Feedback on our trailer so far...

After uploading our trailer a week ago to YouTube and to our Blogger page, we have received a few comments already telling us what the like and think we could have done better.

Here are the comments...

Above is a screen shot from my facebook page in which I put a link to our trailer on and asked people to comment on it. We had two comments back both with positive comments. They both said it would be a film they would want to see and said that it was very atmospheric.

Uploading our trailer to YouTube

Today we watched our trailer through again and showed our lecturer again to check that everything was right and there were no more tweaks hat had to be made. Everything was how we wanted and our lecturer was really happy with the trailer we went ahead and uploaded it to YouTube.

We first had to create an account on YouTube, which was easy enough, and then from iMovie we uploaded it to YouTube from the 'share' toolbar. This is a screen shot to show our trailer on YouTube.

The next step is to share the YouTube link on our Facebook pages and share the link to our blog to get comments from other people. This is to get feedback from other people to see what they like about it and what they don't like about it. Doing this, it will help us with writing our evaluation because we can talk about about what we would change if we were to do it again.

Below is a screen shot showing that I have posted a link on Twitter to try and get people to check out our trailer on YouTube. Hopefully people will see this and comment on it.

A2 Media Horror Trailer - The Finished product

Precision editing

Today we finished editing the sound. We found a clip on www.freesound.org of footsteps on gravel which we thought would sound good for the clip of the padlock on the door.

Once we thought that our trailer was nearly there we asked our lecturer to watch it through and give us his thoughts. He said that we needed to add in a fade to black transition before the first text clip and another before the second text clip. He thought this would make it look more coherent and run smoother. He also thought that the ambient music we had used throughout was effective and thought we should use that same sound on a bit of the clip towards the end, as there was no music at this point.

We also managed to change the font for the title of our film in the trailer to the font we downloaded. Originally we couldn't get this to work on the iMovie software but our teacher found a way to help us out. We now have a signature font for our movie which can be used on the movie poster as well. This is a screen shot to show the font we have used in the editor of the iMovie software.

Once we made the changes our lecturer suggested we watched it through again and it seemed to run a lot smoother and we are all really pleased with it, including our teacher.

Our next step is to upload it to YouTube and Facebook and get feedback from people on; what they think could be changed, what they like about it and whether they would go and see the film or not. We can also start work on the movie poster and magazine cover to go with the trailer.

Editing sound for our trailer

We have been looking at the sound for our trailer because the actual sound that was recorded isn't all suitable for the trailer as there is talking and laughs which wouldn't fit the narrative and doesn't look professional.

We went onto a free download site (www.freesound.org) for music and found a scary ambient noise that sounded good for the when the camera pans around the forest and the clips which show text. It gives the clip an eery feel. We also added in an owl noise to the forest scene as it again gives the feel of a deserted place.

We found a couple of screams which we wanted to put over the last clip of the trailer when you see the people running away as the scream that was recorded wasn't very realistic. However, the scream is of only one person so we had to try and overlap the same clip twice to make it sound like more than one person is screaming.

We just need to add in some sound for the credits so the audience knows straight away that the trailer is going to be a horror.

This is a screenshot of the editing process in iMovie, showing the sound clips we have uploaded to scenes in the trailer.