Rough edit - North Chamber Trailer

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We have finished a rough version of our trailer. We have not yet added music or sound effects to the production. Doing so will enhance the trailers overall performance and the
audience will find it much more engaging to watch.
 
There are a number of issues that we have yet to deal with. First of all we have a couple of scenes towards the end that are not yet in the edit and we urgently need to add them in along with titles. Also we need to look at reducing the background noise especially in the opening few scenes as this will enhance the believability of the trailer, most importantly we need to get rid if the background noise in the store cupboard scene because this is very distracting, however we cannot have a silent room and therefore need to go and record some background music. Alongside this we need to find tense music to increase tension felt by the audience so that when the door slams shut they will hopefully find this fearful and jump.


Within this scene we also hope to record the monologue that we have written. This will act as a trailer convention and therefore hopefully reduce any ideas that the production is a short film and not a trailer.

Another factor that I believe needs updating is to shorten the clip sizes as some of them are quite long and I fear that the viewers might find them slightly boring and switch off which would then mean that later on in the trailer when the more exciting and tense scenes happen they will not find them as enthralling as they should do with full concentration.

Production Diary - 16/01/15

On the 16th January we asked Kaitlyn and Miranda to meet us again in order to film the last scene which we didn't have time to film before the Christmas holidays and whilst they were here there were a couple of scenes which we wanted to re-do.

We also used this as an opportunity to take photos of Cassandra for our poster.

These scenes required Cassandra as a ghost so we allowed time to do appropriate makeup and costume and we began the evening taking the photos for the poster. We took the photos on a plain black background and used one light to the right-hand side of the image which casted a dark and ominous shadow over the left side of Cassandra's face.

We then went to the classroom to film the final scene we hadn't filmed yet which is the first sighting of Cassandra as a ghost, she walks past the camera, we don't see much of Cassandra in this scene which adds to the mystery of her because we don't reveal an identity till late on in the trailer.

We always take turns in filming the shots during each scene however as the Director Hannah will oversee what we are doing and make corrections if need be:

Here is a screen-shot of the call sheet that we created for this film shoot: