Re-shoot/ Re-edit

Our group did not re-shoot anything, however we did re-edit a lot of our film trailer to make it more effective. We was lucky enough not to have to re-shoot as all of our shots first time were exactly what we wanted, it did have to take a fair few times to take when taking the shot, as something small as someone else in the shot who wasn't serposed to be there or the camera being at the wrong angle. Therefore we would re-take the shot there and then, to get a better effect for example different camera angle. Because we didn't have to re-shoot anything it gave us a lot longer to re-edit what we had to, as we had a few things we wanted to change t make it look more profestional and it is the most important process within the media. We did however have to re-edit our trailer, primarily due to audience feedback, we re-edited 5 parts of the trailer all together.
These were the most important changes we had to make when re-editing our trailer;

1) The first piece we had to re-edit was the lab shot, this is where the boy walks through the cass room, trips over someones foot, then acid spills on him, then the camera stares at an empty beaker which contained the acid then it fades. However when we edited the scene it is not in chronological order, it starts with a shot of the spilled acid that was in the beaker, this gives the audience more suspence and make the viewer understand what the scene is about. Then it is followed by the boy walking before he gets tripped up, we cut back to the beaker then the boy being tripped, back to the beaker, then the liquid spilling on him. Te finally of the beaker and fades out slowly to give a dramatic effect and know something bads now going to happen. Whilst this flas back is taking place there is talking of the protagonist and phsychologist. We also spead up this clip and gave it more panicky and put an audio track behind all of it whic is creepy.

2) The second part of editing we did was again in the same flashback, it was simple and very effective. When we first of all had the fade away from the beaker at the end of the flash back, we decided to put a ghost image of the boy with a burnt face on the top which becomes clearer on the screen as it gets darker. We decided to do this to make it clear to the audience whats just happened to the boy and make the trailer creepier. This as done by stretching and cuttng the scene with the close up face to make it a slow frame. This was then put on another video track making it the main image. We made the opacity roughly 40% thismade the beaker look like the main image and made the face look like a ghostly image.

3) The next piece of editing was the gravestone moving away from the flashback shots. This is when the killer/boy appears in front of the tombstone. The first shot is just of the tombstone on its own by a church, then the boy appears next to it looking right into the camera. We made the transition smother with a crossfade to make it look a ghostly appearence. We also had to speed this shot up to fit in with the pace of the rest of the editing as it fits in just when the protagonist is running saying "its here" it also had to fit in with our auido track. Where as before it was too slow and looked all abit messy. Therefore all we did was add a crossfade between scenes and use the stretch tool to shorten the shot.

4) The forth piece of editing was the final after the credit. This is when the killer comes towards the camera unexpectably. This is to make the audience jump and not expect this shot because its after a fadeout and all the sounds/audios stop. Then suddenly the viewer sees the killers face appear. This was initally backwards and not startling to make his movements look more unnatural we then sped the scene up to a second so that when is is seen it is almost sublminal. Also it is so the viewer doesn't have time to make out the figure of the person which is typical of most horror trailers, there is always that horrible yet quick image that mostly sticks in the audience mind. This is so it is creepier and more shocking.

5) The final piece we re-editied was the audio track. We had to make the audio more effective and fit in within our trailer. In order to make this most effective we cut the first section of the sound, we slowed it down whilst the psychologist was speaking to the protagonist this is to make it creepy and understand what they are talking about without too much rushing around because it wouldn't have fitted within that shot of the slow flash back and talking. To finish this section of editing we added an exponential fade at the end of the audio track to give the trailer a fade out as opposed to an abrupt and quick end. This therefore made the whole trailer look a lot smoother and fit well together.