The DVD cover has been made using the trailers of the movies in the DVD Trailer - Ideas post, plus a clip I shot in my own home that I have used as well. All the audio has been replaced, I have used two music tracks, one piano, one dub-steb. I have also used a selection of samples of things like door creaking or people calling to fill in the missing audio. I have placed several titles over the top as a teaser to the story as well as a way to integrate the different scenes.
Now the music itself my seem like an odd choice, while clearly a good
dub-step track these types of movies don't typically have music. The one
reason for this is simply for making a damn cool trailer rather than
the viewer not getting into in in just the short time they see it,
secondly it supposed to be a haunting, why are ghost only interested in
light switches and frying pans? Casper crank that stereo, that's what I
say!
The first clip is when the character from pulse starts receiving messages from the character who died. I added a typing sound clip right at the beginning to make it look as though she stopped typing when she noticed the messages. Later in that clip a sudden movement darts across the scene, I added a thump clip and after a clip of a girl saying hello. The creepy piano melody starts at this point, very film noir. An additive dissolve is used to blend to next scene.
This scene is from my own shoot, just walking up some stairs, but the with the message I put in to make it seem more of a journey. The scene dips to black at the top of the stair are reached.
This blends into an approach of a door, also from my shoot, as the door is reached the next message starts and as the door opens in creaks ominously. The scene fades to white.
The next scene from pulse fades in, almost as if the eyes were just adjusting, I add a girl calling hello over where she called for Josh, as she walks down the hall the beat of the dub-step track kicks in. She turns a corner and gasps, a gasping sample is used here. A film dissolve blends and this scene to the next.
This scene is another self shot one, walking slowly down a corridor towards a corner, it was daylight at this point so as the light increases the scene fades to white with it, and into the next scene.
I decided to use the covers being wafted by the ghost for this scene. The girl form the Amaray cover in inserted as a very translucent and faint image, pulsing in with the beat, this really works well to up the pace of the video with the music. Then the door slams shut on its own, and at the same moment I have inserted a bang noise I used a dip to black but adjusted it so it cuts to black and cust the music and fades to the next scene.
Then we fade into another corridor, walking very slow and shaky, the girls gasping has been slowed but the pitch has been keep, she sounds so scared she can barely breathe, just the effect I was after.
The scene then fades out and back into the scene from paranormal entity where the camera looks up and sees foot prints on the wall by the ceiling, it's at this point the dub-step kicks back in.
A moment later and a random invert transition is used to create a weird pixel effect that takes us to the top of the stairs in the home shoot, the character begins to walk down them, some way down at the same moment a shocked gasp is added, the music cuts and the camera lifts up as though the character had just been picked up, a repeated muffled gasp for air is added as though something has her she's then dropped the camera speeds to the floor but about half way down the video cuts to the last scene, several loud and painful bangs are heard.
The last scene is the Amaray cover with title of the movie, a message saying 'Out Now' and the logos of the invented production companies.
Music clips availble at:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Preludes/15_-_Prelude_No_15 - creepy music
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mochipet/2999_1111/Mochipet-Petdestroyer - dubstep
https://www.freesound.org/people/jjastr1/sounds/134962/ - Typing
https://www.freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/164664/ - door slam
https://www.freesound.org/people/rivernile7/sounds/234244/ - door open/close
https://www.freesound.org/people/UncleSigmund/sounds/132839/ - creak
https://www.freesound.org/people/AlucardsBride/sounds/173114/ - hello
https://www.freesound.org/people/tcrocker68/sounds/235586/ - femail heavey breathing
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