EDITING- special effects

THE 'GLITCH'

The glitches you can see in the trailer when having introduced the names of our actors was added in to add something slightly more special so that it stood out and also made the trailer conform to the stereotypes of a psychological drama being quite harrowing as the intensity of the stares increases the 'fear factor.' 

This was achieved by firstly making the clip very short, so it was made to be 0.5 seconds. It was necessary to make the clip appear to be more 'smooth' and high in quality, so the effect of 'cartoon' was added which made the image appear slightly more softer. This was done by selecting the 'cartoon' effect and dragging it onto the clip.

Then to create the shaking effect the 'earthquake' effect had to be added, this was done in the same way as demonstrated in the paragraph above. This effect made the glitch move side to side slightly more to emphasise the glitch more so that it did not look like bad quality filming naturally.

This was then completed by adding the 'bad T.V' effect

THE 'PRISM' EFFECT

This effect was added to make the image seem in some way quite distorted but in a subtle way, to suggest how the protagonist seems normal to his friend but then there is something off key about him. This effect was found on Final Cut Pro. It was simply done by opening and cutting the clip on Final Cut Pro and adding the effect actually called 'prism' onto it by dragging it. This was then saved as a separate movie and then imported onto iMovie. This effect merely highlighted the outlines of the main elements in the clip, and this added a slight touch of oddity in the appearance of the clip.

FLASHING PENCIL EFFECT

This effect was made on Final Cut Pro and was done just to make the trailer more fast paced to add to the disoriented illusion we were trying to create. The quickness of the clip and the fastness adds to the nature and convention of a teaser trailer being short, so in this we were successful in meeting a teaser trailer's typical convention. Doing this followed the same procedure of dragging the effect onto the clip. Also this clip was added to create almost a small bridge before the clip that came after it as it was quite long, so by introducing those jump cuts with this small, snappy clip made the trailer flow a lot more visually.