Editing

When we began editing today we started to remove the audio that we didn't want and diagetic sounds from the footage because we will replace it with non-diagetic music. When Hannah continued editing, her main focus was on the non-diagetic sound. We want music playing mostly throughout the trailer. In our first free today we trialed the different non-copyright music that Hannah and I had found to see which one we thought was most suited to the mood that we want to portray and whether it fitted with the images. In the end we chose a very low note to play at the beginning of the trailer as the characters and story is being introduced. This way it doesn't overshadow what is being said. Throughout the rest of the trailer we used the song 'Dark Awakening,' which added a mysterious and supernatural feel to the trailer.

The second focus of today was to record and upload the voiceover spoken by Ana, the character who dares her three friends to stay the night at Alcott Manor. We recorded the dialogue during our third period media lesson and then uploaded it shortly after. We then overlapped the voiceover onto the titling shot of Polesden Lacey and the panning shot of the grounds, this shot gives and underlyning message of isolation. Also today, we all discussed and decided where we would add intertitles after watching the 'Babycall' trailer in yesterdays media lesson. We felt this was rather effective and decided to add some into our own teaser trailer. Hannah E then added the title of the film 'Lost Soul' towards the end. Another intertitle was added reading 'no soul is safe', which will play between the shot of the characters arriving to the grounds and panning shot of where they are. Another intertitle as the very last shot of our teaser trailer reads, 'Coming Soon', there is no date added as it's only a teaser trailer. We uploaded our teaser trailer after we felt we had edited it as much as we could with the footage and music we had. We will present it to our media class tomorrow but we feel we need to film more and add in a wider range of camera angles and shots.