Editing update:Stutter effect

I used YouTube tutorials as a way of finding cool visual techniques and effects that would make the trailer more conventional to the horror genre. One of the best techniques that I found was the flicker effect. Here is the video:

The reason I chose this effect to use whilst editing my trailer is it would firstly show a profound image, which in my trailer is the image of the creepers first victim, and then it will flicker extremely quickly therefore preventing the viewer from be able to let the image sink in. Why was this effective? It was effective because it would encourage my target audience to watch the trailer more than once. And secondly because it foreshadows what left to come in the trailer. As as the trailer progresses I would finally reveal the full scene.

Here is an example of one of the first images I applied the flicker effect on.

How did I achieve this?

Well it involved me getting a scene and then using the cut tool to split the scenes into individual parts several times. Once I had done this I would then take the cut scenes and space them one after another along the time line, but making sure they are still extremely  close together. What this meant was that by creating a space it would mean the screen would go black, and thus creating the flickering effect.

This links well with the technique used in the saw franchise and in particular there trailers. Where they the flicker effect to disorientate the viewer, because its makes it incredible difficult to grasp the imagery, and as a result it makes it that much scarier.