Sound and script

When creating our film trailer we first decided we wanted to have dialogue in our film trailer however later on we decided it would be best not to use any dialogue of our own. We ended up using dialogue from a copyright free website; this is how we ended up with the priest talking in our film trailer.

 When we started however we did want our own dialogue in our film but we found it very hard to record through the sound speakers as it didn’t pick up very well. When filming we hid sound speakers in the scene for instance under the table when we were investigating the house. At one point we were going to record the sound after our filming but decided against it for reasons such as we didn’t think it would suit our film trailer. The speakers weren’t picking up sound well probably because we put them to far away from the action and we weren’t speaking clearly enough. Another reason we decided against using dialogue was that we didn’t want to make it look like a short film as it is a film trailer. Although we managed not to show the audience the ending of the film, so we could leave the audience on suspense.

 We didn’t really create a script as such before we started filming; we just started to improvise when the cameras started to roll. However we did think about the plot of the film so we could stuff along the right lines. For instance when we were investigating the house we had to seem like we were looking for the owner so that he/she could help fix our car/use their phone. So we were using along the lines of “Is anyone here?” However then when we found his belongings in his house we had to use facial expressions to show scared, worried etc. The footage that we were talking in we didn’t use in our film trailer as it didn’t look right so we decided to cut it. We didn’t have to cut many though as many of the scenes we weren’t using dialogue anyway.

Although we didn't use dialogue in our trailer as such we still had to make a script to have stage direction when we were filming. We didn't just start to roll the camera and hope that are acting was good enough. Below is our script of scenes and stage direction we wanted to film for our film trailer.