Emily discusses her process for creating a film trailer. She began by editing the song she selected to replicate the style of music in trailers she researched. She then conducted a two-day shoot, but struggled with lighting issues on the first day. The second shoot day went better, though it was sunny rather than dark. Emily edited the trailer on Premiere Pro and designed graphics like a logo and title screen to look professional. Her goal was to make the trailer look and feel like a real film.

1. PRODUCTION REFLECTION
Emily wood

2. PROCESS
I started off my
production process by
editing the song I wanted
to use for my trailer, I used
adobe audition to do this I
wanted to replicate some
of music I heard in the
trailers I researched , in
those trailers the music
helped tell the story, it was
normal in the begging and
then when the inciting
incident happens the
music drops and becomes
more eerie, I wanted to
replicate this in my own
trailer so I decide to try to
isolate the vocals of the
first verse

3. PROCESS
Then I started the main shoot, I
decided to do this over two days,
I would have like to do more
shoot days but It was difficult to
get everyone I needed available
on the same days, the first day we
shot I wanted to do an evening
shoot, I want to use the darkness
to create a feeling of unease,
however the clips didn’t turn out
exactly how I wanted them to,
they had a lot of visual noise on
them as I didn’t have access to
good enough light for some of
the shots. I think if I had shot on
an over cast day and edited it
then it would have looked better.
However I do like how some of
the clips came out.

4. PROCESS
• I did the whole shoot handheld, when I shot my test shots I used a tripod
and I felt like there was disconnect between the characters and the
audience, I felt the handheld approach allowed me to get close to the actor
which hopefully helps the audience feel apart of the story.
• I wanted to stick to a certain colour palette, I tried to keep it cool toned to
add to the atmosphere of the film.
• In the first part of the trailer I edited it to have no frame like the rest of it
because I wanted to have a clear disconnect between them, the normal life
and the horror life.

5. PROCESS
Shoot day 2 , went well
however It was quite sunny
which is not really what I
wanted it to look like but I
tried my best to shoot away
from the sun so it was easier
to edit it darker, I managed
to get all the shots I wanted.
We also shot inside a bit and
I am happy with how those
turned out. I wish I had shot
more b roll/ shots of the
characters daily life to make
the first part of the trailer
into more of a story.

6. PROCESS
I wanted to recreate the
graphics used in actual film
trailers so used the presets on
premiere pro to create a logo
for a fake production company,
I wanted an interesting font so I
went on website called da font
to choose a font I liked and
downloaded it.
I did a similar thing for the tile
screen, I want to stick to a
colour scheme with this so It
looked cohesive.

7. PROCESS
the overall editing process
was good, I struggled to get
the lighting better I couldn’t
figure out how to do wanted
to do.
I wanted to make the trailer
look as real as possible so I
did some simple fx makeup
on the actors and I made my
own fake blood.