PROJECT 8
Setting the Pace and Mood with Editing
It’s now time to see what your trailer footage looks like. In this project, you bring your film footage to life and set the mood and pace of your film trailer.
When editing, “setting the pace and mood” means to create the feel and emotion of your film. This can be done by the way the shots look, the type of shots you use, the length of time you stay on a shot in the timeline, or the mood of the music you use. It’s important that the feel and look of your trailer matches the genre of your film. If your film is a romance, for example, you don’t want to change the shots too often, and you may want to include shots that clearly tell the audience it’s a romance, such as when two characters look lovingly into each other’s eyes, or find music that fits the mood. Scary or creepy music, of course, is not going to work for a romance.
Our film crew created a thriller film trailer about a group of young people who find themselves lost in a forest. To get the feel of a thriller across when editing, we have to capture the expressions and emotions from the actors and add music that matches these emotions.
Our crew decided to keep the length of their shots short, and to include shots that show fear from the characters and use music that has a creepy and scary feel.
In this project, I show you how to make your trailer look great and how to match it to the genre you’ve chosen.
Arranging Your Footage on the Timeline
In Project 5, I showed you ...
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