Our Prelim Trailer

For our prelim task we were asked to create a scene from a horror film of our choice. The prelim task is helping us to get familiar with the filming, editing and creating our plot, this will help us with creating the final horror trailer because we will be more prepared and we can improve from the mistakes we made completing the prelim task.

When my group was first told about making a short clip from a horror film, we all had a similar idea involving a a young girl and a villain. We were given 1 day to create the clip so because we didn't have enough time, so we decided to film the clip in the school bathroom. One of our group member had to stand outside the door so no one could come in and disrupt our filming, this was a bit of a challenge because there was a lot of people who wanted to use the toilet so we have to film very quickly. We planned our shots while we were filming, and they all worked out well, but we had trouble with having all of our shots in focus so we had to film some of the clips again. Editing the video took longer than filming the clips because we have a clear vision of what we wanted our video to look like so we were very particular of where the clips should go and the order. We decided to add some effects where in the middle of the video we wanted it to look like a surveillance camera.  We created this effect by adding a darkish green filter on top of the video and we got the time at the bottom right hand corner, we got the time from a video on Youtube and then added it to ours.
The last scene was quite last minute because after we finished editing the video we thought that something was missing so we decided to quickly shoot a tap scene with the fake blood around the sink. Originally we wanted to have fake blood coming out of the tap but we only had red paint to use and when we ran it under the tap the water looked pink instead of red so we decided to change the idea. This idea worked be effectively because it linked in well with the other footage that we filmed.
We remade the clip form Cry_Wolf, this clip was towards the end of the film. We had to change what happened slightly because in the film, the girl took a photo of herself and sent it to her boyfriend and when her boyfriend saw the photo there was a dark shadow behind her. We decided to leave that part out because we were limited for time and we thought the idea of having the villain standing behind her and the girl screaming was effective because it would scare the audience, and it would also leave the audience to wonder what had happened.