Audacity

I want to use Audacity for a part in my trailer where the Antagonist is talking on the phone.
I'm going to record the Antagonists lines, and edit them in Audacity to make them sound like they've been taken from a phone call.


I watched this video to see the process of changing the voice:

Prelude and Action Music.

This is the ending music to my trailer.

This is called Prelude and Action by Kevin MacLeod.

Dark Fog Music

This is the beginning song for the soundtrack to my trailer.

It's called Dark Fog by Kevin MacLeod.

Sound ideas

I was searching for songs to use in my trailer and I came across two soundtracks that I think would work really well in my trailer. I found these on a site called Incompetech, they are royalty free and do not require permission to be used.

The trailer will start with the Dark Fog music and after the Phone Call will go straight into Prelude and Action.

The descriptions used to describe the music also fit my trailers plot and the Crime Thriller genre.

Poster Photo's

Today, I took several photo's for my poster. I will only be using one of them, so to decide which photo I'll be using, I'll be doing a vote. Whichever picture gets the majority vote will be the picture I use for my poster.

These are the pictures:

Picture 1:

Picture 2:

Picture 3:




None of these photos have yet been edited. It's likely I'll cut around the photo and place it on a new background, so it's mainly the way the protagonist is positioned that I would like people to vote for.

Filming: Day 2 - Scene Stills

The first shot of the day was the missing poster. I wanted to get this out of the way first since it wasn't too windy at this time. 

The second scene was the conversation, which is included to reinforce the story.


















The final shot was the establishing shot, which opens my trailer.

Filming: Day 2

On day two of filming, I filmed the missing poster shot, the brief conversation and an establishing shot. These scenes took place at my first location, which was on Moor Lane and on a field just behind the college. These settings were ideal for the shots as it shows the extent of the search for my protagonists sister.

The first shot was the missing poster. I wanted to have a medium close-up shot of my protagonist putting the poster up, and then to zoom in on the poster slightly to establish the importance of this poster. The camera was held by me just on the left of the pole that the protagonist puts the poster onto.

The reason for this scene is to start establishing the plot to my trailers target audience. It also introduces my protagonist and her sister, which is key to allowing my audience to see who the main characters are in my film.

The second part of our filming session was the conversations between my main protagonist and a small role. It was an over the shoulder shot of the other character that focuses on my protagonist. The character says "We'll help you find your sister" - this line confirms the narrative of my trailer and starts to interest the audience into finding out why she's missing.

Finally, I filmed an establishing shot of the field. This shot is a common feature in a Crime Thriller trailer - In all three of the trailers that I had researched, an establishing shot was used. I specifically did this shot on this day as the weather was dull and grey- this is pathetic fallacy that reflects the mood of my protagonist and the atmosphere of the trailer.

Filming lasted approximately just under two hours. This was due to change of idea's on angles, repeating scenes if lines weren't said right or if something went wrong and to make absolutely sure that I was happy with how the scene/shots look.

Filming: Day 1 - Scene Stills

 The first still is from the first shot we did, where Catherine (the protagonist in my trailer) is asleep on the sofa and the phone starts ringing.

The second still is from the second shot, where Catherine answers the phone.

Filming: Day 1

On the first day of filming, I decided to get the phone call scene filmed. This took place at Charlotte's house, my main actor in my film trailer, as the setting was ideal and exactly how I pictured the scene to be.

The scene was to be a mid-to-long shot of my actor, who was to lie on the sofa until the phone rang, instructing them to get up and answer. The camera was positioned behind the coffee table that had the phone on with my actor in shot, lying on the sofa. Since the phone would be almost center in the shot, this would put the main focus on the phone- showing it to be an important object in the scene.

The reason for this scene is so that it establishes the disequilibrium in my trailer, which is key to gaining the interest of my audience.

The filming session was efficient and didn't take too long to get finished, leaving us enough time to edit the clips and finish off any outstanding work left to do for our trailer.

Filming Schedule

6th December - Phone Scene

12th December - Missing Poster, Conversation, Establishing shot

15th January - Antagonist voice clips. 

20th February - Walking Down Street, Gun pointing to Camera

22nd February - Tapping fingers (ring), Instructions through letterbox, List numbers

23rd February - Phone shot, Instruction pick up, Pulling gun out of bag