a slight bit of rule breaking...

Today we did a bit more of filming, and yes I realise, it is not
proffessional to start editing before the end of filming.
But we are still short of essential footage and we want to complete
our all important montage scene for the climax of the trailer.
But, today i felt, was very successful.
We wanted to add a slight bit of gore to our trailer without
making it look fake, exaggerated and give too much away.
We decided to have some quick, snappy shots of Charlotte with
blood (fake of course) on her hands. The actual fake blood looks really
effective in the shots, there is one where she walks passed a white collum and
smears her hands on it, leaving a trail of blood. This creates an enigma code
and hopefully makes the audience wonder who's blood that is...what is she
doing?/has done?
All these questions are designed to be wondered in the trailer for the audience
to find out the answers, they have to simply come and see the film!
Another shot was Summer getting dragged back, she looks as if she is
trying to escape from somewhere, this will be added into our montage,
as well as the close up we have of her looking around - it is pitch dark and
her expression looks terrified, she also has a bloody noise and some scratches -
again, the audience is wondering why? Suddenly Charlottes face appears from
behind Summer. This, combined with some thrilling music, we feel will
have an intense effect.
We borrowed an extremley savage looking knife for some scenes in our montage.
While watching trailers we also noticed that quick close-ups of objects are often used.
We decided to use the knife and Charlotte holding it, this has
been taken from the film 'Obsessed' where this also happened, showing
conventions of a real thriller trailer.
The footage will be put together and shown on a blog very soon!