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Our horror movie trailer

30/11/20

 Firstly in class we watched the trailer for 'A quiet place'. We studied the trailer and noted down some things such as the camera work, music etc to see how it makes it a successful horror movie trailer. We were then told we were going to create a trailer such as the one used for 'A quiet place'. We were first instructed to go into groups, I went with Nancy and Ruby. Then we were given cameras to use when filming our trailer. We were free to roam around the school grounds and take shots to put in our trailer. 

We first went into the tunnels as it was the perfect place for a horror movie setting as it was very dark and dingy. Our first shot we took was of this door in the tunnel. Someone had accidently put red paint on the wall with their hands so it looked like blood which was perfect. We took a few more shots in the tunnel then moved up to the triangle where we took a few shots there. We went into the trees where we took some shots of us running through them with not much time to see who it was so it added mystery. When we arrived back in the media room we were worried we didn't film enough and that the trailer would be shorter than 45 seconds, it turns out that our trailer was much longer than 45 seconds and was in fact almost 2 minutes! We put all our shots together and started the editing on Wednesday.

2/12/20

On Wednesday we started work on the editing. We decided to do the trailer on the movie template and not the trailer template as we thought that it would give us more creative freedom. We started with cutting down some of the shots we took as some of them dragged on for a little long and cutting them a down a bit may add some dramatic effect. Secondly we added the music, from the large library of music we chose some horror based instruments and stretched it out a long the movie. Next we added some text, so far we have only added a few text scenes but we hope to add more.