Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Feedback on trailer progress 2
From the feedback I collected on wall wisher, it shows that it definitely improved from the first draft but to improve it further, suggestions such as making certain scenes shorter and choppier to make it more conventional and to add on screen text to make the plot of the film clearer.
From that I decided to make certain scenes shorter and to come up with effective on screen text which would explain the plot better but not give it all away.
Claudia and I watched existing horror-thriller film trailers for inspiration.
From that I decided to make certain scenes shorter and to come up with effective on screen text which would explain the plot better but not give it all away.
Claudia and I watched existing horror-thriller film trailers for inspiration.
Monday, 12 November 2012
Production Diary: Day 8
12th November 2012
As we managed to get new footage last friday, we decided to improve our first draft of our film trailer accordingly to the comments received from our target audience. We decided to cut out some scenes which seemed unnecessary for the trailer even though they would have worked in the film and changed the fast paced scenes to give it a more climatic ending. Now that the second draft is complete, we can get more feedback to see what else we can improve on.
As we managed to get new footage last friday, we decided to improve our first draft of our film trailer accordingly to the comments received from our target audience. We decided to cut out some scenes which seemed unnecessary for the trailer even though they would have worked in the film and changed the fast paced scenes to give it a more climatic ending. Now that the second draft is complete, we can get more feedback to see what else we can improve on.
Friday, 9 November 2012
Production Diary: Day 7
9th November 2012
From the feedback we received on our first draft we decided on which scenes to cut and what new scenes we want to film to give the ending of the trailer a more climatic feel. We watched a lot more existing thriller-horror film trailers to get inspiration and after a few hours of research we decided on specific scenes we will film today.
To make our trailer more climatic, we decided on adding more action of the ghost within the plot to make it clearer what she is doing. We started off at Abi's house and ended up going to Rebecca's due to certain props within her house such as her wardrobe. We had difficulties with the costume due to the wig being left at the last location but luckily Rebecca had one similar that we could use. Untangling the wig took up valuable time, the situation could have been avoided if we allocated the responsibility of picking up wig to one of us before we left the first location. I was in charge of the camera and partially directing the lighting and position of the actors. I positioned the camera the way I thought would suit the scene best but after filming Abi directed me to film at a different angle. She kept changing her mind on where she wanted the camera even after I said the angle she asked for did not show the actor but she still insisted on using it. From the opinion I gave to Claudia about the lighting seen through the camera I asked her if she could shift the lamp slightly to give a better effect but Abi told Claudia to change the lighting again. It became confusing as I directed Claudia then Abi directed her with something else and as I positioned myself with the camera with what Claudia and I thought was best, Abi directed me to change the angle. It took a lot longer than it should have for the short amount of usable footage we filmed today. We believe one more day of filming should be enough to make our improvements.
From the feedback we received on our first draft we decided on which scenes to cut and what new scenes we want to film to give the ending of the trailer a more climatic feel. We watched a lot more existing thriller-horror film trailers to get inspiration and after a few hours of research we decided on specific scenes we will film today.
To make our trailer more climatic, we decided on adding more action of the ghost within the plot to make it clearer what she is doing. We started off at Abi's house and ended up going to Rebecca's due to certain props within her house such as her wardrobe. We had difficulties with the costume due to the wig being left at the last location but luckily Rebecca had one similar that we could use. Untangling the wig took up valuable time, the situation could have been avoided if we allocated the responsibility of picking up wig to one of us before we left the first location. I was in charge of the camera and partially directing the lighting and position of the actors. I positioned the camera the way I thought would suit the scene best but after filming Abi directed me to film at a different angle. She kept changing her mind on where she wanted the camera even after I said the angle she asked for did not show the actor but she still insisted on using it. From the opinion I gave to Claudia about the lighting seen through the camera I asked her if she could shift the lamp slightly to give a better effect but Abi told Claudia to change the lighting again. It became confusing as I directed Claudia then Abi directed her with something else and as I positioned myself with the camera with what Claudia and I thought was best, Abi directed me to change the angle. It took a lot longer than it should have for the short amount of usable footage we filmed today. We believe one more day of filming should be enough to make our improvements.
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Feedback on trailer progress 1
From the feedback that we collected on wall wisher we have what our target audience thought was good and what could be improved.
"I like how music runs almost all the way through the whole trailer as it creates something like a theme song which would be easily recognised if advertised on tv etc"
"The music gives the trailer an eerie
atmosphere but there are some scenes that are too long which slows the pace
down. It did have some fast paced editing near the end but it as an
anti-climatic feel to it."
"The music used at the end complimented
the action within the clips very well but some scenes seemed so randomly put
together"
"It scenes are randomly put together,
even though the majority of it flows I got slightly confused with the possible
plot of the film"
"Some really good camera angles but the
editing could be more fast paced to give it more of an impending doom
atmosphere"
The majority of the people who gave us feedback
commented on anti-climatic ending, the scenes seeming out of place in certain
places and the fact that the editing could be faster paced. To improve this we
came up with ideas to make it more dramatic at the end. For inspiration, everyone in the group watched existing horror-thriller film trailers.
Storyboards of new scenes:
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Production Diary: Day 6
8th November 2012
Today we finished the first draft of our film trailer by adding the sound, the title of the film at the end and little things like claudia's phone call voiceover.
It was a lot harder than we thought to find suitable music to compliment the actions within our film trailer but we ended up going with a piano melody. We have now uploaded the draft onto youtube and made a wall wisher page asking for feedback as we feel it can definitely improve.
Once we get the a substantial amount of feedback left we can then decide how we could add or take away certain segments to improve our film trailer further.
Today we finished the first draft of our film trailer by adding the sound, the title of the film at the end and little things like claudia's phone call voiceover.
It was a lot harder than we thought to find suitable music to compliment the actions within our film trailer but we ended up going with a piano melody. We have now uploaded the draft onto youtube and made a wall wisher page asking for feedback as we feel it can definitely improve.
Once we get the a substantial amount of feedback left we can then decide how we could add or take away certain segments to improve our film trailer further.
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