"What's in the bag?" "Ninja Stuff"

The props that we were using on the 17th on November were a pair of 'Sai'. (These are sharp, ninja sh*t). And we had to walk to our location which was about 15-20 minutes walk away. We weren’t feeling nervous about carrying dangerous weapons down a busy street until we saw a police man walking towards us. Luckily all the Ninja stuff was in a bag and they didn’t seem to care about a couple of shifty teenagers walking down the street with a thin bag that could only be used for weapons.

Your taxes at work people.

Filming on the 17th of November

On the 17th of November I went out and filmed a few more sequences for my trailer. As the other actors involved in the film had prior commitment they were unable to film on this date, so I decided to film more of the ‘Kev’ character. This involved him running away from and unseen threat and a short smoking sequence.

When doing this sequence we were shooting at about 3pm. This meant that the sun was going down and effected the direction in which we could film in. when setting up the shot we had to make sure that the shadow of the cameraman could not be seen. Another problem that we ran into as the amount of takes and variations that we had/wanted to do in the smoking scene, this meant that the cigarette was burning too quickly when we were waiting to set up the different shots, so we had to use about 4 or 5 full cigarettes in a very short space of time.

My lungs felt like they had gone through a cheese grater.

changing the titles

I needed to change the title in my film trailer as the font was boring and didn’t have an impact. When doing this I went through a lot of the fonts and pick one that looked the most interesting and after changing the comments from reviews I came to the title of the film in which I found a new font to really make it stand out and improve my film trailer.

Editing Cont.

In editing my second cut I found that there are a lot of shots that are much too long, causing the production to become too long for a film trailer. I need to film a few more shots so that I can inter-cut some more shots so that it breaks up the sequence to make it seem more like a teaser trailer and not a 'pay off trailer'.

First cut feed back

This is the first cut of my film trailer. The feedback that got the first cut was very positive. Everybody seemed to like the trailer and all said that it work to show enough to seem like a trailer and not a short film. They also said that with the humour and props used it reaches my demographic.
The things that need to be changed and improved to help this trailer gain a higher grade is the dialogue. It’s seemed to be too quiet and sometimes hard to hear. To solve this problem I will A.D.R most if not all the dialogue, this will help the audience be able to hear all of the line clearly.
Another thing that needed to be changed was the titles that are put throughout the trailer. This is because they were all in the same font and when the title of the Film comes up it needed more impact so I have to change the font of the writing.
An overall comment given was “you’ve handled the combination of horror to comedy quite successfully. Pity the dialogue is not clear. Don’t hold back, you can be quite outrageous in a trailer.”