Diary Entry of Filming for trailer

As we began our filming, we kept a diary entry of what we achieved in each day

Day 1:
For one of the scenes we needed to film specifically at night. For our location, we chose to use a country lane for the scene. In this scene, it is of where the 3 girls were running away with touches in theyre hands with someone behind them creeping up on them. After this, we then shot another scene where the girls are sitting together in the woods, realising that ellie is missing after a loud scream.

Day 2:
Our next scene was to be shot in the day scene. This scene was where the girls were filmed packing and preparing for their school camping trip in one of the girls rooms. Although we had a problem with the camera angle, so we will need to re-film this section asap.

Day 3:
The next scene was based in school. Filming in the school gave the film a better understanding for the trailer/for the audience, as the girls arrive back at school seeing missing posters of there friend Ellie everywhere. In this scene, I filmed Lydia walking through the corridor, picking up and reading the missing poster. I then filmed Lydia going into a room and the door slamming behind her.

Day 4:
Lydia then filmed in her garden where the weather seemed perfect for the particular scene. As it was dark and rainy I shot the last scene featured in our trailer with the hand with blood on it twitching in the mud and the rain to leave the audience in suspense/horror

Day 6:
We then got together and decided to change some of our trailer (first draft). We changed what our peers did not like about the trailer, such as the lack of voiceover etc. This proved to be a really productive day as we were able to get as much as possible done without doing more filming.

Day 7
In our lesson we decided to film the clip where one of the girls (lydias) hand is covered in blood, dragging down the window of the school door. I filmed this from outside the room. We chose to do this as we thought it'd go well with the previous scene where one of the girls (lydia) walks into a classroom door suspiciously and the door slams behind.
Here is some photographs of us getting ready for the scene



Day 8
We then filmed a scene where one of the girls (kerrie) was in the toilets, with a man (dave) peering over watching her, then kerrie turning round to find no one was there. We shot about 3 of these scenes to get the perfect clip, but overall it worked really well.

Day 9
Next we needed to change the beginning scene of our trailer due to the feedback we received from our target audience. We filmed the close up shots of the girls outside in our lesson. Using moving imagery instead of images gave it a more professional feel as before it didn't flow very well with the rest of the trailer. We also re-filmed the scene in the bedroom where the girls were packing as the camera angle cut off one of the girls heads, making it look unprofessional and messy!

Trailer Feedback

In our groups we showed them the first drafts of our trailers and asked for negative and positive feedback.

Good:
- ending of trailer with the pulsating hand
- locker scene - missing posters
- door slamming effect
- shot at beginning of girls getting ready
- shot of long road: girls running
Bad:
- Too short
- Clips of girls individually instead of photos
- Add in a missing report to the poster
- Include over-voices
- Scream noise - move to different place
- Talking/dialogue not effective enough

Trailer: Imovie

For our group trailer, we chose to use 'IMOVIE' a programme on Mac software. Imovie programme allowed us to cut our clips, add background music, add special effects, sound effects and different transaction effects to each scene. The programme was very suitable for making our trailer.
Example of imovie:


Firstly for our trailer, i added in the clips we were going to use and cut them to desired timings to fit with the trailer. Here is an example of how i trimmed the clips to fit in my trailer:


We then added still images into our trailer, for example the graphics such as the name of the film, when it was out and what production company was etc:


We then added music (digetic and non-digetic) to our trailer where we wanted it to match with the clips, we also added sound effects such as the 'door slamming' to add to moving images as it helped enhance the actions and create suspense/tension for the audience which fitted well with creating our horror genre for our film


After adding the audio to the moving images, we were then able to edit the settings of the music and sound effects. We were able to fade in and out the music to match the scenes and music change, we were also able to add special effects to the audio such as 'muffled' effect. We were also able to control the volume of the music with the background noise, making it so we could hear the music or hear the dialogue at specific times.



We then were able to pick the length of the music by dragging it across underneath the scenes to match the moving images.


We were also able to change the colours in the footage we filmed, we could change the saturation, brightness, sharpness etc.


we were able to include transitions between each slide by choosing from a selection
we mainly used 'cross dissolve' in our trailer


We also added voice overs to the still text on our trailer, we did this by using the record button on IMOVIE where we recorded two people talking. We were also able to change the picth of the dialouge and add different effects to create a more scary effect to fit in with the genre.
Below is an example of how we recorded the voiceovers on IMOVIE



Then, after filming more footage, we found an editing tool where you could change the movement of the camera. We were able to crop/fit the footage to how we wanted it and were also able to change the camera movement to a 'pan' in one of the scenes where the hand grabs the door.
Below is an example of the above


We then changed the begginig of the trailer where the pictures of the girls were placed. We decidede to film the girls individually for 1.3seconds.


We also decided to change the font on the trailer after feedback.


We also included in an extra scene into the trailer and more graphics. The graphics are what you find in a normal film trailer, where a review from, for example the newspaper comes in.



One of our scenes was filmed on a portrait angle, and when uploading it onto imovie, we had a problem as there was a black border around the moving image. To resolve this we used the 'cropping and rotation' tool when we were able to cut and crop the moving image so it had no black border.


We also changed the music at the beginning scene to an acoustic version of 'Teenage Dream' by Katy Perry, as we felt it fitted better within the trailer.


We also re-filmed the scene of the girls in the bedroom as before the camera angle cut off one of the characters heads, therefore making it look unprofessional and lazy.


We then changed the colouring of the name of the film 'Oblivious' as we felt it suited better in a different colour to the rest of the text.

FINAL website

FINAL poster