Filming diary 2 & 3

Filming Diary 2&3

Filming Diary 2 - After talking with Ryan about the different days that we both could and could not do we found that in the recent look of dates there was no time that we were able to go out and get some more footage together. From this Ryan then said that he would go away without me on one of the days that he said he could and filming some more footage, the scenes that did not require me being in many of them.

The day after Ryan's filming we discussed the footage that he had collected. Due to bad weather he was not able to record a lot of footage, but with the amount that we had filmed at this stage every little bit of footage was better than what we did have.

Filming Diary 3 - Yesterday, after a long discussion with Ryan about other filming days that we could both do we found that once again there was little days and times that we could find that we were both able to do. Because of our need to get the final parts of our trailer filmed I decided that I would go out and get some more of the footage that we needed. Because Ryan is the person that kept the props I was only able to plan out some different shots that used me walking about, searching, running, washing and watching.

On filming day, after 2 days of heavy rain the field where we planned to film was water logged and a little flooded. But because the flooding was not that bad I decided to go ahead anyway. After getting my mother to be the camera person I planned some basic shots that I was going to be able to do without the use of props.

Title Idea's

Title Idea's Within the Trailer

Thinking about where to have the title showing within our film, although a small part of the process, it is still important for this to be considered when making a film trailer. You want to place it somewhere were the audience are going to notice it most. You don't want to put it too early otherwise the audience will make pre-judgments about the film before they have seen anything about it, where as you don't want to put it too late otherwise the audience may start to get bored while waiting for the film title to show up for them to look up, You don't want it to be on screen for to short as the audience may not get a good chance to remember the title, and you don't want it up for too long so the audience start to loose interest. Placing it during the high action scenes means that the audience will be focusing on what is happening and not what the title is, whereas you don't want to put it up during the slow moments otherwise the audience will begin to associate the film with that slow feeling.

This is why, in my opinion, I feel that the title of the film should be show about 3/4 of the way through the trailer, just after a high action sequence has been shown, that way the audience have had enough time to see what the film is about so that they can begin to associate the film title with what they have seen, also they will associate the film with the high thrill action feeling that we want to get across to the audience. But also allowing the trailer to carry on to show a little more of the emotion side within the film, showing that this film isn't just mindless violence within the threat of becoming infected with this new deadly disease, but that there will also be a solid story for them to follow and get their teeth stuck into.

Extras?

We like the idea of having other characters within our story, but as we have set our main protagonist as a teenager set in isolation fighting for survival.

We feel that the best way to incorporate other characters within the story would be to have them as characters that Alex can come across. This includes new enemy's for him to make and new friends for Alex to find trust in. But from finding friends he increases the chances of being found by gangs and the chances of running into zombies.

Adding in new characters means we can explore the different ways that Alex will interact with each character, then choosing the best reactions and trials they would have to go through we can add them into the trailer and cut out the parts that we feel don't add much to the story.

This would be providing on the availability on people to be able to act for our film.

Soundtrack

Matt and myself have  spent a few hours thinking about and creating a sound track for our trailer that we felt would work well. The music would start soft with an acoustic guitar, matching the solemn feel of the clips flashing up of the main characters past. Once around 20-30 seconds have passed then we would introduce the more high action scenes into the trailer, with this sudden change in visual we would have to match that sudden change in emotion with the music. This would be done by a bass line become very prominent, followed by heavier guitar and drums, this continues for another 20-30 seconds and then brakes off into a guitar solo section, in which the bass and drums continue but with less prominence. After around 10-15 seconds of that then the music would return to the heavier of the music sections but would slow down and eventually end with the acoustic guitar coming back in for a few seconds.

 

Allowing the trailer to end with the same feel that it began with, showing that as the days go on within this film of isolation, there are moments in life which pick up, the danger increases or something new gets added to the equation. But all in all it was always return to the feeling of being alone with no comfort.