Ben’s Blog

Since I last blogged about the A2 Media  task of creating a film trailer, my school teachers suggested doing a group trailer, shooting the film trailer together and promoting the film by doing seperate and different posters and magazine covers. I and other people decided to join a group, so me & 3 people: Danny, Aaron and Conor, as a group decided to choose Conor’s film idea to develop into our film trailer. His idea is a horror film called “Through The Eyes Of A Killer” shot in “first person” (from the eye view of who is featured in the film). The narrative of the film is…

To prepare for this, Conor had already prepared a storyboard for the film, but changed and added some scenes. And we also changed some more before filming to work well with the location we had planned, a flat building, featuring the inside of a flat. To get this location, deciding where to film. All 4 of us had a group talk, finding out where we could film it, Aaron arranged this, as he had the inside of a flat and the building inside available which was perfect for the film. Then we discussed when we could get together and film it, needing to find Conor’s work times as he works, so after Conor got the information, we arranged to meet 1 day after school, did so and filmed in about 3 hours.

For the filming, we borrowed 2 cameras and I brought them to the flat building/flat for the filming. With the cameras, Conor bought the storyboard he had completed with him. We used resources from the flat, such as a computer to type on and a lamp and extension for it (so it could travel further distance and still work). We needed the computer as part of the narrative and the lamp/extension for filming/mise-en-scene. For the film, we decided to shoot it when it was dark (set at night), and the camera hardly picked up any footage as it was too dark and if lights in the flat building were turned on it was too bright. So we solved this by getting using the lamp and extension cord, holding it over the actors when they were filming for the film so that it picked up the footage but didn’t make it too bright, still looking like night but with the camera able to see. Danny started off holding the lamp, but I then took over for the longest period of time. We used 2 cameras, a flip video and a professional looking camera. Shooting most the footage with the professional looking one, but some with the flip video incase 1 looked better than the other.

As for the pictures for our 4 magazines and 4 posters, we were going to use film stills as pictures but Danny & Conor decided to take real pictures with a digital camera another time.