Editing (14th March)

When we started editing today we began to remove the unwanted audio and digetic sounds from the footage because we will replace it with non-digetic music. When Hannah continued editing, her main focus was on the non-digetic sound. We want to have music playing mostly throughout the trailer. In our first free today we trialed the different non-copyright music that Charlotte and I found to see which one was most suitable; i.e what mood it set off 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 does not overshadow what is being said. Throughout the rest of trailer we used the song Dark Awakening, which added a mysterious and supernatural feel to the trailer.

Another main focus 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 uploaded it shortly after. We then overlapped the voiceover onto the tilting shot of Polesden Lacey and the panning shot of the grounds, this shot gives an underlying 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 trailer. Hannah added the title of the film 'Lost Soul' towards the end and we also felt it would be more trailer-like. 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 at the end reads 'Coming Soon', there is no specific date because it is 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.