We have been editing the footage we filmed in our 5th filming session. We have tested out a rough version of our trailer by putting the clips in the order we had planned to have them in. When we watched it through we noticed that the 'Dream' scenes, including the 'Scary Lady' scene, a scene where Kayla is in a dark room saying "Where am I?" and a clip of Kayla opening her eyes once the film ended, looked very odd and out of place to the rest of the trailer. I think it may have been the drastic contrast between the realistic scenarios and the surrealism to the dream section and also the contrast in lighting - the lighting was mostly bright in the real scenes and dark in the dream scenes. So these factors may have made it seem too strange. We also thought that people may not understand that it was actually a dream.
We liked the idea of adding in the scene because we wanted to steer away from the disorder narcolepsy and show more of the dream aspect to our film. However, we are contemplating taking it out as it makes the trailer look too odd. We tried to make it fit in more by making a copy of the clip where Kayla opens her eyes after the dream and then we put an effect on it to make it go backwards so that she closed her eyes instead and put this at the beginning of the dream sequence to make it look more like an actual dream. We have also decided to cut out the clip where Kayla says "where am I?" as it looks better without this in the dream scene, she also sounds a little odd when she says it.
We also used some audio effects on the 'scary ladies' voice - we used the 'Cathedral' effect which made the voice echo - and we also changed the whole dream to black and white to make it obvious that it was a dream. We came across a 'warp' transition that looked good on the shot of Kayla closing and opening her eyes as it showed that it was a dream and is meant to be a little strange.
Here is the scene:
We liked the idea of adding in the scene because we wanted to steer away from the disorder narcolepsy and show more of the dream aspect to our film. However, we are contemplating taking it out as it makes the trailer look too odd. We tried to make it fit in more by making a copy of the clip where Kayla opens her eyes after the dream and then we put an effect on it to make it go backwards so that she closed her eyes instead and put this at the beginning of the dream sequence to make it look more like an actual dream. We have also decided to cut out the clip where Kayla says "where am I?" as it looks better without this in the dream scene, she also sounds a little odd when she says it.
We also used some audio effects on the 'scary ladies' voice - we used the 'Cathedral' effect which made the voice echo - and we also changed the whole dream to black and white to make it obvious that it was a dream. We came across a 'warp' transition that looked good on the shot of Kayla closing and opening her eyes as it showed that it was a dream and is meant to be a little strange.
Here is the scene:
