Movie development

This was the very first edit that was created. This was exactly how I wanted the sequence to go as I followed the storyboards that where created to the letter. Wilest creating this cut I used sound effects from soundbible sound effects.   The fact that this was the first edited I created this with the fact of much more development would be needed.



This cut I added some word graphics to tell the audience what they where to be thinking about however these where too small and there was too much so the next step would be to simpilfy the graphics and carry on with further development to make them more effective.



With this cut I used incompetech royalty-free music to help set the feeling of the scene and used royalty free as that way there would be no paper work that would be needed to gain permission to use their music. I also used larger moving graphic to be more notice able and also simpler for there not to be too much going on at the same time.



To help the idea of this film I used a voice over to say the major words, however the words that say 'no?' and 'too bad' created a comical feel to the film and where henceforth, removed to keep the horror feel intact.  After realising that what I had in fact created was more typical of an opening sequence, I tried to combat this, so I cut a section of the trailer out so as to not give away the whole story in one go; this still needed further work to create the final product.



This edit I added a heartbeat effect to try and show the tension the characters would be feeling. The 'through white' transition was an attempt to solve a jumpy transition however this did not work as planned so is something that would be needed to be looked further into.


This was an edit without the heartbeat sound effect as I felt it wasn't as effective as hoped so ultimately it was removed to focus on the storyline atmosphere and feeling of the film.



With this cut the inspiration of putting the production name in the start came form another horror move trailer however I could not recreate the same effect as what was shown on the original trailer that the idea came from not therefore was not used in future cuts.



The idea of using a medical flat line was an idea that was given from audience feed back however it gave the idea of someone surviving and being in a clean safe place that works against the usual connotation within horror movies and trailers. This was put down to an idea that did not work so was scraped.



This was the first audible cut with the new voice over. The problem with this one is that during editing  that thanks to the volume the voice was recorded was much louder than the rest of the footage This is something that was needed to be developed and solved.



This edit had further audio problems with all sound being far away to quiet and making it hard to understand anything that was being said.


Again the thing that is needed to be looked at in this was the volume of the voice over and the sync of the sound as the timing between the gate closing and the sound of the gate closing is very far out.



This cut was done with the idea of being like a movie trailer as the storyline was mixed up to cause more questions to be asked and keep the audience involved trying to make sense of what is going on. I also noted the fact that after I showed this trailer to my target audience they mainly questioned the genre because of the voiceover, hence this will be removed. As well as that the problem with the audio sync also needs to be revived as its out by some way with the gate closing.





After realising that using headphones to set my sound levels had caused a major error making barely any audiable sound, this was my first cut that tried to fix this problem.

After much time I feel all the niggley problems have been ironed out and this is the final final edit for my first draft.