Making My Trailer - Adding Transitions

When creating my trailer, it seemed helpful to me to include some transitions in the trailer. I used cross dissolves, dip to black and dip to white all to signify certain aspects of the trailer to make the audience feel a certain way when watching.

I used cross dissolves in the trailer to make the editing process seem less harsh. When I used them between my second and third shot it created the effect of an action match between the pan of the houses and the dancing of my actress. This helped the beginning of the trailer to look smoother and ensured that it would not be dramatic at the beginning, which would have not gone with the 'feel good' genre of my film.

The dip to white creates a feeling to happiness and hope. I wanted to do this as I thought it would help to portray to the audience something that the protagonist loves. For example, I used the dip to white mainly on shots of her when she was dancing, this to show to the audience that it is her favourite thing to do.

The other transition that I used in the trailer was the dip to black. I used this in the opposite way to dip to white, to create unhappiness and tension between the characters in the next scene. I have mainly used this when I am moving from a happy shot to a more tense shot of two people arguing. I have done this to show the audience how the characters are feeling, this is because black connotes a feeling of unhappiness and despair.