Cutting Horror Trailers with Patricio Hoter

So I'd like to try something weird, if that's okay.

All right.

So I'm not an editor, but recently I cut a promo for my new sound design label, Concussion Protocol, where I kind of would like to tell you what I did as a hobbyist with no formal training and just kind of see what you think about the process.

And maybe it's something you can give some insight on that might help some aspiring trailer editors.

Sure.

That makes sense.

All right, so the first thing I wanted to do was I wanted to rip some trailers from YouTube and start doing that.

And then I was like, oh, there's going to be infringement and takedowns.

And it's like, all right, I don't want to do that.

So I started pulling from public domain films like Night of the Living Dead and Laser Mission, all the stuff you can find on the Internet Archive website.

So then I clipped a bunch of fun and gross scenes and I put them into iMovie because I was like, I just want this to be super basic.

I don't want to deal with too many layers.

And then I cut down all the scenes to try to make it punchy and flow.

Cut it to about 90 seconds.

No audio.

Then I pulled that 90 seconds.

I put it into Logic.

That's just what I'm used to working in.

I'm not really a composer, but that's just like an audio editing workstation that a lot of people use.

So then I made a pad and an atmosphere layer.

And then I started pulling sound design from my catalog because that's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to showcase the sound design from my catalog.

Which was actually super challenging for me because I had never done that.

So, I mean, that's something I want to talk to you about a little bit later.

It was difficult because I had never, like, gone through a client portal and started using tags and keywords to pull sounds and, like, figure out, like, what sounds work for what scenes.

So I'd like to try something weird, if that's okay.

All right.

So I'm not an editor, but recently I cut a promo for my new sound design label, Concussion Protocol, where I kind of would like to tell you what I did as a hobbyist with no formal training and just kind of see what you think about the process.

And maybe it's something you can give some insight on that might help some aspiring trailer editors.

Sure.

That makes sense.

All right, so the first thing I wanted to do was I wanted to rip some trailers from YouTube and start doing that.

And then I was like, oh, there's going to be infringement and takedowns.

And it's like, all right, I don't want to do that.

So I started pulling from public domain films like Night of the Living Dead and Laser Mission, all the stuff you can find on the Internet Archive website.

So then I clipped a bunch of fun and gross scenes and I put them into iMovie because I was like, I just want this to be super basic.

I don't want to deal with too many layers.

And then I cut down all the scenes to try to make it punchy and flow.

Cut it to about 90 seconds.

No audio.

Then I pulled that 90 seconds.

I put it into Logic.

That's just what I'm used to working in.

I'm not really a composer, but that's just like an audio editing workstation that a lot of people use.

So then I made a pad and an atmosphere layer.

And then I started pulling sound design from my catalog because that's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to showcase the sound design from my catalog.

Which was actually super challenging for me because I had never done that.

So, I mean, that's something I want to talk to you about a little bit later.

It was difficult because I had never, like, gone through a client portal and started using tags and keywords to pull sounds and, like, figure out, like, what sounds work for what scenes.