Storytelling unit - 'Soft' trailer

As part of our 'The meeting'-project we were asked to make a trailer for the short film 'Soft', directed by Simon Ellis. The task was to make a 1-2 minutes long trailer, using moment and clips that would sell the film.

I watched a lot of trailers to get inspiration and ideas for my edit, but found it hard to make an interesting trailer for a 14 minutes short film without giving too much away.

Soft - Trailer from Trine Hagan on Vimeo.

I'm quite pleased how the edit turned out, but I feel that the pace might be a bit too fast towards the end. I tried to solve it in various ways, but felt I was lacking in clips and didn't manage to find any god ways to solve the problem with the pace.

I spent a long time finding some music that would fit the trailer and I'm pretty happy how the audio turned out. In the beginning I was thinking of using music with vocals, inspired by the new trailer for 'Logan', and was thinking of using 'How you remind me' by Nickelback, but found it too fast and "loud" since I wanted to use a lot of dialogue. I therefore ended up using 'Before The Dawn' by Thomas Vo and Todd Burner as i found it more fitting.

I found this assessment harder than i thought it would be, but it was fun. It also made me a bit worried for when I'm going to edit the trailer for ASHORE as I'm not sure how I'll be able to edit a 2 minutes trailer without spoiling the entire film...