Rough Cut

Somnium - Rough Cut from Rosie Chatterjea on Vimeo.

Here is a rough cut of the production so far. From this point we have a number of things to do in order to improve the trailer and make it as professional as we can. At the moment, we just have all of the clips placed in order according to the script. After doing this however, we have realised that it comes across more like a short film, rather than a trailer. In order to resolve this problem we have decided that we will move the scenes around to make flow in a more trailer-like way.

Also, we have no music in the trailer as of yet. We need to select the music that we will use throughout the trailer so that we can add it to the production, positioning it where necessary. We will find sound effects to add to the production too which will help to emphasize significant parts of the trailer. We will change the pitch of Evylyn's voice too, using a software called audacity. This will make her line ('get the girl!') sound more bold and frightening.

A common convention of trailers is to have intertitles which help to tell the narrative. We have decided to use the words 'What would you do... if your childhood nightmare.... came to life?' which we will make appear at 3 different  places at the beginning of the trailer. We also need to create the main title of 'Somnium' which will appear right at the end of the trailer just before the billing block.