Developments in our trailer

Completed Trailer

Deleted scenes

This clip shows where the mother has been attacked by the father showing a bruise on her face. However, we decided not to include this clip because in another clip we used, it shows the mother has been attacked by the father using a glass bottle therefore this would not result in a bruise it would be a bleeding cut instead. Therefore, it may suggest to the audience that the father has aggressively attacked the mother on more than one occasion for the bruise to appear on her face which is not the case. Using the theme of domestic violence would come away from the theme we planned to stick to which is the quest to find her son not that the father may be a threat to the child. We also decided not to use this clip because in the park scenes the mother didnt have the bruise on her face showing inconsistency, at this point we had already filmed a large amount of the park scene and weren't prepared to re-do our filiming as well as editing.

This was going to be the clip of the son travelling on a bus after being kidnapped however, we decided against this as it gave away the narrative to the audiecne and considering we are producing a trailer we wanted to keep as much as possible of the plot hidden, so viewers are left on a cliffhanger predicting the ending themselves. 

We chose not to use this clip as it is simply a close up of what the mother is pouring down the sink, which is already shown from a different angle earliar on in the trailer. 

Through using a close up shot of the prop which was used as the child's toy created significance that the child was no longer in the vacinity because he had dropped/left his toy behind. However, Nicola and I were torn between using the teddy bear as a close up or the red balloon the child was holding, in the end we decided on the balloon as it symbolised and loving relationship and danger ahead due to the red balloon.

Developments using Adobe

After recording clips for our trailer we used the software Adobe Premier Elements which allowed Nicola and I to edit out clips by rearranging them in different orders, applying transtions and atributing the use of background music and sound effects, and editing the brightness and colour of our clips.