Final Sound

Choosing the right music was essentially the make or break point for our main product. Initially, we were set on asking a composer to create the music, which would be completely parallel to onscreen images, but within the short time frame we had, we decided it would be difficult and we worried about relying on an alternate mind to capture exactly what we wanted.

We spent a very long time on YouTube searching for 'horror' or 'suspense' themed tracks, hoping we could use a collaboration of many uncopyrighted sounds. However, as our trailer changed pace towards the start and had very precise shot timings, merging tracks together was not an option as it would be near impossible to merge two tracks to fit with the different pace, but still work together.

Eventually, we came across this track http://www.youtube.com/watchv=TjBzWR4ihM4&feature=watch_response_rev.

We found it fitted superbly and even changed pace at the right points. We had to swap a few shots within our trailer to fit the sound in perfectly, but in the end it worked in our favour. We also had to fade the music out at the end and build up the 'bang' with more sounds, most found on GarageBand.

NA

Editing

We have now managed to edit the footage we have so it will be much easier to slot in the rest of the trailer once we've filmed some more. Below is the edited footage we do have:

We found ourselves to be quite lucky as our filming went so well and we got so much footage, there wasn't too much to edit. We did spend a lot of time, however, finding the 'impact shots' and the best shots to put in, which involved a lot of splitting and cropping. Our teaser trailer will be very fast-paced and so we sped-up a lot of shots, for example so that we only have a flash of Emily's face. The only thing we have yet to do with these shots is maybe colour alterations, which we don't feel we can do until the end so everything is more or less the same throughout.

The music also is clearly incomplete, but again we can't do that until everything is put together. The drone at the beginning is just something we found on iMovie but is the type of sound we want at the start of the trailer with the establishing shots and the shots of our protagonist walking into the house. The sound at the end is not final but we definitely want something like this to end the trailer.

The typography, though decided, has yet to be added in also.