Editing

Today and yesterday we edited more of our footage and cut parts out so it matches the teaser trailer time. Between 1 to 2 minutes. We have decided to edit more to make sure our teaser trailer is finished before Thursday, which is the deadline.

Once we had finished cutting the footage that we didn't need, we began to add some effects. One effect that we used was the dip to black transition between a shot of the character played by Ana, who is explaining the sitution, into the next titling shot of the house at Polesden Lacey, called 'Alcott Manor'. The computers that we were using were running really slow and crashing, so we are yet to add more effects. We will be using a lot of fade to black and dip to black in our trailer, similar to the style that's seen in the Woman in Black (2012) teaser trailer.

We filmed the shots whilst it was light, because of the opening hours at The National Trust house, so we needed to darken the images to make it appear to be near night time, a stereotypical convention of a horror film. To do this, on all of our selected shots we then changed the contrast. By doing this we selected the colour balance HLS x3 to create a dark enough image that didn't distort or ruin the quality of the shots.