When I had chosen to make a trailer, I started off with watching a different range of trailers. Ones that use lots of short clips and ones that perhaps used just one long clip as a cliffhanger. When I planned to use the horror genre, I studied not just the trailers old and new but their budget, their success and whether that film has be re-made. As I found it interesting how a different director could take a existing film and change it, make it more modern, more successful and use different forms of conventions to make it more scary. I Googled and used websites to get inspiration and ideas for the ancillary tasks, looking at posters and magazine covers on not just horror films but other genres too, to see if I could work with both and make a unique set of tasks.
I used email on Youtube to ask permission to use the owner of our audio. I used email and text with Tyler (camera man), Matt (actor), Annabel (partner) and others working on the trailer to inform them of and changes in ideas, dates, location changes and any other important information to do with the trailer.
We created a easy to follow questionnaire using Microsoft word as it was quick and easy for us but also simple for the person to fill in. I also used Word to create the risk assessment as that was also something that needed to be kept simple and easy to read, as we also looked back at it now and then. I found using online graph makers was the easiest way to make the pie charts for the questionnaire results as I would put in the information and the graph would would be created for me, I could have used power point but I felt using the online program gave me more control over the options on what my graph would be like.
For the construction we used
two different cameras to film it with, to get different camera angles on the
same shot. When it came to the lighting we in fact used two phone torches, this worked for us as we didn't want our scenes to be bright. If the scenes were that little too dark we knew we could brighten them when editing.
We used Premier to edit which is full of options and effects. As I didn't want our trailer to be heavily edited, I
mainly used the fades, to fade clips in and out and the slow motion settings. It became most useful when coming to audio as you could be really precise on when the diegetic and non diegetic sounds are fading in or out. I could also remove them completely from a certain clip once I had taught myself how to do so. All the audio sounds and music I used were off of the Youtube video mentioned.
Both ancillary tasks were created in Photoshop. We were both familiar with Photoshop so felt this was the best program to use. We used a range of tools, from simply cutting part of a picture to the more tricky job of brightening and removing the background of the magazine front cover, which at first (due to lack of light when shooting) was too dark and untidy for the cover.
We have used this Blog to update our work to show our progress and changes. Even the little Blogs are important. For example when we have an idea and then do the write up of it later when it is complete. I have enjoyed using the Blog as it is easy to access and me and my teachers can look back at the work that I have already done. I can also use the Internet easily for help when posting and create drafts and come back to them in a later date and complete them.
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