EVALUATION FOR THE TRAILER

What do you feel is the most important area of learning that you have taken from this assignment? Look at all the production stages and ask your self which areas of this assignment have given you a new way of thinking or approaching you future projects.

I think the most important area of my learning is working well with my fellow team mates, Gary and me. I have learnt to listen and have a really good input in my ideas. So the most important thing is team work. But too much work can cause distress so with my team I aim us to work hard and play hard to get that balance. So we can have fun in our projects and think positively.

From your finished project what parts are you most happy with? With the same level of consideration what areas do you feel you need to improve on?

I am pleased with the production work for our trailer as Gary and I have learnt from our mistakes that from Frank And Nigel our shots were abysmal, so from that we wanted good shots and a great mix of CU’S and OSS’s. But I am really pleased with our efforts towards our editing which we done really well with and are happy with it, we got our knowledge from other horror trailers and put them towards our own trailer, we added fast clips and originality to the colour of the clips. I put 100% in the trailer.

How well do you think you and your group worked in achieving all the goals that were set by the assignment brief?

I think we did very well in achieving our goals, we knew what we had to do and we were successful in our assignments, we had a head start in the editing and we done a good job. And I think I performed well in the assignments in editing and production.

What would you change or do differently in the next production?

Nothing I can think of because we improved in our production and we did well and put effort in it. If I had to change anything I would try and make everything more stable because some of our shots were wobbly and unstable and might include better actors but we can’t do anything about that.

How does your trailer fit with the look and style of a real example that you looked at in research, think about how your trailer looks and how it is edited.

I think it is nearly perfect as all horror trailers are quick and never show the murderer or monster, and we did what they did. We were influenced by Scream and Hide and Seek and if you compared those trailers to THE CALL3R then it would look like a good effort by us. I can hardly think of any flaws in our project. Maybe some bits and pieces but we don’t have the funds to do that.

Production work for The CALL3R

For the past few days Gary and I did our CALL3R work and we started in the studio and we did okay but we were not proud of our shots so we did them again and it was much better. In the Studio we did a whole range of shots OSS,CU,ECU and Mid-shots. After we revamped the shots we were much happier and confident of our trailer.

The next week we went to the multi-story car park across the road and did a runaway scene and many more including looking confused. We had help from people in our group.

Pre -Prod

Our group did the storyboard and copied them for all of us and we decided not to do a foreign language as all of us don't know how to speak another language, and it would be too complicated.

Also we were going to call RING but changed our minds and decided to call it THE CALL3R instead.

Treatment

Yesterday we did the treatment and it's about three guys who go on holiday and find themselves in a room that has a lot of history to it. They start recieving a mysterious call. After numerous calls and threats, the guys start getting worried and start panicking. Each guy starts dying a bloody death and the trailer ends off with a question or thought of "what happens next?"

In the treatment we called it RING but after many arguments we should of gone for Horrorcation because it's a horror and we are on vacation (that was my idea). We also had The Wrong Trip and nearly went for RING, RING but at the moment we have temporarily gone for RING. We have also decided to keep are real names for the trailer.

When we were talking me or Gary had a brainwave and said lets make the trailer in a foreign language and went for portoguese. I have seen a few trailers from different countries and thought they were original. I knew that the other groups were not going to do that and there are ideas could be more predictable. I think our idea is original and our trailer will be the best.

The time me and Gary and Tom swapped scripts with Stuart Ch and Jo

Gary and I did a script which involved a pig flying into a building and having adventures and we swapped the script with Stuart Chapman and Jo Dyson and we had to film their script about a man high on drugs. I was the guy on the drugs and we thought it was okay to film but it took a while to decide who will be in front of the camera.

The next day we edited our script and I thought it was a good idea for the pigs face but it was hard to edit the film because there was random laughing in every scene by Jo or Stuart. Sadly we lost our editing after Gary and I took in turns of the editing. I thought that our script was good not great, but their filming was a disgarce. Apart from the pig face it was a poor effort by the lads. But it was the script in their one was diabolical and was hard to film.

Workshop Exercise

Today my group completed the storyboard, script and treatment Tom King did the treatment, Gary Kleinveldt did the script and I did the Storyboard. The first one I did was rubbish because I couldn't draw a pig so Gary came in and gave me a hand.

We don't know who's group we have got yet because we were doing the finishing touches to the storyboard.

So far we have worked well as a team.

Workshop Film Puzzle 3

I edited as much as I could and thought that I did well with the puzzle. I left out things deliberatley because I thought that the scenes didnt go but when I watched the film it did, so i should put them back in. Apart from that I was pretty much spot on. I did the dialogue and did well with that and even though it wasn't exactly the same as the film I still knew it made sense.

Editing exercise 2

Today I was doing more editing on Brokeback Mountain and found that it was really difficult before the hut scene. Next time I will do dialogue editing.

Scene Storyboard exercise

Today I did a stoyboard on There will be blood and copied camera angles and things, I drew different camera shots and labelled everything.

Workshop Film Puzzle (Day1)

Today I did some editing on i movie and name some clip shots on the film Brokeback Mountain and had to put the locations in order to make it easier for me.

Evaluating Pre-Production

Original Ideas
In our first lesson of video production Chris told us that we were doing a chase scene Gary wasn't here, so I jotted down some decent ideas I didn't want to do anything with crime as i looked around and saw and heard other groups talking about stealing a bag and running away which for me is a bit too simple. And what me and Gary aimed to do was something different and adventurous.

Treatment
As we wanted something a little bit different we decided to go for a comedy chase as it was easy and different to what we thought other groups would do. We originally wanted it to be stupid but cool and experiment with the camera. As it was a funny scene, I thought that we should dress up in ridiculous clothes but when we were filming we didn't actually wear anything silly as it would be time consuming.

Storyboard
Both me and Gary came up with the storyboard, we discussed how we would do different camera shots and thought that the storyboard went well with the plot.

Documents

• Gary and I did the treatment
• Gary and I did the storyboard
• Gary did the script as i was away (authorised)
• Video Producton on minutes and action agreed was a group effort
• We each did a risk assessment form on each loction
• Then after filming we did the logging sheet which was done by the group.

My thoughts on Pre-Production

I thought that we all did well with Pre- Production but i have to say Gary put the most effort into the work especially with the script, but I know I came up with the original idea of a funny scene which sparked many more ideas as a group. I knew we all did well as a group and believed the plot and the chase would be far greater then anybody elses. I noticed that guys in a group did a story involving crime. A mixed gender group doing something easy and solid. But our group which was also an all guy group did something that an audience of a mixed gender would want and that was our idea and we all worked as a group to target that.

14 Jan 08

Gary and I are working together on a task of the chase scene. Gary was absent today so I decided to note a few things down. I was thinking of something original because most people would choose something to do with criminal law. But I want to do something different But at the moment can't think of anything.

On monday we had to do the editing and we lost a whole load of footage which we accidently recorded over. im glad we did that because it taught me that i must be very careful not to record over a scene we did, even if it was shabby footage i might like it if i was to edit something from that scene. i know i won't do something like this again. But Gary, Tom and I did the editing but it was very short.

then we did the storyboard on Frank And nigel and we both did it. then later on that week, we filmed the chase of frank and nigel running away we used the camera low down of us two running then we lost the footage as we were recording the scene when gary and i were in the flat which i thought was really effective.

later on that week gary and i chose to do the treatment we decided to it each and we called the scene Frank And Nigel. Frank is a vet and Nigel is a bus driver and they both lose their jobs and after a hectic day they return home and later on they get a knock on the door. its the landlord and we forgot to pay the rent. i thought it was a good idea and knew it would work.

Me and Gary chose to do a comedy scene for our chase scene which involves the landlord knocking the door because we forgot to pay the rent so we make a runner. originally i wanted to do something different as a chase scene would involve crime and something to do with the law. but i think we did something different to other ideas. ive also been very behind with the blogging as i had trouble getting into my blog.