Evaluation of production..

Last year with media i had learnt many new skills and techniques when it came to producing a flat plan and the print side of my advanced production work, meaning i could use these skills again and improve on them more and gain professionalism to my work and use this towards how my final products. However when it came to my realisation that i would also be doing a teaser trailer working with film and moving pictures, thats when i realised i had a lot to learn. As the idea of producing a teaser trailer seemed very new and difficult to me i did a lot of research on trailers and there conventions on the internet and youtube for example and then later on in the process watched tutorials on youtube on how to put your film clips into the chosen editing program and how to put them together and cut bits out etc.

I used an apple software called 'Final Cut Pro' when it came to editing all my film clips and sounds together. I found this extremely challenging and this took me many days to complete but after watching a selection of tutorials and making sure i knew what i wanted to do with my film trailer i managed to pull it all together and produce what i would call a good teaser trailer.

Whilst editing i was looking through at all the effects i could add to my trailer on final cut pro, sounds and colours. All the non dieogetic sounds that i added i filmed with my camera (eg the scream at the end, the creepy laughing) and then uploaded it into final cut pro and cut the image and just kept the sound to place over the top of where i preferred it. Then once i had roughly edited the film together i added the effects for example the vignette which created the dark mist around the edge and the corners of the shot to create a mysterious dark feel for the audience. A big problem i came across was that the film clips i had uploaded was recorded as a interlaced H2.64 video which meant scan lines were becoming obvious making the quality of the film look bad so after looking up what i could do to prevent this i discovered i needed to de-interlace the film and i did just that. Another added effect i used on final cut pro was the 'bad film' effect which is the effect that makes the image look like its flickering which i used in parts of my film to add a certain feel to the trailer to make the audience feel almost uncomfortable when watching it, making them think there is something very strange going on.

The whole idea behind my film teaser trailer was to create an aery feel when the public are watching it, the original idea for having a happy romantic film quickly changed to a romantic thriller as i thought this would be a bigger interest to the public. I wanted the end product to have short quick cuts between shots making it feel like a big rush of energy for the viewing public and experimental camera techniques to add the effect that maybe someone else is watching through the camera and to make the audience feel like there actually there experiencing the trailer and wanting to see more and to watch the film when it comes out.

To make the trailer even more spooky, nearly all of the clips that you see in the trailer are filmed in a dark forest / woods in the middle of know where creating a lonely feel for the audience, portraying that the couple cant run away from this mad man. The interesting thing about how i ended the teaser trailer is you never know whether it was the female the mad man had been stalking that was dragged away in a body bag or the females lover. I think this added effect will keep the audience hooked and wanting to find out who it was in the body bag and what exactly is going to happen after.

For the print side of things i mostly used pages and photoshop to create my magazine front cover and teaser poster. For my magazine front cover i selected the two images i wanted to use from images i had previously taken on my camera and opened them up onto photoshop and set the image of the two men as the background image and then layered the image of the female on top and carefully erased out the background behind the female and carefully erased around the outline of the females hair to create this look and also brightened the whites of her eyes using the dodge tool.