2. Research
• To research existing trailers I used the internet in order to gain access
to www.youtube.com where I would be able to find 100s of thriller
trailers.
• This is an example of a trailer I researched and how the trailers I
watched looked.
• Google was also a massive help in aiding me find thriller trailers as
well as the film conventions used in thriller trailers.

3. Research
• I also used Microsoft office software such as Microsoft word and
publisher in order to display my work in a more professional fashion
but also I found it was quicker and easier to use so it allowed me to
effectively preview my work on my blog.

4. As well as being very useful for my research on my blog Publisher was also
very useful in the making on our ancillary tasks. As throughout my school
years I’ve always used publisher right from the start I knew exactly what I
was doing on it so it was very easy and quick to use so I felt that was the best
software of choice for me to create a high quality product, I used publisher
for both ancillary tasks in order to place all the features of the magazine such
as the masthead and sell-lines exactly where I was as well as using many of
the fonts available on the software to use for the sell-lines and subheadings.
However for the masthead I felt that was the most important bit of font and
needed an extra special font which I felt publisher did not offer so instead I
used a website called www.dafont.com which offers a range of various fonts
which you are free to use. In order to edit the pictures down to exactly how I
wanted them I used Photoshop elements 8 which from there I was able to
use a tool called ‘Magnetic lasso’ which I can drag round the outline of the
picture, once I’ve gone round the whole picture I can then choose to select
that picture getting rid of the background images completely so I could use
the images I wanted without having an overly complicated background which
I didn’t want. Finally for my film poster I used www.PicMonkey.com which
has many useful tools such as the blood splatters, black edges and misty look
to give the poster a more authentic and professional look.

5. Adobe premiere elements
In order to edit our film the software we used was Adobe Premiere Elements as we felt it
was the quickest, easiest and most effective software for us. As none of us had any
experience on editing software for films what so ever the key for the software was ease of
use emphasise on the use of this software. Luckily there were several people in the class that
were able to give us a hand when needed as well as several online tutorials guiding us along
the way. We initially just played about on this software in the planning stages to really get a
grip for it and when we felt confident enough to perform more complicated edits and use
more creative ideas so we went into our main trailer. As for health issues between the cast
we were unable to complete our original plan of creating a short film so instead as we felt
confident on this software we then set ahead to edit the previous scenes we had shot prior
to this and tried to piece them together by cutting scenes shorter and using quick edits
scene to scene we felt the trailer came along nicely as after the editing was so done there
was a only a couple of shots that had to be re-done in order to piece the trailer together.

6. Filming
As we were all new to filming we originally had a little practice with
the equipment that we were going to be using given to us from the
school which was a handheld camera similar to the one shown on the
left and a tripod stand for the camera so when we do start our trailer
for proper we have all had experience in filming. As we watched back
the footage we had filmed we realised it was a pretty basic video
camera so we were uneasy on whether to use it or not as it may give
the film an unprofessional look lowering the quality of our production.
Despite this we decided to go ahead and use it. On top of this, on
several occasions the cameras would be getting used by other
students so we weren’t always able to film when need be which yet
again didn’t help us for time. However in the end the camera we used
weren’t too bad, the quality wasn’t brilliant but it was vas very quick
and easy to use as it was small and light and in order to get our
footage onto the computer all we had to do is eject the memory stick
from the camera and plug it onto the computer and it would upload
instantly.

7. Sound
Originally we planned to create our own original music for the film as one of our group (Brett)
has a bit of experience in producing music but as we tried to create a piece to fit our film we
didn’t feel it sounded right due to the lack of experience in the particular genre of music
needed for our film. Consequently in order to create our soundtrack we used a website called
www.RoyaltyFreeMusic.com which has 10,000s of tracks which have no copyright laws so it’s
perfectly fine to use, we felt this website was a great help to us as it gives you the options to
browse what style and category of music you want also, as our film was a thriller and needed
an intense film to create suspense we spent hours searching through all the categories fit for
our trailer such as ‘suspenseful’ until we finally we found which one was right for us that really
helped create suspense and give the film an eerie feel which a thriller should have to it