After discussing our plans for our film trailer with our media teacher, clearly outlining that these scenes would be filmed with maturity, and explaining our reasons for wanting to include these shots in our film trailer, our teacher decided it was best to contact the examination board to hear there opinion on the matter. The examination boards reply is shown below:
We had changed our mind about the scene portraying the ideology that sexual intercourse was about to take place. We decided to cut this scene from our film trailer because we wanted minimise the problems that may arise from filming this scene, and felt that it wasn't needed.
After receiving this reply we new that we had to take this matter further, and so we contacted Mr Potter who deals situations involving child protection in our our school, to see if we would gain acceptance to film these scenes. Below is both the email we sent to Mr Potter and his reply to us:
We was unsuccessful in gaining this permission as it is a sensitive area, and being in secondary school, it was an area that cannot be allowed to be covered. We only wanted to include these scenes to create a sense of realism for our film trailer, increasing its believability and success, however we have thought about different ways in which we could approach the same situation without compromising child protection laws, and believe we can still produce something very effective without the use of these scenes
Time Management/Plan:
We have came to the point in the development of producing our own media product where we need to start the filming for our opening scene sequence.
The first problem we needed to overcome was 'time management.' In order for our group to film we had to create a time plan that we could use, which would inform us when we were both free to film as well as the actress that we are using. Each of us have different plans on different days of the week making it hard to distinguish when all of us would be free together, so that we could film. therefore we created a time plan on excel where we could visually see when all of us are free and that time plan is shown below:
- Tuesday,
- Thursday,
- Friday,
- Saturday.
We chose to do this because both us wanted to have the same amount of inclusion and input for the production of our media product, in hope to create a film trailer with the best possible outcome.
Semiotic Elements:
There are many different factors that we needed to consider before we started filming, some of these factors are; What props do we need? Lighting? Costume? Equipment? Set? All these questions needed to be planned out so that we are ready for filming.Here is a list of equipment we shall be needing in order to film:
- Digital Camcorder,
- And a tripod.
Looking back through our plot and at our storyboard that we previously created for the film trailer that we are going to produce, we created a list of all the props we felt that we needed in order to film; this list is shown below:
- Placebo Tablets,
- Picture frame ,
- Laptop,
- Razor,
- Bandages,
- Fake Blood,
- Water bottle,
- Flowers,
- And Empty Pill Bottles,
Most of these props which we are going to use are found round our houses as normal day to day supplies. However we had to go out and buy fake the blood from a shop called; 'Harlequins,' and purchase a few bits from our local chemist, florist, in order to make our film trailer more visually believable.
Due to our film being set in present tense our actress and actor are able to wear there own clothes, due to our films nature no clothes would be damaged during any of our filming and therefore we didn't need to purchase anything in particular for our costume.
We wanted the setting for our film to be naturalistic, again, due to the nature of our film and our filming locations, we didn't need to change anything in particular, accept for my bedroom. We wanted to change the look of my bedroom because we felt the interior didn't suit a female character, therefore we changed the bed sheets and added a few accessories in order for my room to look as though it belonged to a female, seen below:
Because all of shots will be filmed during the day, we needed to manipulate our lighting so that it appeared as though it was in fact filmed at night. To do this we used blackout material over any windows in the locations we were filming, and then changed the camcorder mode to 'night.' This made our footage appear as thought it was filmed whilst it was dark, seen below:
Health And Safety:
One of the scenes for our film trailer was to be shot on a railway track. Of course this has health and safety concerns as we could not film on a working train line due to running trains. The first thing we did to overcome this problem was to research into any abandoned tracks in our area, which we would then go visit to see if the track looked as if it was still being used used so that our film trailer looked more realistic, making it more successful. Below is a picture of the only abandoned railway track in our area:
As you can see from the above photo, this train track does not look as though it is still in use and so we felt that we couldn't use it for our film trailer. We did a little more research into train tracks around our area and came across a railway known as 'Nene Valley Railway.' Nene Valley Railway uses its train tracks for old steam trains during the summer, or for private events such as weddings. Because of this we felt that there train tracks were possibly not in use during the month that we wanted to film. We got in contact with Nene Valley Railway from their website and asked them if it was okay to use there train tracks for the production of our film trailer, explaining it was for educational purposes only. They granted us permissions to use there tracks as long as we notified them when we were on them, and again when we had finished. Below is a link to there website and a picture of the Nene Valley Railway tracks which we filmed on:
Nene Valley Railway
Camera/Tripod:
Due to both the digital camcorder and tripod being our own equipment, we didn't need to book any equipment from our school and therefore no issues with lack of equipment due to having complete access to both when ever we needed them.
Budgeting:
Our budget is obviously very low, as we are students creating a film trailer for educational not professional, commercial purposes. All together it has cost us around £10 for any of the equipment and props that we needed.
Our budget is obviously very low, as we are students creating a film trailer for educational not professional, commercial purposes. All together it has cost us around £10 for any of the equipment and props that we needed.
