The Trailer Is Finished!

Now that we have the finished product (which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu5qzpHpf80) we can all finish off our ancillary tasks and focus on the evaluations. Making the trailer was really fun but now we need to finish the whole thing off.

T.F

Editing 03/03/10

Today we did some editing, and we're very close to finishing the main task! The focus of our work now is more on making minor tweaks than major changes. Today we added credits at last, changed some colours, and filmed a new version of the 'innocent student being scared' scene with Dan actually looking scared this time! The colour was changed as the lighting made the shot very yellow, but we changed this for a slight blue tint, the result being the shot looks very clean now, and we might go over the other scenes if there is time, and check their colours.

Tom accidentally deleted our mood music for the first half of the trailer, but we replaced this for a slightly different music anyway which sounded slightly better because there was variation in it throughout it, whereas the last music we used was just a constant noise which didn't sound very pleasing.

Tomorrow we hope to add some voice overs, but we don't know whether to use Rob's well spoken dramatic voice or a boring voice. We'll see tomorrow!

D.N., R.K., T.F.

Filming and Editing 24th February 2010

Now we're focusing more on editing, but there are still scenes which have now decided we want to re-shoot or there are scenes we want to add into our teaser trailer. One of the scenes we needed to re-shoot was a close up with Tom. The first attempt wasn't brilliant, we were trying to set up the shot to make our villain look intimidating, but the angle of the camera, plus Tom's face didn't look convincing enough!

This time, we had the camera at and angle, and Tom changed his facial expression in the brief scene to avoid having a rather static shot. Below are two takes of this shot for comparison.





Editing has now reached the stage where we've got roughly what we want, and now we're focusing on fiddly changes to the film, such as shortening scenes in order to keep a pace to it. Sound is now playing a greater importance in editing, we've been carefully editing the mood music and been adding our first voiceovers, although these were deleted as they need to be improved due to sounding dangerously cheesy.

R.K., D.N. and T.F.

Filming 11th February 2010

Today we filmed two further scenes for our teaser trailer. Today we intended to get some dialogue into our trailer. Both scenes feature our main character, Agent Valentine.

In the first scene, we filmed Valentine running, stopping to fix his shoe, then shouting at a villain he is chasing. First we had to find a shot where the bright sun wasn't going to blur the shot, and where there was enough shade to dull the surroundings. This was done in three takes, and our second take can be seen below. We rejected this one because there was a sound fault and the top of our character's head was cut off.



In the second scene we shot, we wanted the scene to feature our title character doing something other than running. In the end, we shot a scene where Valentine sits on a bench singing along to 'Remedy' by Little Boots, making an fool of himself. The effect of this scene is intended to disappoint the audience, as if to say "here is the man who's going to save your life", to then disappoint the audience. We did this in two takes. Because of the sun we had to be careful with our shadows, so we filmed the scene from some distance away from the subject and then zoomed in order to avoid any complications. This scene was done in two takes.

R.K, D.N. and T.F.

Overview of the trailer so far

The trailer now has some music and sound effects on it and there is text. The first half of the trailer is more complete than the second half, we need some more scenes to play around with in order to build up the pace a bit. There are also a couple of scenes which we will consider reshooting a couple of scenes because the quality of them is a bit dodgy.

R.K.

Not as planned...

Our trailer is currently lacking a lot of dialogue so we decided to go and improvise some scenes with dialogue in. It didn't go to plan though, and we only shot an running scene where Valentine chases a villain across the screen, and then the villain chases Valentine back in true comic fashion. We didn't get any dialogue though so we need to go out another time and film something! It would've helped if I (Rob) didn't waste any time trying to double park someone!

D.N, T.F. and R.K.

Editing 4th February 2010

Today we did some editing of what we have so far, and we made a lot of important changes to our trailer. We spent a lot of time playing with the music in our trailer, and based on this we moved a lot of scenes around in order to build up the trailer to a climax which is what we wanted to do right from the start. What this does mean though is that our trailer looks nothing like how we planned it in the storyboard, but we've learnt a lot of new skills since then so we've put that to a good use to produce what we have at the moment.

R.K. and T.F.