My Individual Editing Focus

To help me with the editing process of the teaser trailer I decided to have a look at some more trailer but focus on the editing side of the trailer. This should help me realise what sort of editing I can include and expand my initial ideas.



I chose to analise the Happy Potter And The Deathly Hallows Trailer as I think this trailer has a really interest editing technique which I think would work really well with our teaser trailer. In this trailer after 52 second it follows a certain pattern. The trailer constantly uses short cuts which are about a heart beat long. Each shot contain a short shots from the film itself. In doing so this helps build up tension and suspense for a viewer. Adding to the suspense the trailer has also included a drumming noise each time a short shot cuts. This gives the viewer the feel of someones heart beating fast, maybe a character in the film and there adrenaline pumping which makes a viewer feel like their involved in the trailer. I think using this effect would defiantly suit our teaser trailer as it would get the viewers adrenaline pumping, making then feel more involved in the trailer which would encourage them to go and see it as a film. Also getting a viewers suspense and tension build plays a huge role in horror and thriller films.




This is the trailer for One Missed Called, which is more of a horror thriller film than the previous Harry Potter trailer I analysed. Around half way through the trailer at 1 minute 45 seconds all the shots become short cuts and a drumming noise similar to a slamming door is used between each cut. All of the short shots contain footage from the film, where as two of the shots include a blank blue screen containing the tag line. Splitting the tag line into two is also a good way to create suspense as the viewer for them few seconds wonders what the rest of the tag line is. This trailer has used a similar editing technique to create tensions for a viewer and make them feel like they are involved in the trailer them selves.




This is a trailer from the film When A Stranger Calls. The end part of the film does include a similar editing technique which the previous two trailers have included to build in a viewers suspense, but at the start of the trailer they do something which I think is very different. At the beginning of the trailer we see a telephone which gives away that the film is about someone calling her. But after a second or two of seeing the zoom shot on the telephone the trailers cuts to a black and white short cut of a girls face. It then quickly cuts back to the zoom shot of the telephone and back to a different black and white shot of the girl. Along side these cuts you can hear a distorted scream. This is very different to how most horror thriller trailer begin and catches the viewer off guide which gets their adrenaline pumping. I think it would be a really good idea to include it in our teaser trailer as it would be a great way to build up tension and suspense from the very beginning.