2nd Cut Of Trailer

Rough Cut And Feedback

We created a rough cut of our trailer so that we could show friends and family and they could give us feedback on what we could do to improve the trailer, we feel that this will help us as it is thoughts from the audiences who will be watching our trailer.

See group blog: http://whodunnitproductions.blogspot.com/2010/12/rough-cut-of-trailer.html

After showing the trailer to our class, friends and family, this is the feedback we received:

• The trailer needs music to make it more attention grabbing and conventional - Class
• There needs to be heel clicking sounds to emphasise the main character walking to connote her power - Class
• Includes many conventions of a soap opera trailer and it is clear that the storyline is a new character - Class
• Some transitions are too much and it would be more effective to use simple transitions to make the trailer flow better - Class
• There needs to be some narration or some titles that explain what time and channel the soap opera episode will be broadcasted as well as a name of the soap - Family Member
• Very funny but it doesn't say when the trailer is on - Family Member

After receiving this feedback we will discuss as a group how we can alter our trailer to suit our target audiences needs.

Filming Day 4 26/11/2010

This was our final day in filming as we managed to film the rest of our soap trailer relatively quickly and efficiently. We filmed the final scene where everybody is surrounding the Hall family and we also re-filmed the Deano and Danielle reveal and the Hall children reveal as we felt it was too dark the other night when we filmed and if we used it our trailer would lack continuity.

I felt today was very successful as we manged to film alot more than we hoped and were able to finish our filming and begin editing.

Filming Day 3 22/11/2010

Today we filmed the pub scene with the boys leering at Helen, we had asked the pub owners for permission to film and it was granted. We shot this scene several times from many angles so that we had plenty of footage for when it came to editing. After this we began filming Helen walking around the corner from many different angles to show like long shots and shot reverse shot to show how she is a powerful woman. We then began to film the villagers being distracted by Helen walking past, Sophie and I each played a role of the villagers talking and we aim to use this narration over the extra-diegetic music we have planned for the trailer. We also filmed the Stephanie and Richard slap scene which we captured from 3 different cameras to provide us with plenty of footage to choose from when editing.

As we had filmed during the day, the village was quite empty and this meant footage was not obscured by passing cars and villagers. I feel this filming session was quite successful as we have gathered quite a lot of footage and only have a few shots left until we are complete.

Filming Day 2 19/11/2010

We had organised to film today but due to heavy fog we decided to cancel the filming session and reschedule with our actors as the conditions were so different to yesterdays filming. We aimed to filming the pub scene where the boys were leering at Helen but we have rescheduled this filming for another day.

Filming Day 1 18/11/2010

We began our filming with Jasmine, Tamer and Hannah who would be playing Helen, her son Deano and her daughter Courtney. Due to time constraints as it was getting dark, we already had our actors in costume and the cameras set up for when they arrived. We filmed for roughly 45 minutes as it was getting progressively darker, we started with the family walking around the corner and Helen's children are revealed for the first time. We also filmed the part where Deano looks at Danielle and it is revealed that she is pregnant, we had originally cast Jenny for this role but due to conflicting timetables, she was replaced with Jo.

I took part in filming and organising were and how the actors would walk down the street. I feel the filming session went well but i am slightly worried about how the lighting will affect the quality of the video.

Organisation Of Actors

We made sure that we were very organised with our actors and that they knew exactly when and where they would need to film, we mainly communicated with our actors at sixth form and through facebook when sending a mass message to all of our actors explaining how to get to the filming location. We also sent letters to each actor to let them know what they would need to bring with them in regards to costume, many of our actors drove and meant that we could also use all of our actors at the same time, those who couldn't drive or were unable to get a lift with the other actors were picked up by myself.

See group blog: http://whodunnitproductions.blogspot.com/2010/11/letters-to-our-actors.html And http://whodunnitproductions.blogspot.com/2010/11/organising-our-actors.html