Lighting, Editing and Sound - Research

Lighting:

HIGH KEY – The lighting is bright and relatively low in contrast. The majority of our trailer will not be using this apart from scenes where we wish to emphasise the innocence of our main character. However, as the film is dark and has elements of horror it will be mostly dark and eerie.

LOW KEY – The lighting has much more pronounced shadows and dramatic contrasts. We WILL be using this type of lighting for our trailer as our aim is to create a scary looking setting as there are strong elements of horror within our trailer. I will create this on the video mostly using MoviePlus which is the editing software I use for editing, I will be editing the curvature and apply shadow filters to the already dark light frames.

COLOUR FX – Can include: Clod or blueish lighting (connoting cold or spookiness). Warm or yellowish (connoting comfort, eg- a beach or sunset scene), Black and White or Sepia. We may use the blueish lighting on parts using the effect options on SerifMoviePlus to make the scenes appear spookier.

Editing:

CONTINUITY EDITING – Film sequences normally follow this type of editing so that time seems to flow in a natural and believable way. Cuts will only be used as this gives a real life effect to the movie. Continuity editing can also include “cross-cutting” which is where a sequence cuts between two pieces of action happening at the same time. But it still has to maintain the seamless flow of action. Within a trailer there is a lot of cross cutting between different scene and therefore a lot of editing will not follow a continuity structure but instead more of a montage editing structure.

MONTAGE EDITING – Opposite, the cuts are normally noticeable and do not represent the seamless flow of time. It can use juxtaposition of images to create contrast and a more artistic feel.

CUT – One image is instantly replaced by another without a viable transition. We will martially be using these as they are required for continuity editing.

CROSS-DISSOLVE – One image dissolves into another.

FADE-UP – An image fades in from black, we may be using a few of these between scenes as one at the beginning and between the production companies logo’s.

FADE-OUT – Fading out to black, like the previous we may use a few of these.

WIPE – One image replaces another, where the border between the image moving across or around the screen.

Sound:

DIEGETIC SOUND – Sound that seems to be part of what is going on, on the screen. For example, thunder, cars, footsteps. We will be using for this birds and other forest noises which are part of the direct action. The biggest part of the diegetic sound will be the dialogue which we will write a script for.

NON-DIEGETIC SOUND – Sound that is not part of the action or what is going on, on the screen. For example a soundtrack, we will be using a soundtrack for out trailer alongside the diegetic sounds.

SOUND BRIDGE – Linking two scenes together by sound. For example we may use bird noises to link the production logo to the first shot of the forest.

SOIND EFFECTS – Sound which is added on top which is not dialogue and music. Sound is added during the post-production stage using Foley.