Trailer 2 Research and Planning

When we made the first trailer for Claustrophobia, we felt that it was appropriate to have a slow, "artsy" trailer. This was because we wanted to break away from the conventions of standard trailers - The trailer for "Requiem for a Dream" was fast, nauseous and left the audience stunned and wanting to see more. We noticed that there was a lack of equilibrium in the trailer, and we wanted to take this route too. However we noticed from audience feedback that the lack of equilibrium also meant a lack of narrative - People didnt understand what the trailer was promoting. We decided to have another look at our trailer. We agreed that it felt too much like a short film fit for a poem, and less like a promotional piece for a film. Our initial reaction was to add some text pieces in the trailer, but we finally accepted taht we hadd to film some more material.

We went to a park and filmed Anthony in a brighter, prettier environment than the dark, dank and dusty warehouse. We also used Danny in the shots too, to show friendship. This is in contrast to the solitude and feeling of lonlieness present in the rest of the trailer.For the editing, we put the "positive" part of the trailer at the start, and then showed progressive decline using saturation and visual cues. We also changed the end text scenes, changing them to black with white text. We also removed the poem, which we felt was the best decision to bring focus back to the production being a trailer.

We now feel that the production has a better narrative feel, whilst still maintaining the original feel of the trailer that we were looking for.

Claustrophobia trailer 2.

Taking into consideration the audience feedback we had, we decided to add some footage and remove the poem from the trailer, we felt this would make the trailer have more narrative and also be less of an "artsy" short film and more related to the topic.

Evaluation

Sam Charlton A2 Media Evaluation on Prezi

Claustrophobia Trailer

This is the finished trailer for "Claustrophobia" please comment on it! Below is a trailer for which we were inspired by - Requiem for a Dream has many features that we felt were useful for our trailer too. We liked the ambiguity of the trailer and also that it does give us information about the film without giving away what is going to happen.


Thanks!

Claustrophobia Poster

This is the final draft of my poster for "Claustrophobia." I have kept to the style of my original draft, making a few changes, such as the closer up shot of the character and the blur effect which I felt gave the poster a bit more mystery and represented the effect of drugs without telling too much, which would inspire the audience to go and see the film.

Sight and Sound magazine front cover.

This is the final draft of my magazine front cover for sight and sound, promoting my film. I kept quite close to the original mock up concept as I felt it was a really good design, and whilst I modified bits and moved things around, I feel it is quite authentic to the style of the magazine. I took a photo of myself with an auto timer on my camera. I used a blue background with spot lighting on my left and lighting at the back as well. I have used several different colours on the magazine to represent the diversity of the magazine and show that it is quite indy. compared to other copies of sight and sound I think it has maintained that feel, as can be seen below.

Filming Log

Brad recorded the events of our filming day on his notepad. Below shows what happened:


Tuesday 30th March 2010
Props for cocaine shot created at 3:43pm
camera and equipment set up at 3:56pm
Shot taken at 4:06
Extra Takes taken at 4:08pm - 4:14pm
Shot finished at 4:25pm

Thursday 1st April 2010
Group met at Co-op on Deyes Lane at 3pm
Arrived at Location at 3:30pm
We set up props and costume for Anthony at 3:38pm
Starting taking a few Practice shots at 3:44pm
Cleared debris around the shot locations at 3:53pm
Started filming at 4:07pm
Shots in storyboard 1 completed at 4:35pm
Shots in storyboard 2 completed at 4:59pm
Shots in storyboard 3 completed at 5:19pm
Props and Equipment packed away at 5:20pm
Finished filming at 5:21pm
Group disbanded at 5:38pm


We intended to finish at 5:30 but clearing debris, setting up shots and other unpredictable elements meant we  overran.