Inspiration

This is a trailer for a new TV series which uses an effect we would love to use in our own trailer. Different faces of pretty girls appear, they start off happy and smiling and then slowly their face loses colour and their expression changes to sadness, fear or pain. Writing that looks like it has been scratched into their skin appears on different parts of their face like their forehead, cheek or eyelids.

We think that the contrast of the pale skin looks really effective with the scratch marks. The words that appear also reveal a secret about each specific girl so we could this effect to reveal a little bit of the narrative of our trailer. We can make our actress look distressed as this secret she is holding is hanging over her.

In order to make this work, we need to play around with the editing or the way we shoot it, which means we would have to use effective make up, draw a few bits of the word, film, stop, draw some more letters, film, stop and so on. We will play around with this effect so that we can make it look as effective as possible to the audience.