25th August, 2016
We began our second class by jumping straight into working on our trailers. My group has decided to choose another film, because none of us were unable to download Finding Dory. We agreed to stick with the Disney theme and decided that Aladdin would be an interesting movie to genre-bend.
While transferring the movie file from Charlotte's laptop to one of the school iMacs, we started taking note of which scenes in the movie we could use in our trailer. Ms. Ward reminded us that we should keep the scenes short in order to prevent giving too much information away and spoiling the movie. All four of us contributed to the discussion, and we worked quite efficiently, with Charlotte finding scenes in the movie, then all four of us deciding whether it would be a good scene to use, and last but not least, me taking note of the scene timings. Throughout the lesson, I was open-minded to each others' ideas, but I think I have to work on communicating more with my teammates and expressing more of my ideas. After importing the movie onto FinalCut Pro, we took out the snippets we needed and dragged them into our timeline. We chose some peaceful scenes as well as some exciting / thrilling scenes. Next lesson, we will need to start putting them in our desired order, find suitable music to help change the atmosphere of the trailer, and edit in blackouts & text / alter (eg. slow motion) or cut out unnecessary scenes & sounds to complete our 1-minute trailer.
We also watched a few horror film trailers to find some inspiration for our trailer. I noticed that in two of the trailers (Ouija: Origin of Evil / The Boy) we watched, the trailers both started off with a happy tone to it, where everything seems normal and peaceful, but then the music changes and the atmosphere turns creepy, building up to the climax of the movie. Snippets of the protagonist facing the source of fear in the movie (most likely the most exciting / noteworthy parts of the film) are shown, and sudden spikes in audio volume / blackouts are used to help provoke fear and build tension. The trailers then finish with an unexpected / sudden ending, in order to leave the audience in suspense and bring out their urge to go watch the movie. Towards the end of the lesson, we decided that changing Aladdin into a thriller movie would be more suitable than horror after we have picked out the scenes we wanted.
We have one lesson left to edit, and I hope that during the weekends, I can do some more research into genre-bending and get some inspiration from watching more thriller trailers, and perhaps start finding some royalty free music that is suitable for our trailer.
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