Paranormal Activity 4 Movie Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Xn2JqH5ng

I have to create a movie trailer for my first digital video project. I love ghost, horror, and paranormal activity movies, so I want to create one. I researched some of the paranormal activity movie trailers. These movies are different from most movies because the whole movie is filmed by people in the actual movie or by cameras in the movie that are set-up to watch things. I can't find out who exactly made this movie trailer, but the directors are Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.

This trailer uses different transitions between the scenes. They include going straight from the next scene, having video static, and black pauses between scenes. I like that they use the video static because it goes along with this movie perfectly and it gives a spooky effect especially when the camera breaks during a scene. Its good that they didn't use the video static in every transition because that would be boring and repetitive. In the beginning of the movie they show some text in the middle of the screen. They show the location, date, and information about Kate and Hunter from the previous movie in a simple font. I might show similar text in my movie trailer since I'm doing a ghost/paranormal movie trailer. When they show clips from the security cameras they include a time at the bottom right to make it realistic, which I like because then I can follow what times things happened. That might be a little hard for me to create unless the stock footage I choose has a timer on the bottom. I noticed that almost all movie trailers gives the time frame of when the movie is coming out, like this movie trailer says, "This October." When a movie gets closer to the release date it usually says the exact date. I have decide what time frame I want my movie to come out and show that in the trailer.

The clips go a little fast in the beginning and then it slows down in the middle. Some of the scenes are 3-5 seconds long. At about 1:44 mins the clips starts to get really fast and then one clip is about 5 seconds long and then it shows another 1 second clip then it's over. This trailer also shows the title of the movie at the end. I like how they timed this trailer. My movie trailer is only 30 seconds long instead of 2:11mins, but I can still use similar timing in my trailer.

Every time I watch this movie trailer I get goosebumps. It creeps me out and that's what I love about it. I don't want to see a scary movie if I don't feel scared during the movie trailer. I want my movie trailer to have the same creepy, scary, goosebump effect.