The Third Eye trailer

The Plot

Before/after editing

To introduce the characters we created diary entries in order to explain to the audience in a quick and clear way the personalities of each character. These diary entrys are very important in order for the audience to understand the upcoming clip after each character is introduced. Hannah is a great example, as she uses a big smile, whilst rocking around showing she is a very energetic girl, also can be percieved as being 'Bonkers' as she uses in the clip.

Shown are the two images before and after editing. To make it easier and clearer for the audience the on screen text enables them to be sure of the character and the name of the actor, ensuring no errors are made that could cause confusion and also makes it more personal for each individual character. Also we have made the edges of the screen darker, creating the effect of the lense of a camera being circular, making it look less professional, how ever at the same time is what we want the audience to believe.

In Hannahs scene we followed our plot and used her playing a board game against herself. Attempting to portray a character as 'bonkers' was quite difficult in which this was the best way to do so. Also to create a better effect we shot this scene from a 'birds eye view' perspective, by doing this it allows the audience to see everything that is going on with a clear view.

Again in this scene we used the lense perspective to create the effect of a camera watching the actress. A chess styled transition (mosaic) was also used due to it relating to the clip with the chess board. Also we have speeded up this clip as firstly it was too long and secondly it produced a stranger effect, in which representing Hannahs crazy/split personality.

Due to having the gates to a rather large house we felt we had to use this to our advantage. The use of gates like these are very iconic when it comes to producing a horror film. The way in which we used these was as an ending to our trailer. Using closing gates can represent many thought provoking ideas, such as the end of something or someone or no way out. By using this clip as a closing scene makes the audience want to watch the film to find out.

The closing scene is often one of the main things the audience will remember from your trailer, in which the editing had to be able to grasp the audiences attention in order for them to want to watch more.
We have changed the whole trailer to a 'negative' effect, we felt this formed a scarier twist to the ending of the trailer, also making it stick out to the audience as it was something different. The gates were speeded up in this scene as it was origionally too long and as our research showed, a clip too long can often bore the audience.

As this house was the main set for our whole trailer we wanted to make it as scary as possible. In order to do so firstly we used 'up lights' on to the house to create a spooky feeling. To add to this we had one of the characters walk slowly across the house making the shadow to give the effect that there was somebody lurking about, however as we did not show the actual character, in which it allows the audience to use their imagination to who or what this may be.

We used 'garageband' to create the deep, scary voice over in which adds to the horror side of the trailer. Slightly tinting the background green and the text with which has bits missing gives off the dirty, old feel to the house.

The first scene creates the effect where the audience has to first wait and ask themselfes, 'what is going on? and what is going to happen next?' It firstly creates the scary atmosphere however then goes on to the comical twist of the film to get the audience laughing yet at the same time on the edge of their seats as they don't know what to expect next.
The opening scene is just as important as the last, in which we wanted to describe the film to the audience in this short space. By including the phrase and talk over 'If you thought Horror was dead...' instantly shows the audience it is a horror, however the scene suprises them with a comedy side to it, as they must be expecting otherwise.

The deep voice over, night vision and green effect are again all used in this scene to create a feeling of horror, however the scene then speeds up to change the atmosphere from horror to comedy.

In Jade's scene we attempted to make her look as 'tarty' and 'vulnerable' as possible as seen in her diary entry this is what her character was percieved as. By looking at previous films we found that having a shot of her just coming out of the shower with 'The Third Eye' watching her was the most iconic way to do so.
We use a dirty dark green colour in this scene to add to the creepy side of it. We also add a 'laugh' sound effect to add a bit of comedy to the eery silent build up.

As seen in alot of comedy horrors the main 'bady' isn't always so smart and so in this scene when Jade turns around the character gets caught by her and scampers away, which in this scene is the comical twist for the audience.

We started the scene in the toilet, this was due to you first hearing the groaning from a man, however when the camera drops to see this shot the audience understands he was not in pain and just on the toilet which is meant to be the comedy side to our film.
Again in this scene we used the dark perspective around the boarder to create the effect that it was a camera lense.

We used a 'ripple' effect for the transition of this clip as it linked well with the toilet flushing
The idea of someone on the toilet is not to everyones idea of comedy and alot may not want to see this, however we thought this was one of the funniest scenes, in which in relation to the genre of the film we felt we could involve this in a way that everyone would laugh.