or left out.

I will start with what i disliked about the trailer. There were a couple of things that I disliked about the first edit. The first of these was the sound. It was clear that we had not spent enough time working on making the sounds sharper and making sure that there were less ambient sounds in the piece. For example, at the begging of the trailer you can hear a direction being given to an actor, which will need to be sorted out, and you can also hear a plain in one shot, and then no plane in another. Another addition that needs to be made to the piece is a soundtrack, which will be used to build suspense to the scene, and make the cinematography seem smoother. The whole piece will be easier on the eye for the audience with a decent soundtrack in place.

However, despite these negative points there are also a few positives to feed off. The first of these is the sharpness of the editing from shot to shot. My personal feelings are that the cuts have been done to near perfection, and that we have captured what we were aiming for in this department. From watching the piece over and over again, I have not yet seen an uncomfortable cut, or a forced cut which doesn't seem right. Another part of the first edit that I like is the use of black and white in the flash backs. I feel this distinguishes them apart as flashbacks, compared to the corridor scene being the present.

Overall I feel that the trailer is a decent one, however there is still a way to go before it is finished and ready to be used.

Post Production - Editing

Throughout the Post Production stage we had one main objective as a group. This was to make our product as interesting, teasing, and persuasive as possible. In order to do this we had to get the editing as good as possible, make the sound as effective as possible and ensure that all the mistakes we came across, were quickly solved, sufficiently and as a team.

Because I was the director in the film, giving me a large role to play in the pre-production stage, i was given the role of helping the editor, and other smaller side roles. Before we got to the post production stage, and started to complete our editing, we gave every person in the group roles that they would play in the post production stage, to ensure that we were all organised and knew exactly what was needed of each of us.

The first and most vital part of the post production stage is the editing, which Tom was given the role to be in charge of. We sat down as a group and watched all of the film, and then with Tom, we edited the piece. Because we had the use of flash backs in our product, we wanted to make it obvious that they were separate to the corridor scene, and so we decided to make them black and white. We also decided as a group that it would be a good idea to put a strobe in towards the end of the piece, as this would create a feeling of tension, and fear for the audience.

After we had done all of the effects, such as the strobe, and made all of the cuts integrate smoothly, we focused on the sound. Because we wanted to create tension throughout the product, we wanted to add an eerie soundtrack, which we did. Luckily we found one which seemed to slide straight into the already edited piece perfectly, and so we added this to the piece, and made it just quiet enough to be able to hear the dialogue over the top. We also made sure that we got the music from a non-copyright site, incompetech.com, which allowed us to use the music without having to gain permission from the maker of the piece.

The last vital part to the post production process was the feedback, which we made absolutely sure we completed with enough time to slightly change the product to suit the audience better. We did this by completing a questionnaire, and making people watch our piece, and then fill it out. From the results, we then generalised our results, and noticed the general trends in the answers, and from these, adapted our piece suitably.