Teaser Trailer Editing.

Teaser Trailer Editing

One of the most important bits of our trailer is the end, we subverted Todorov's Narrative Theory by starting in equilibrium and ending in disequilibrium. Therefore our final scene needed to grab and scare the audience, it needed to be unexpected. We decided on having Millie Mae scene as our final one. We had a 5.5 second long clip and were unsure whether to keep it long or cut it short, almost like a jump cut.

We edited the scene by changing it to a green filter making it look like it was in night vision, this was reinforced by using a torch when filming to add a two toned effect.

We inserted a blank text slide between a title slide and edited clip. We then made the screen black for 0.4 seconds to give the audience a sense of calm to think that the trailer had ended before the disequilibrium of the scream.

 We also decided to divide the clip and mute the first half and placed a heavy breathing recording over it to create suspense as the camera moved jerkily around the room and then reached our villain.