Spoof trailer camera shots, camera angles and editing

For our spoof trailer we had focused on including as many camera angles as we could to practice for our real horror trailer. For example, we had a low angle shot of the villain to make him look superior and have more power against the victim. This was purposely done by using a handheld shot and pretending to fall over (like in all horror films, the victim MUST fall over at some point) which then lowers the camera and looks up towards the villain.

As for camera shots, we tried to include all types of shots that we had learnt during our AS Media class. We had included shots such as:

• Long Shot
• Handheld Shot
• Extreme Long Shot
• Medium Close Up Shot
• Close Up Shot

We had included all of this to show that we are aware of the camera shots and will be using them in our final horror trailer. I think that using different camera shots shows variety within our shooting and makes the trailer much more interesting rather than just having one or two shots.

With editing, we edited our video on iMovie on the Mac, which I think is much easier than using Adobe Premier on Windows. It was my first time using it, however, I had managed to get used to it within half an hour and started properly editing our footage. Digetic and non-digetic sounds were added or enhanced to emphasise certain parts of the footage. We had added a heartbeat in the background which could be seen as both digetic and non digetic as we wouldnt normally be able to hear a person's heartbeat however, we still could.

From previous research, we knew that the trailer should not be played in a narrative order so the footage had been mixed up to give the audience a teaser of what the film could potentially about, we aimed to give them enough information to let them know what it is about but not enough to give away the storyline.

Between the scenes, we cleverly cut a fraction of a second of the villain's mask into random parts of the trailer to shock the audience as they would not expect it. Text was also shown before the mask is shown to emphasise on what they are here for.

At the end of the trailer, credits are shown with music in the background. Though I like it, I think it can be improved by making it more realistic by making the text smaller and adding a copyright symbol at the end.