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.