Deadline day!

Today is the deadline for our final edited teaser trailer. Our trailer is currently up to scratch and we managed to complete almost everything that we had hoped to do. After a few final touches with editing and sound our trailer will finally be complete.

Below is the stop motion clip that will be included in the trailer, we wanted to use this in order to portray a sense of Scott's schizophrenia. I think that the clips work well in some aspects, however the lighting is  slightly off in comparison to the other clips in which the stop motion will be placed. Hopefully we will be able to edit the lighting within this clip so that it fits in with what we already have.

We were unable to do the split screen that we had planned as when the footage was trimmed and cropped to fit the screens some of the footage was cut away, we didn't want to risk putting it into our trailer as we may get marked down for attention to framing.

Other than these few slight problems I am really pleased with the current stage of our work, the next step will be to begin thinking about film poster and magazine ideas. We have taken many photographs throughout the filming process so hopefully we will be able to use one of these images for our poster and magazine cover.

Credit Fonts

The first text that we found was on a text website, therefore it restricted us from editing it and adding effects to it. We watched more trailers to find some inspiration and settled on the text that we used in our storyboard which is similar to the text in 'Taken', we wanted to be more creative with our credits so on livetype we added the effect of 'frigid' which shakes the text which adds to the pace of the trailer. It also reflects the character, Scott's instability.

Plan of filming

Today, me and Florence are filming some extra pieces to add to the trailer, inspired by the taken trailer we felt it would be interesting to have a triple split screen shot in our trailer. We felt this would be a good idea due to compressing a lot of action into one shot which will add to the fast pace of the trailer.

The triple split screen will consist of:

- A POV shot of Scott looking at his watch and walking over to Grant's approaching car 

- The window of the car winding down

- The handing over of the money 

alternatively if the shots don't flow well we can use:

- Long shot of the back of Tommy against the car

- POV shot going through the money and the window of the car winding down

- The handing over of the money

In these shots the character's faces may not be revealed to the audience to add mystery but this may confuse the audience so we will experiment with this when filming.

Character Voiceovers

One of the final things to do in terms of sound are the voiceovers, we need to record the following:

Scott: 

I ran but running wasn't fast enough, love is a dangerous thing when put in the wrong hands (opening of the trailer)

Grant: 

7pm sharp (during phone call)

Filming and Editing Updates

After watching through our trailer we have found that the following things are missing that we had put in initially;

1. We found that there is discontinuity between two shots where our character Scott answers the phone and in the next shot when he is dropping the phone where he has switched hands.

2. Sound - We still need to insert our protagonist Scott's voiceover as well as Grant's dialogue for the phone call.

3. The triple split screen of the exchange of money and the plan to kill Layla in which there will either be:

- A POV shot of Scott looking at his watch and walking over to Grant's approaching car 

- The window of the car winding down

- The handing over of the money 

alternatively if the shots don't flow well we can use:

- Long shot of the back of Tommy against the car

- POV shot going through the money and the window of the car winding down

- The handing over of the money

In these shots the character's faces may not be revealed to the audience to add mystery but this may confuse the audience so we will experiment with this when filming.

Titles and Finishing Touches

We experimented with titles and after having a play around on live type we decided on some suitable titles which match the pace of the film and genre, all that needs to be done is adding in one more shot and our music which Alexis Skitini a DJ will send to me today we will be able to add alongside another song which we feel was suitable.

Screening feedback

Today we had a screening of our trailer at the stage that it is at now, we were also given the opportunity to veiwother students work and reflect on what they have done. We were given feedback sheets of everything that they thought was good and bad about our trailer so far.

Many people commented on the variety of shots that we used, saying that thhis was a good feature of our trailer. Somebody commented that the lighting in the tunnel was a lot darker compared to when he was on the platform. This is something that we have already disscused and we have decided that we will refilm this scene, however the scenes that are currently missing are of more of a priority to us. Most of the groups commented that the use of our titles was particularly strong and worked well with the genre and plot of the trailer. An obvious improvement suggested by all of the groups was to add sound, this is defiantly something we are working on and we aim to get this done as soon as possible.