Wind In The Willows: My Trailer

Post 11 – Wind in the Willows: My Trailer

In making my trailer I tried to look for a combination of different clips to use. I think it’s important in a trailer to have lots of different clips to move between and although having to create a minute long trailer sounds really short, but you need a variety of clips to really convey the mood of the film. It would be simple to place together a few long clips, but especially with a horror movie, the trailer is very often quite jumpy, regularly skipping from clip to clip to add to the tension. I have used around ten different clips at this point in my trailer all at a variety of lengths and rates. There are some quite intense chase scenes in the trailer, with howling screams added in to keep the viewer on the edge of their seat. I created some texts in Premiere, in white but with a blood-like red across the lettering. I changed much of the text properties from height, width, slant etc.

I used video transitions between some of the clips to give a professional, more natural adjustment from one clip to another. There are a wide range of video transitions available, although I found that ‘dip to black’ and ‘dip to white’, which are two of the more popular effects in television and film, were two that seemed to work well for me within my trailer. The bright white light is often used in horror films such as the Saw films, and I think it adds more to the tension and fright factor sometimes when moving quickly between clips. I also found the dip to black very useful in a very similar way. With a film of this genre, darkness is often a constant theme associated with danger and plays on people’s fear of the dark, so the dip to black transition worked well when dipping to my text screens that play between some of the clips.