Film - Trailer Filming with my villian actor

I did filming 2 days ago with my actor Jack and I got a few shots with him with a weapon, with these shots I have used them to fill in the part where it was needed. After this I will only need one more filming sessions before my film will be nearly complete.

Film trailer - Filming (4)

I have planned to get a camera on tuesday to go out filming with Jack to fill in one of my scenes because I have a lot of frees on tuesday I also plan to get most of the clips that I have film edited.

Film trailer - Filming (3)

On Friday I will be borrowing a camera from my teacher to go filming on Saturday to shoot a few more enviromental shots and with some of my actors.

Film trailer - Editing (1)

I have done additional filming with my two characters that are acted by Jamie and Kyle, with these I have replcaed a few parts on the story board, so far this session of filming I have filled in 30% of my film storyboard, I have also got some enviromental shots.

Film trailer - Dialogue

For my trailer I will not have dialogue as I think that the sound that will be recorded on the camera will not be good so I am going to have a narration for parts of my trailer as I do not intended just to have no dialogue

Film trailer - Filming (2)

I plan on doing more filming on a tuesday after school so that when we arrive to our location it will start becoming dark but if my actors can't do it on a tuesday after school I will have to arrange it on either wednesday or thursday.

Film trailer - Environment shots

Environment shots

For my environment shots I have mostly used trees and things hanging onto them, I think these are suitable for my trailer so far and combined with the sound effect that I can add to make them visually look better, Although for some of those shots I can reshoot so that the tree is moving.

Film trailer - Setting

Setting

The setting of my film trailer is dark and are mostly recorded when it is dark but some shots are in the day as I think that my trailer will need some shots with light in it because having day and night shows continuity.

Film trailer - Props

Props

For my props I am deciding to get a prop knife as I think that this weapon would suit a murderer and also I might get fake blood to put onto the knife and use it to make like someones bleeding, some other props that I have considered to use are masks.

Film trailer - Edditing

This is the editing that I have used thus far and I have planned on a few others.

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Transitions -

• For most of my transitions I have used 'Fade to black' as I think that it is the most suitable transitions for my trailer. 
• Some other transition effects that I have considered is the 'Cross dissolve' and 'Cross blur' as I think those can fit correctly in my trailer because the way that they are transitioned its not flashy therefor it does not take away tension.

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Video effects:

• I have used 'Day into night' as a video effect to make one of my clips look darker, I have used this effect because it made the clip darker which suits the horror theme
• I have used 'Flipped' on one of my clips because it seemed better when it was flipped, it showed better detail of the environment.

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Film trailer - Music / Sound effects

Music / Sound effects

The music that I have chosen for my trailer is from a website that is not copy righted so it was fine to use the music that I have chosen on that website. I think that the music I have chosen fits my trailer correctly.

List of the current songs so far:

• Giant Wyrm - Giant Wyrm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• Bent and Broken - Bent and Broken Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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List of sounds effect that I will use:

• Thunder sounds
• Walking on leafs
• Footsteps
• Wind sounds
• Rain sounds
• Screaming

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Changes to the Music/Sound effects:

• Instead of using Giant Wyrm that I have listed to use will probably change as I am changing up my stories pacing to be faster so I will have to use music that will suit a fast paced trailer

Film trailer - Filming (1)

I will still require more shots with the camera and I am planning to get a camera off my teacher and go shoot on a friday as I have consecutive frees when I can do filming to finish off my trailer.

Film trailer - Locations

Locations

For my location I have chosen Tower grounds as it had an area with a lot of trees around which is what I needed in my film trailer. Some other locations I have in mind is the Cemetery as I think that it will be fitting in my film trailer, also some other buildings that I have considered to film are a Church.

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Adjustments to locations:

Film trailer - Storyboard

For my storyboard I have drafted it from IMovie because it allows you to put in each scene and lets you decide how long they are and shows how long it is overall so when I finish my filming I can swap it in place with each of the frames and it also allows me to preplan the music and text / transitions that I am going to use in the trailer.

Film trailer - Actors

My actors for the trailer will be:

Jack Kelly - My main villian

Jamie Pears - One of the three characters

Kyle Dos Santos - One of the three characters

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Film Trailer - Horror

Chosen genre - Horror

I have chosen the genre horror as it is not too hard to create a low budget horror trailer as it requires little CGI for a low budget horror trailer, most of the conventions in a horror trailer are blood, dark atmosphere and isolation, the thrill of a horror trailer is not just done through the camera the music has a big role in the thrill of the trailer as it builds up tension for the audiences. There are lots of indie horror movies that can be taken as an style model with all the conventions on it and is on a low budget so it can be easily followed.

Film trailer

Trailer

I have chosen to do a trailer for a movie, as I already have researched some trailers before and how they can impact the film's success. By having an interesting trailer that does not spoil the film attracts the audience as they will want to see what is going on, especially for an low budget trailer as they have little to no fan base.

Prelim Music Video - Finished video

Prelim Music Video - Weakness

Weaknesses of the video

The weakness of our video would be the location where we mainly used the areas around the school to take our shots and it could of been improved with different locations that would of suited the location better, and the lip syncing was not good so it could of been improved with more practice, we could of also looked for better actors that can act and lip sync better.

We took a recording of the sky in the morning therefor it had no stars which can be improved upon by taking a picture of a night sky with stars which will fit in more into the music video.

Prelim Music Video - Strengths

Strengths

For the strengths of our video we had good shots of the piano with different angles and found out which one was the most effective shot for our video and it suited the video well, also the effect suited the piano part making it look good.

Prelim Music video - Chosen song

Chosen song - A sky full of star

We have chosen this song because the video had things that can be replicated quite easily as it uses some equipments that are already available to us, such as the piano as we had one in the school hall that was suitable for our music video. Also the lyrics could be matched with the video accordingly as it talks about the sky and for our video we took a picture of the sky so it suited, however one thing that could of been improved on the sky would be when its at night where it would be stars so it would be more suitable for song.

Prelim Music video - Location

Chosen locations

We have chosen the hall for because it had a piano that we needed in our video, and we did the outside sky for a part of the video but it could of been a night sky to improve our video as it will show stars and will match the prelim music video better and the other locations are done in the school.

Trailer conventions

Film title
Film tittles are always in the trailer in order to let the audience know what the film is called and so that they already have an interest in the film, the fonts for the title usually reflect the genre of the movie or the tone of the film. an example of this would be in a horror movie trailer the font would be dark and bleak.

Social media
A recent convention or film trailers is to add links to their social media accounts, this can be a link to their twitter or facebook and is used for people who have watched the trailer and wants to learn more about the film. social media is also used for in order to tell people about the trailer and when the film is coming out, spreading the word to millions of people on their websites.

Character introductions
A crucial feature of trailers is to introduce the characters in the movie to a unfamiliar audience this is essienctial for the film as the audience must be able to relate to the characters in the movie for example by showing a character have a realistic reaction to events in the movie grounds them and makes them more down to earth, additionally if a well known actor or actress is in the movie they will already have a fanbase and said fanbase would likely go and see their new movie this can also apply to directors.

Music and voice covers
Music is a big part of trailers as they show the genre, pace and sometimes even budget of the film for example a well known artist could be asked to produce a soundtrack for a movie and this would in turn let the audience know of the size of the movie and speicificly its budget this could then attract an audience that thinks that a bigger budget helps make a better movie although this is not always the case.

Voice actors