How we edited our horror trailer 'Followed'

1. Editing ‘Followed’

2. Uploading our footage
After filming our clips
for the trailer, we
upload all of them to
iMovie and began the
process of going
through choosing
which bits of footage
we wanted to include
in the trailer. This is
was a lengthy process
as we had over 2
hours of footage in
total; but was
essential in order to
create the best trailer
possible.

3. Editing our footage
Here we trimmed down the clips we had
filmed, this took time as we needed to be
very accurate and precise to ensure clips
matched up correctly in order for the
trailer to have the right effect on its
audience.
We used clips from the YouTube
(with permission for the
creators) in order to get the
‘camera recording’ effect to add
to our trailer. We searched
around on YouTube thoroughly
as it needed to match our other
clips. We couldn’t find exactly
what we needed, so once the
original was added to our blog
we then went on to edit the
colour of the clips and add text
to end up with the aged
recorded camera clip.

4. We used different effects on the clips to achieve a certain look to specific parts of the trailer. For
example on the footage which supposed to be filmed in 2000 we added an effect called ‘film grain’. This
aged the films slightly, although not too much as it was only 12 years previous and made it easier for
the audience to understand the difference in time periods when watching the trailer. In hearing our
audience feed back with the finished result of the trailer, we noted that they picked this out as a good
use of colour effects and helped the story to make sense.

5. Editing our footage
Once we had put our clips together and had a rough cut of the footage in its correct order we were
able to search for music to add to the trailer. This screen shot shows us editing a the main soundtrack
of the whole trailer using ‘clip trimmer’.

6. Sound effects and music
It was a lengthy process for us to find the correct and most effect sound clips and music for the trailer. These are two key elements of
trailers, horror ones in particular. They create certain atmospheres to the trailer and build tension and suspense, with this in mind we
knew we needed to find the ‘perfect’ music and sound effects for our clips. We needed to consider a number of things when
researching looking for our sound effects:
(YouTube was used in finding both Music and Sound effects)
-Copyright (if we were allowed to use the clips or needed to seek permission etc)
-The length of clips/ Volume of sounds
-If they fitted the style and atmosphere for the trailer correctly.
After taking these in to consideration we were able to find a number of useful clips on YouTube, which we then converted using
‘http://www.flvto.com/’and added to our trailer.
Here listed are some of the sound effects we used:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPJ1uQwmNHk : Female Screams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOs3xQYBlM: Horror sound effects (Bangs, crashes etc)

7. Finishing off the trailer.
To finish the trailer we added a credits page and the
symbol for our trailer; both of these were created on
iMovie by creating a ‘new project’ and using the effects
found on these. We found through our research into
horror trailers, particularly found footage ones that this is
something that featured at the end of the most of the
trailers so therefore we added this to ours.