completing the trailer

after extracting the remaining music and speech samples from my trailer, it was time to assemble the whole project. I did this in Garage Band, by selecting the piece of audio i want to use, and dragging it to its correct position on one of the tracks. I faced several challenges here however, the length of the production was an issue for me, as after listening to several example trailers online, i discovered that the trailer needed to be kept short and sweet inn order to grab the listeners attention and make them want o come and see the film. I also decided not to use too much music in my production, in order to allow the listener to be able to focus on the speech and really get a feel for what the film was about.

radio advert

I have began to construct the radio advert for the second subsidiary project I began by recording several new voice overs to replace the ones form my trailer. This was necessary because although I tried to share resources, with my trailer, many of the announcer clips referred to visual elements on the screen, so i had to reword them in order to convey the same message to a radio audience.

webiste production

i have embedded the trailer into my website and added various still images to my site. I chose images from my trailer that had various dark background colours, as they fitted in nicely with both the mood of my site and my trailer. i used green text on a black background in order to make the site appear to fit within some of the connotations of an action movie site It also gives the trailer some of the connotations of the science fiction genre.. I extracted my images by saving them as stills and placing them into my verbiage.

start of webiste prodcution

i have began to create my web page for my project I have created stills form m trailer to sue as stills for my web page, I also choose a dark background and green teat, as this not only fits within the stylings one would expect for an action movie, but also fits well within the genre for my film. I now plan to embed the trailer into my web page.

changes and things that went wrond druing procuion,

during the production of my trailer, several things had to be changed. in this post, i will document these changes and explain why they happened. Firstly it was impossible to get the scenes to be perfectly matched with their original script versions. this is partly due to the fact that we were very limited with regards to the timing we had to shoot the scenes, as was the case with the office scene, or we found it difficult to obtain the correct props, such as we couldn't find a briefcase for my main character for when he was talking to his boss on the phone. Another major change that was made was that we replaced the scenes that has the main character and the security guard running down hallways, with more varied chase sequences, such as the shots going into the lift and the more varied outdoor scenes. This was done because too many scenes of people running down corridors would have made the trailer less interesting for the viewers and would have also slowed the pace down quite considerably. As part of this, i also decided not to shoot the scone that involves the actor emerging from a cupboard of some description, as this would have proven extremely difficult to shoot, and i felt my time would be better spent focusing on other, more important shots. I also changed the confrontation scene that was originally due to take place in an office to directly in front of the villains super computer, and removed the scene in which the main character steals the computer program and is confronted by the scientist, as I felt this gave too much of the films narrative away. Finally, I had a slight problem shooting the scene by candlelight, as due to the fact the the college I'm at is incredibly small, had to sue the two actors who played the main character and security guard in this scene as the tow civilians listening to the portable radio. I also had to lower my expectations with regards to the prop list. an example of this is that we could no find a uniform for the guards or a briefcase for the main character. this is partly due to the fact that we have no production budget and partly due to the fac that other props on the list would be very difficult to come by.

final edit and music

I have finished puting the ifnal peices of footage into my blog and editing it down to the correct sixe. This was not nearly as challenging as the other edits that i have done, namely because it was much more obvious as to which footage was nessessary for the production, wheras choosing the best footage had previously been a difficult descion. I also choose my three peices of music for my production, the first peice of music was desinged to intrigue the viewer and build up suspense, as it is played durign the beggining of the trailer when we find out th baisc primeis of the film. the second peice of music and played drung the action sequences, so it is desinged to assist in the job of helping to excite the viewer. the final peice of music has a ver similar purpose to the second one, except that it is played during the climx of the trailer and so is sligltly slower.

final shooting

I have finished the shooting of my trailer. This was completed when we shot the final sequences at night that show my main character entering the base. We decided to change several scenes here, as the ideas for scenes that i had originally would have made the trailer too slow. This would have been a major problem for viewers, as action movies tend to excite the viewer, so having a slow and boring trailer would have done exactly the opposite. Disguising our Media studies classroom as the villains lair was also a challenging endeavour, but this was accomplished y typing a massive ream of nonsense into PowerPoint. this may seem silly and pointless, but when the presentation was run on the large monitor that is in our classroom and the lights were switched off, the monitor looked much more convincing in its role as a computer that cold bring down the national grid! the green ambient light that this monitor gave off also helped my trailer, as it increased the threatening connotations that made the scene realistic.