Camera Angles:

Different types of camera angles are important whilst shooting footage for a movie trailer. During our film we used a tripod for every shot apart from the shot where the female protagonist is running to the car. We have used a tripod so that all the shots are steady as this would then make the clips look a lot better where they could be bad if they were not on a tripod. We have used high and low angle shots in the film as this shows authority and power for both the protagonists and antagonists. We have used a high angle shot of the two protagonists on the sofa as they are the target and this shows that they are in danger. Throughout the film we have shown low angle shots looking up at either the antagonist or friends of the protagonists, this shows that they are in danger. Also throughout the trailer I have used a variety of medium close ups and long shots of the characters in the film.

Editing

For our movie trailer we decided that it should start off a medium pace due to the genre being a horror, this is how most horror films like to approach for there movie trailers. After doing research i thought that it would be good to relate my pace of the trailer to the freytags pyramid which has exposition, which is where it starts off slow, then to rising action, which is where the music and pace begins to fasten, Climax, which is the main part where it is aimed for horror fans to give them a glimpse of scary part of the film. After this it dies down with falling action and then it goes to a denouement which is where the pace goes slow and dies down.

Throughout the trailer i used six captions with one of them being the title page. The captions we have put in the trailer are made to make the target audience get the storyline and feel that they want to see the film. Whilst editing we had to make sure that the music timing is right this is a step we took a long on sorting out to make perfect. We used effects like fade out and black and white editing to make the music feel right for the trailer.

Music:

For the music in the trailer we searched videos and songs on the internet and we found a music soundtrack which worked perfectly with our pace of videos and I feel this is good. We decided to choose a horror style which represents well. This is because when the fast pace of the trailer comes the music keeps up with it and also when it gets to a climax the soundtrack follows this.

Dialogue:
For our trailer we did not use much dialogue as we chose to use captions and tense music to set the trailer out for us. We feel that this didnt need much dialogue but the only bit of dialogue in the film we did was the female protagonist saying " yh the powers back on,come over." We felt that with little text this would portray a scary theme and this would I feel not give away a lot of information.

Sound effects

In our trailer we used a couple of sound effects which I feel make this sound good. We used a scary bang to get the target audience scared after 20 seconds which was unexpected and i feel that this is good and this is were the rising action begins. The next type of sound effect we used was a twitch effect this I feel was a really good effect as when this happened at the same time the screen would jolt to make it look scary. We also use this again towards the end of the trailer. Our final sound effect we use is at the end when the protagonist gets dragged down the hallway screaming.

Setting :
All of the footage for the film was filmed at my house. Shots were involved in the bathroom, kitchen, back garden, front garden, outside and living room. This is where we intended to do all of our movie to be filmed at as we feel this was different to horror trailers where they are normally filmed in the forest or a haunted house. We filmed it in a typical modern day house as we feel that our target audience would get scared as they would believe that perhaps if it happens to someone living in a normal house instead of getting killed in a forest as a horror, they feel that this might happen to them.

Mise-En-Scene:
The Mise-en-scene is very important for creating our trailer. The clothing is a big part as this can separate someone being scary to someone being not scary. The clothing of the main antagonist was-black trousers,black trainers black jacket and a white mask for it to stick out. This would separate it a lot as you would be able to tell the difference from this and a normal character. The other characters are wearing clothes which you would if your going out or having friends round, this is jeans, t shirt for the male actors and leggings and shirt for the female actor.