Post Filming Evaluation

On the day, filming seemed to go quite well. We split up where we could to film different parts of our trailor and managed to get most of what we needed. However, when we got back to school to edit, we have realised that we haven't planned our trailor that well and we still need to film more parts to bulk out our trailor as it seems to not have much in it at the moment.

     Ella suggested that we don't need new scenes, but we do need the same shots from different angles. I think this could work as it gives us more to work with, but at the same time, we probably wont use them all anyway and will still need different things in the trailor. We now have a problem as we have not got that long, but Megan, our actress has gone to Poland for half a week, as has Laura. Also, finding the time to film is hard as we have to rely on Megan. This week we have to sort out fully when we are next filming and exactly what it is that we are filming so that we can get everything together as soon as possible.

     We have also had trouble with our music as when we played it whith what we had edited so far, we didn't like it at all, so we have had to start again with that. On the up-side, I am glad we have done this as we have thought more carefully about our music and it is a lot better than our previous creation. Also, it means that we are making the music and the trailor to fit well with eachother. This is different to making one and then the other to fit as they are both being made to fit eachother, allowing the music and trailor to flow more smoothly together.

     In class on Wednesday, we were discussing how to make a scene with some footprints more obvious. Amara wanted to have it so that Megan bent down and touched the footprints, but Ella and I said that that wasn't natural, and she isn't a detective. We ended up having to film on my phone what it would look like so that we could decide. In the end, we decided that a ground shot of Megan walking in would be good, as then we could see both her and the footprints in the same shot, but she wouldn't have to bend down and look at them.

In the shot above, we spent a long time sorting out the lighting of this shot as we didn't want it to look like broad day light as it is a horror/thriller and at the same time we needed enough light to make sure that we filmed in good enough quality. Overall I liked the effect that we ended up with because we ended up with eery light which works well with our genre and should make the trailer more exciting for our audience.

Another thing that we decided to do which worked well was film some scenes - for example when Mia is having a nightmare- on a tilt because we wanted the audience to feel the same discomfort that Mia (our character) was feeling. This discomforting feeling works well because it allows the audience to relate to Mia and also adds to our thriller genre.