Our Teaser - First Draft

This is the first draft of our teaser trailer:

SHOOTING+Shot Log

This videos explains soem of teh problems we encountered while on set and also our blooper real. Enjoy :) Once we had finished our shooting, we logged all the shots we had to help when we edited our footage:

Music and Jamendo

We looked throught the site Jamendo to find copyright free music to have as the soundtrack to our teaser. To appeal to our target audience and help create the a party atmosphere, we decided to use Dubstep. Here are our top three choices: 1 Way 2 Paradise:
01 1 Way 2 Paradise

Futurance
01 Futurace

Halleluyah
02 Hallelujah

In the end, we decided to use a mixture of "Hallelujah" and "1 Way 2 Paradise" to mark the change in mood mid-way through the teaser. Ama mixed them together on Garage Band.

Camera Shot Research in Popular TV

After learning about some interesting and unconventional filming techniques in my media lessons, I started to notice them more in popular television such as Soap Operas. This was a great opportunity for me to evaluate how these techniques worked in reality and whether they would be suited to my teaser trailer.

This our the clips I discuss:
1.03 - 1.08


0.43 - 1.08 and 2.37 - 2.51

Second Website Analysis

Shoot Planning

To keep in contact with our actors and arranged when to shoot, we thought it would be easiest to use Facebook as it has a facility to email many people at once and see everyones replies:

We also noted everyones contact details and made a timetable of when they had free periods and were able to shoot:

Filming Problems and Solutions

On our shots through November, we had a lot of trouble with the reliability of our cast. Two of our actors did not turn up to the shoots we organised on time, leading to a delay. As we were set strict time limits by the site manager at our location, this meant we did not film a couple of our shots on the 8th and 11th of November. To overcome this problem,we had to use a body double, a friend who had come to the shoot to have their hand on camera, pretending to be the hand of the actor.

We also had to think on our feet to make the best of the actors we had availible. It was nessisary to add two extra filming days to our plan during school Christmas holidays.
These are:
22nd December
23rd December