Editing the Preliminary Task

We have begun to edit our preliminary task. We spent the first part of our time watching the footage that we have been able to film to see as to whether any of it was particularly exciting or would enhance the mood that we were wanting to create.
After we had looked through the footage we began to try and edit it. We first looked through as to what we think would look good at the start of the trailer as an opening image, we settled on an eire shot of Suzi's eye that had a white contact in it. Lora had said that it would be effective if we used a 'flash on-flash off' type of shot. She then used some of the shots from the teaser trailer from 'super 8' to display the effect to Alana and I. I thought that this was a really good idea and had thought of something similar myself, however Lora had explained it far better. I also suggested whether it would be a good idea if we could add in some white noise to make the trailer seem as if it were made in a sort of documented style. Alana and Lora again thought this could work very effectively as seen in the films 'White Noise' and 'The Blair Witch Project'. We believed that if we did fast flashes of the same image of Suzi's eye but from different shots and angles this would look very distorted and scary. One of the shots were the shot was blurred turned out to be a very impressive and effective shot meaning that we will use it at some point in the teaser trailer.
After we had ordered the shots that we wanted the trailer to run in we decided to look at the effects that we could use to enhance the mood and create a effect of verisimilitude. I pointed out an effect called 'Ghosting' we found this distorted the images of Suzi's eye further and thought it would become visually captivating to the audience. We also used some of the brightness balance on some of the shots either creating them darker of lighter depending as to whether the actual shot was to light or dark for the mood we were trying to create.
We also tried to find some non-copy right music that would fit into the theme and effect of our trailer but have not found anything yet, we hope to continue this next lesson.
We have not yet added into the trailer the narrative on a black screen between the shots due to the shortness of time, but we intend to continue this in our next lesson.