Things we found challenging during the production and editing of our horror trailer (BLEAK HILL LANE):

• Consistancy. - We found this hard as we filmed over a number of different days, and were filming in someones house. This meant the we had to keep setting up the rooms in the way we wanted them and putting them back once we had finished. Due to the different schedules of the actors we were forced to set up the rooms on various different days which enforced the problem of consistancy. In order to insure that the rooms looked the same through out the trailer we took a fair amount of pictures and followed the details in the images every time we set up. Another problem we came across was costume, as we filmed on different days we had some actors that were needed on more then one occasion meaning that we needed them in the same clothes. We takled this problem again by taking pictures of all the actors after the first filming session and making sure that they looked the same on the other days of filming. Also ensuring that they brought the right clothing with them each time we filmed. If they were wearing a coat in one scene we made sure that it made logical sense to why they weren't wearing one in the next shot on the trailer. This sometimes meant shooting extra footage which may not have made it to the trailer itself. 
• Another problem we came across was the initial car scenes that we wanted to have. Originally we wanted to have an establishing shot of a car driving past and then shoot a conversation involving sex in the car, as it is well known that sex equals death in horror films. However we were faced with the problem that it was raining when we went to shoot this scene. This made it difficult of us to film as we needed to hold a umberella over the camera whislt filming meaning that in some shots the umberella peared in veiw. Another problem we had where the local people jogging, people would get into the shot making it un-usable. When filming the conversation in the car we found it difficult to work out where to position the camera, as placing the camera on the dash board at the front of the car made a camera angle that neither of the directors were happy with. This lead to us shooting the conversation through the car window. This scene did not make it into our horror trailer as when editing we decided that this scene looked too amiture and we were not completely happy with it. Another car scene that didnt make it was the car not starting, this was due to the car actually starting everytime we filmed it, as well as the change of light, we filmed this section at a different time to the rest so the day light was darker and the two clips didnt seem to link. Also we later noticed that we got the 'tikwando' in shot and therefore lost the sense of isolation that we originally wanted. Due to these things this scene was also cut. 
• The camera itself caused a few problems for us as its battery did not last as long as we would have liked it to, leading to us having to stop the filming, wait for it to charge and then continuing, by which time the actors may have had to leave. 
• We also came across some problems as we realised that some of the ideas we had written down on paper and on our storyboards didnt work quite like we thought and didnt seem as effective as we wanted to. This lead to us taking out some shots that we planned and adding in adittional ones that were not planned. 
•  It proved difficult for us to film the teddy bear scenes as each time we wanted to show the teddy dropping and therefore had to lower it manualy. This came to be a problem as we needed to try and not show the actors body whilst they were lowering it.
• When editing we came across problems such as having too much of the same actor at one time, this had to therefore be changed with the order of the trailer. Also we had some problems with the original layout of the trailer as we had changed certain scenes whilst filming which lead to a different out come then we originally planned. Choosing what we wanted in the trailer and what we wasnt going to use also became difficult for us as we liked alot of the shots that we took however not all of them made sense when placed together.
• The sound design of the trailer seemed challenging also as we originally wanted to put music box noise half way through the trailer, but when doing so we realised that our intentions weren't clear to an audience that didnt already know our inital idea. We then decided to put the music box sound on as soon as the flash back began and then play the same sound backwards after in order to show it had been distorted. however we were then faced with the problem of not having sound at the beginning half of the trailer. We therefore took out all of the sound and added the soundtrack to 'Dead Silence', which proved to work well with the trailer as a whole. Another problem we also had with the sound was the screams, some of the screams didn't sound as good as others which led to cutting the sound from some scenes and importing it to others. Also cutting out the swearing became a challenge as we still wanted to keep some of the audio on certain scenes, for example Faye's bussing sequence in the mirror and her 'What the f..' it proved difficult to cut the swear word yet keep the 'f' sound in order to give the intention of shock we wanted.
• Some scenes we wanted to change the order to which seemed to prove difficult, for example we tried to have Faye turn around see that nothing was there, look in the mirror and the girl be standing there. However this went against our original idea when filming and due to this the camera angles didnt match up in order for us to change the order effectively. We therefore kept it as or initial sequence of her looking in the mirror, the girl appearing and then Faye turning and the girl being gone.
• Another thing that challeneged us was making our cuts longer as we enjoyed razor blading our trailer in order to give it an edgy tough to it. This was the 'emo of editing' technique as our teacher liked to call it. This proved effective but also produced more problems for us when we wanted to slow a scene down and had to slow down every fragment of the scene in razor bladed cuts, as this slowed down our editing.
• Through out the whole editing process we continuosly showed our trailer to other members of our media class as well as other teachers, students and staff, in order to give us an idea of how some one who didnt already know our intentions would react to our trailer. Each time we asked for critisism and then worked on the comments we got.