Editing: Inter-title Ideas

For our supernatural horror teaser trailer, Tab and I are planning to have about 3 or 4 inter-titles throughout as these are conventional of trailers to establish the narrative and give extra information about the film, such as actors, producers and and any previous films that the film sequels. These inter-titles will appear in between a range of sharply edited, fast non-linear shots of the film's narrative, to create a tense build up to the trailer's crescendo and to not give away the film's plot completely so that it intrigues our audience. Our objective is for the inter-titles to include our film's tagline, and make the audience think of how they could relate to the film's narrative.

Here is our initial idea for our inter-titles:

• From the makers of 3:17AM
• Based on true events
• Sometimes evil...
• ...is closer than you think

We feel that these inter-title ideas are effective in successfully hinting to our audience the narrative of our supernatural horror film without revealing too much and instead intriguing them and making them watch our film. We have also used conventional techniques such as saying that the film is from the producers of another film (3:17AM was the name of last year's project), therefore attracting fans of that film. Another technique was to say that the film is based on true events, which is specifically conventional of supernatural horror film trailers as it is effective at scaring the audience into thinking that if the events in the film happened to real life people, then it could easily happen to them. It also makes the film's narrative feel a lot more realistic.

Below are some ideas for how we want our inter-titles to look like in our final trailer:

The font used is serif, which gives it an eerie and creepy feel and relates to the old-style house setting as serif font has connotations of being quite old fashioned. I like the red font and how it contrasts well with the dark background and stands out. Plus, red is a conventional iconic colour of the supernatural horror genre as it has connotations of danger and blood, foreshadowing the events that are to come in the film and hinting the fate of the main protagonists in our film to the audience.

We have decided that we are not going to include the actors names within our teaser trailer as this goes against the conventions of other supernatural horror films, as generally well known actors rarely star within the genre as they often have low budgets and are made by small, low-budget production companies who can't afford A-list celebrities. Including the names of actors who are not well known would be pointless as they wouldn't attract any of the audience because they wouldn't have any fans who would just go and see the film because of them.