Finished Preliminary Task

Here I have posted our final preliminary task.

It begins with a dark screen and an instant tension building piece of non-diegetic music both high pitched and eerie. This is most likely created by the high pitched strings perhaps on a violin. the continuation of the music leads onto the first image of the production company. We used again in continuation of our fist 2 minutes of the film we made in year 12 we used 'Working Title' as it has funded many films of different genres and would fit into our teaser trailer. Again we use the transition of a fade to give the impression of a space in time and scene and the ominous black gives the impression of a dark mood to the trailer.

We then decided to jump straight into the action as we set up an eerie happening of the blind role up revealing a white board with the jagged and creepy writing revealing the phrase ' It's Time' which we again felt had a very ominous tone to it. The only issue was that the writing is not seen clearly on the screen when watched on 'YouTube', I believe this is due to the bad quality of the transition form the 'WindowsMeida' to 'YouTube'. This is a shame as the audience are not able to feel the full effect of the composition of the frame, leading to a less immersive experience. At this point we then introduce a steady heart beat that slowly increases it's pace throughout the trailer. We made the heart beat magnified above all the other sounds as the pace of the heart increasing suggests anxiety and panic to the audience which are the emotions we wish for them to be feeling when watching the trailer. We purposely have left the heart beat as both diegetic and non-diegetic leaving it to the audiences interpretation as to what they think is happening within the frame and what we can interpret from the shot of the composition given.

After this brief action of the revealing of the words we then get a quick glimpse of Suzi's eye. This shot only last for a second and is very fuzzy, so the audience are lead into believing that they are not meant to have seen this quick shot and that something scary is about to happen, again with the aid of the increasing heart beat and the fast paced editing, the audience's tension and mood is enhanced. Straight after the audience are given the title of the film in a printed type of font and also a printed manner so as if a documentary was being written on a type writer. I love this effect and thinks it makes the film more realistic and believable to the audience, deepening their emotions of the film. The line of 'The Haunting of Therfeild' again fits into the font and the way the font is directed at the audience, rather like 'The Haunting of Connecticut'.

A black fade transition then leads to a more action filled shot of Suzi grinning in a sadistic way at directly at the camera which moves form a mid shot into a zoom and fixates on Suzi's eye which has the white contact lens in it, that gives the audience a knot in their stomach feeling of 'all is not right or as it seems'. The movement and shot of the camera is enhanced by an effect we found on 'Adobe Premiere' which was called ghosting, which seemed to blur the image making it a lot more disorientating for the audience to watch and focus on a particular are until it reachs the point of focus and our unique selling point Suzi's eye. Again the beating heart acts as the continuity through the trailer linking all the images together, being the main point of focus to the audiences ears with only slight back ground noises such as the water trickling out the tapes. This forces the audience to become more involved in the trailer.

We then use a fade transition from one shot to the next without the dipping to black, as this keeps the audience motivated and intrigued by the eye which is what we wanted the audience to be intrigued and frightened by. The direct shot of Suzi looking straight at the camera in a close up shot is very off putting for the audience and makes them feel again uncomfortable and frightened. The editing then becomes quick paced and more disorientating for the audience as it cuts to a shot of the 'Mathematics' sign which indicates the film to take place in a school. The shot is shot at a canted angle again forcing the audience to feel disorientated and frightened. The 'Mathematics' sign is shot from two angles again both canted and gives the illusion of things being repeated, giving an ominous tone. Within the quick sequence more images of Suzi's eye are introduced and reminded to the audience. Howver something more is introduced as we decided to capture some static and white noise on the trailer giving the impression of the documentary was that the film is filmed in much like 'Cloverfield' or 'The Blair Witch Project' which enhances the fact of it being realistic. And 'real' people are involved in the events that are filmed. The white noise hints that the film has been interrupted and manipulated which is why some of the scenes are repeated or fixated on frightening images.

The prolonged image again of Suzi's eye with the increasing heart beat, suggests that she is the thing to be afraid of in the story although we don't know the back ground of the story. A quick transition to the inter title of 'The lesson has begun' leaves the audience feeling uneasy and worried as if there is no choice in what will happen next or that they can decide to watch the film or not as the trailer is telling them what is happening and who is in control. The unorganised and almost frenzied composition of the words and some of the phrases in red attract the audience, giving the continuing theme that the film takes place in a school. The slow fade into the release date suggests that the trailer's pace has slowed down and that it is coming to an end. The hear beat has also reached the peak and is very fast paced meaning that the person who the heart belongs to has had meet their fate. The information is only giving what is necessary to the audience, which creates more hype around the trailer and makes them want to know more and leads the to finding out more on the trailer getting them to talk about it or look it up on the Internet. The rest of the trailer is white noise and more static, indicating to the audience the trailer is finished and that it has ended in a disjointed manner. The eerie ending again leaves the audience in a state of unease especially as to how long the shot is left for.

I really like our teaser trailer as I feel that is has all the convensions of a teaser trailer but also gives the audience as much of the action and curiosity to make them want to see more and watch the trailer again. I thought we worked well as a team and used all our ideas together incorporating them together to create our trailer which does look authentic and something that I would go and see for myself at the cinema.