Trailer Evaluation

During this assignment I realized that having more footage is better than having less. I also realized that when we do our pre-production we should plan do have lots of shots to take so that during the post production we have a vast variety to choose from.

I think the shots that we have are excellent, I think the ideas we set out to do for the shots worked out well, the lighting in our shots are excellent as well, which we are surprised by because we never used any special lighting effects. However the acting was the downside in our trailer, as it lacked talent. (surprisingly)

We work exceptionally well as a group, because all tasks and all the things we wanted to do was completed to the best of our ability. Once again, it was a surprise because during half way through our pre-production we were told that a member of our group was no longer on the course, so we had to change most paper work, but I think we bounced back well.

I will take more shots and spend more time on perfecting shots instead of cancelling out on doing that shot. I will plan on having more shot types, I think next time we will record footage in different locations or maybe record the same scene but in a different location just to have more footage to work with.

I think our trailer compared to proper movie trailers looks a bit cheap, I think the reason for that would be because they use better equipment as in camera’s and computer software. However I think the way our trailer is constructed and the way the trailer is set out is at a good standard.

Almost finished

Things in our group turned out surprisingly well, we thought we would struggle because it was just Martin and I, but it turned out that we actually work very well together.

As far as the filming goes, we are almost finished, we still need one or two more extra scenes till we could start editing.
I think us finishing early works to our advantage because our trailer is going to need lots of editing, because of all the sound tracks and special features we are going to be using.

We are happy with our filming so far as it is everything we wanted it to be.
The only downside on our filming is that the acting isn't top class, but it does the job.
I think the hardest part we came across so far was the chase or running away scene, which other class members had to help us with.

We also have way more footage on our tape because we nevere recorded over all the partys we never wanted as we usually did.
Hopefully we would start editing soon.

A change

Our group just came from half term and we havce decided to make a few adjustments to the trailer.

• Our first adjustment is changing our trailer name from RING to THE CALL3R.
• For the secong change we decided to not make it a foreign film, because we thoughht it would be too complicated.
• We also had to change our script because Tom King is no longer in our group.

We have to put in a little more effort into doing this trailer because we are now one man short.

But atleast we can moveon and get done with everything and not be delayed by anything.

Yesterday we completed our treatment.
At first we had many debates on what name to go for.
We finally all agreed on the name RING.
We also decided that the film will be a foreign film.
Otherwise i think the completion of our treatment ran smoothley.

I think our idea of doing our trailer in a foreign language is very original and unique.

Today was the day for us to work.

We struggled to come up with a name for our trailer. But we finally came up with the name I KNOW WHAT YOU DID NOT LAST SUMMER, BUT THE SUMMER BEFORE.
We decided to be a bit creative and do the trailer in a foreign language.
The film is about three guys that go on a holiday and find themselves being stalked and threatened to be killed.

We are hoping to be finished with most our pre production work by the end of the day.
I completed the first minutes sheet, and will soon be busy completing our treatment.

Workshop Exercise

We finally got a chance to swop our script. We swopped ours with stausrt Chapman and Joe dyson.

The story was about a hippy that gets stoned on weed.
The scipt we got from their group was honestly the worst piece of work i ever came accross,
Firstly most of the requirements we were asked to produce, they never came up with for example the different shot types etc....
trying to follow the storyboard and scipt was very challenging because of the poor dialogue, and poor picture illustation
we really had a tough time during the editing, putting the puzzles together because after every scene Joe and Stuart laughed or giggled or made an uneccessary comment which we had to cut.
But at the end we got to the end of our task on time and it turned out to be not as bad as we thought. .

Workshop exercise

Today we finished of our treatment , and fixed up our storyboard so that it could be more human like.

We haven't swopped our script and storyboard with anyone yet and we also havent recieved someone elses yet.

I did everything basically but mainly did the script by myself the treatment i was helped by Tom King and the story board i was helped by Martin Ladd.

I think everything worked well and we finished more or less on time.