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Film Trailer Bloopers

Creating a blooper reel helps us with the journey of our work, this shows the minimal mistakes both camera and actors had during filming. Exhibiting not only the mistakes but the deleted clips and scenes of our trailer.

Final Film Trailer

After we got the feedback, we discussed as to what further changes we can have in order to improve the trailer before submitting it was our final version. 

One of the changes we applied in order to improve the final draft is to reduce the amount of white noise heard. At the beginning, the first dialogue heard had quite a lot of white noise so we used Adobe Audition in order to reduce the amount of white noise to a minimum. This was also applied to the Priest's dialogue in the trailer.

In addition, we realised that the date for the film trailer was missing so we added that at the end with the title and social media inter-titles.

We decided to show that the film is a modern film being released by universal pictures, we changed the logo design from the old one to the new one (since it's what most of the latest films are currently using).

 Old Universal Logo

New Universal Logo

Social Media Feedback

This is the audience feedback from 3 social media networks found to be most popular these days. We have recieved great feedback about the official trailer. There were so many comments on the great editing and it's partnership with the music which is constant throughout the feedback we've been getting. This comes to show a great result to what we have produced as a trailer.

Questioning for Audience feedback

After taking their reactions, we managed to gain the chosen audience to answer a few questions. This involved 4 males and 1 female. The fact that the majority are male is because they are our target audience from the age range 18 - 20 years old, they all fall under the minimum age range. We wanted to know if the trailer was clear, what should be improved, what appealed to them the most and so on.
From this feedback, we have gained really good feedback with little flaws that is either due to sound or filming.

Audience feedback

This is a page full of screenshots from whatsapp feedback on our trailer's first draft. So far there were strong complimentary comments and a few flaws like not viewing the suspects in detail e.g. the pictures on the map, or a clip of an actor looking like they were about to laugh. Although these are flaws we unfortunately cannot improve on majorly as that would need additional filming. However as an overall result, we have gained great results on out final draft so far which means there would not be much changes done. There were great reactions of the music, the scenes, the plot and performances of the actors which we are grateful to hear about. This feedback very helpful to learn any improvements we may need and what we have done well in. So far, with this feedback we have done well.

Gmail communication

In order to send files for the poster e.g. billing block, we used Gmail. This was useful as you could send one email to all members of the group. The billing block was something we can to share and was already done by one member of the group, so in terms of everyone having the same one we had to save the already done copy.

Music Research

When finding music for our trailer, we want to find a number of royalty free tracks that create both suspense and a sense of accelerating drama as the trailer progresses. We need to have multiple tracks so that the music does not become boring for the audience, and also to show the change in pace from the beginning to the end. Some options for music are:

Epic Drum Music Super Dark Dramatic

Straight away this piece opens with an eery sound to set an ominous tone. The lack of time signature, as well as creative use of silence and diminuendo on the sound effects in the first 5 seconds is quite disorientating for the listener. This is then punctuated by the entrance of the drums, which follows a driving rhythm that continuously builds throughout the piece, until we eventually reach the climax point when the cymbals enter. This progressive development increases the tension and excitement felt by the audience as the piece goes on, which may make it useful to use towards the climax of our own trailer.

Epic Suspenseful Action Music Instrumental


The melodic motif heard at the beginning of the piece is based loosely on a minor triad, which sets quite a dark tone to the piece. The introduction of the drums could be used in our trailer to represent the violence in our plot. Epic Suspenseful Action Music "Desperation" Original Film Movie Soundtracks, chase running dramatic
The use of fast quaver rhythms almost immediately, coupled with the crescendo and addition of more instruments heard for the first 50 seconds of the music makes this section of the piece appear to be where the drama builds. We could use this part of the music after the exposition of our trailer, where the pace of the plot will begin to quicken.

Epic Suspenseful Action Music "Desperation" Original Film movie Soundtracks


The piece uses a lot of supernatural noises which create a sense of foreboding. It is also atonal, so there is no sense of the music settling or being defined by key which is both disorientating and disconcerting for the listener. Although it is unclear where, having this somewhere in our trailer would help to establish the horror genre. Kevin MacLeod ~ Private Reflection

The vocal part of this piece sounds quite hymn-like, which is an aural representation of the religious aspects of our plot. The use of semitones in the melody helps to establish the minor key, and the build from a solo to choral vocal part also helps to build the tension created by dissonance via suspensions in the accompanying choir part.


Kevin MacLeod ~ Darkness is Coming

The lyrics "Darkness is coming" represent the genre of horror well because darkness is often used to show the presence of evil. The choir arrangement of this piece adds to the religious representations that we need to put in our trailer.

Final Magazine and Teaser Poster

Google Drive

As part of keeping all our files and accessible to both school and home laptops or desktops we used google drive as our portable hard drive, any day and anywhere. We had to use two accounts, hydeproductions15 and hydeproductions1502 since the first account's memory ended up being full due to the amount of film footage we had. The second account helped keep hold of extra footage, music, after-effects inter-titles and introduction. All members of the film crew had full access to both accounts.

Thankfully enough this also provided us a gmail account and a youtube account in addition when signing up to google overall. 

Sound editing

When listening to the dialogue in our draft trailer, we noticed a significant amount of white noise/hiss that affected the quality of the speech heard. This not only made it harder for the person watching to understand what was being said, but it negatively impacted the professionalism of our trailer, so in order to solve this issue we used Adobe Audition to reduce the white noise.

To begin with, we had to import the file that we wanted to edit the audio of. This was an easy process.

After selecting "Import > File", we just had to find the file. We did this by searching the name of it so we didn't have to spend unnecessary time looking through folders. When we found it, we just selected it and clicked "Open".

When the file has been imported, the sound-wave of the audio is shown, as can be seen above.The height of the sound-waves indicate the volume of the audio at that point. If you look closely at the image shown here, you can see that even at points that are meant to be silent, you can still see a small amount of amplitude - this is the white noise we wanted to reduce.

After importing the audio, the whole track had to be selected, so that both the dialogue and all the "silence" that we were trying to clean up would be included when the changes were made.

The next step clicking "Effects > Noise Reduction / Restoration > "Hiss Reduction (process)". This is effect we used to refine the audio.

This is the window that opens after selecting the Hiss Reduction effect. By adjusting the levels of the noise floor and how much you want to reduce the hiss by, you can work out where the optimum balance between quality of audio and reduction of white noise. We listened back to the audio repeatedly during this process to find the point of hiss reduction we were happy with.

These are the levels we decided on. As you can see from the sound-wave, the parts of the audio that are meant to be silent have less amplitude than they initially did, showing that the white noise has been reduced.

The final step was simply saving the file. Then we put the edited audio back into the trailer, and we used it as our final audio.

Distortion effect step by step

This is a step by step account of how we made the distortion effect in Adobe After Effects. The main things you need for this is the font of your text (If it's not already downloaded) and a Screen Glitch loop. (Which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEFcfZvz8yY). 

Step 1

Once this is done, we then went on After effects and typed the text and then added the screen glitch layer on top of the text. 

Step 2

Once this is done you then make the screen glitch layer invisible so then we are left with just the title. After this you then create a new adjustment layer copy of the screen glitch layer.

Step 3

After this you then select the effect you want, since we wanted distortion you go to distort and select 'Displacement Map'

Once selected, you go to the setting on the right and change the 1st setting from adjustment layer to the glitch screen.

This is the difference, it changes the image from this (above) to this (below)

Step 4

After this, on the settings on the left hand side, you can select how much you want the image/text to distort by, the higher the number the more violent the distortion is.

And finally, on the adjustment layer, you can shorten or extend the length of the distortion. Also by duplicating the layer (ctrl +c or cmd +d) you can make the image/text distort several times and stop at certain sections too.

And that is how we made the distortion effects as seen here below.

Audience Blind Reactions

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Here are the blind reactions of our target audience watching the trailer for the first time. They have included some comments throughout the trailer and it was found whilst editing most reacted during key points in the trailer so it all couldn't be added in. Our target audience was mainly male so the majority of those who we have taken reactions from and have questioned are male, whilst one being female.

Group Communication

As part of being able to communicate with each other at home, we used whatsapp as a group chat. It was a very useful app, since we could send images, videos and voice notes. In these cases of the screenshots we are asking cedric to upload some after-effects video file on the google drive in order to view it or to have it saved and ready to use for use on the main desktop mac. The second screenshot is of us checking where we are for a meet-up for filming later in the day. The last screenshot is of us communicating to an absent member, Amber, showing her an update of the recent trailer.