Editing Horror/Thriller trailers
It’s great to see everyone turning up for more Clipclub sessions – we’ll be carrying on into the summer months. This is important because, as we’re discovering, films take lots of time, planning, concentration and effort! Over the past 2 sessions the team has been been working on edits for a potential film trailer.
Before they get on with editing we talk about what makes a good edit:
- selecting the most interesting bits of the available clips:
- visually
- cinematically
- dramatically
- being careful about deciding where clips start and where clips finish (the start point and the end point)
- thinking about clip length – shorter the better for trailers
- carefully adding digital effects: sound effects, voices, titles, music, fade ins and fade outs
- carefully editing digital effects: reversing or slowing down sound
- not SHOWING and EXPLAINING everything… it’s better to make people curious and raise questions in people’s minds so they want to see the film
The below clips were done in a short space of time, with only a quick demonstration on the whiteboard of what’s possible in the software. This one by Nimbus and Leonardo is particularly good and captures all the suspense of a thriller/horror trailer, made from the various bits of footage and sound taken over the past few weeks.:
Here are more practice trailers which aren’t quite finished yet:
