This is our final copy for our teaser trailer. We decided to make Jade kneel down on the floor to show her weakness. We also made her look up at the camera when she was talking to make it seem like someone was looking down at her and she was looking at them scared. We wanted the trailer to look like an interview but didnt want her sitting in a white room on a chair, we wanted to add tension to the trailer and make her be sitting in a dark room looking scared on the floor. We added eerie sounding music to add more tension and used gunshots at the end when the title came up. We added the gunshots to continue with the tense atmosphere and show somethings going to happen. Jade in the trailer said what her name was, where she is from, how old she is and what she think has happened to her, by saying this is a fearful way added to the tension even more.
Filming at first was akward as we had a few problems with the location, the time to fim and who we was going to film.
We went through several amounts of ideas for our filming. We was going to use the dance and drama studio but then when we went to film a class was in there and there was no free time when we wanted to film. With this idea a few people said it was too much like a normal trailer and not a teaser trailer, so we was back down writing ideas onto paper again. Then we came up with our idea now. We decided upon an interview where the girl would be her character and would talk into the camera to show she's talking to someone, expressing what had happened in her past life (which would be happening in the actual film.) The group then had another problem as they wanted me to be the girl talking into the camera, as i didnt want to do this because i wanted to play a part more in using the camera we decided on using one of our friends, this again caused another problem as our friend had lessons that she couldnt get out of so we had to do it around our lessons, in our frees at lunch and after school. We also decided to film in the dark room that we use in photography, this was because it was a small dark room that would work better then the dance and drama studio, we then used studio lighting to point the light at Jade so we had some light and it wasnt pitch black. We managed to film in one go which was very helpful to us as where we had smeared Jades makeup down her face and made her hair all messy, coming to film again would result in a continuity error as we wouldnt of been able to make her look exactly the same as she was in previous filming. This was an advantage. Therefore filming wasnt a major fall back as we had it all done in time with time to spare to improve on anything drastic.
By having Jade kneeling on the floor we thought this worked really well as we thought this showed her weakness. We wanted this effect to show the audience how weak our model is and show she is the victim in the film. In our teaser trailer our model was in a small dark room against a door, this works really well as it portrays she's trapped, and can't get through the door. I like this idea as it shows the audience she's cornered and maybe a hostage. However i feel the door handle in the camera shot doesn't work well as it suggests the girl is close to escape but can't. Looking back at this we have discussed that we could of had her in a coffin or a hole in the ground that she can not escape from. This would of created more fear for the target audience to draw them in to come and see the film.
We uploaded our teaser trailer onto Youtube and Facebook, we got positive comments from friends on Facebook but had no comments from Youtube. Most of the comments mention what we can improve on next time. Most people liked the way we zoomed in on her face when our actress was saying what her name is and how old she was. This was to create tension. Some improvements include making the music quieter as a few people couldnt quite hear what our actress was saying, but this could be due to their computer or how
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