Problems

Here are some problems that i found occurred when constructing my trailer.
When considering my actors for the film then i came across some problems of choosing the right person to fit the part, i also had to try and find someone around my age to play the part otherwise they wouldn't fit the characters age as the girls are meant to be young enough to be able to still be in high school. As it had to be someone around my age then it was hard finding people who had enough time to be able to take part, and people who fit the part. Eventually i found that Millie and Chloe fit the parts just right and they had enough time to be able to be in my film.

When filming as i have already said it was very hard finding times that everyone was free, eventually we would agree on times but there wouldn't be much time to film so I would have to plan what we were doing in advance every time so i could make sure everything i needed doing would get done, we did not have time to mess around and plan as we went.

I always made sure that i filmed a few of each scene, in different ways. Then i would have lots of variety when choosing what i wanted to use in the actual trailer.

The main problem i had when filming was at the start then i filmed about a four minutes of footage of scenes and when i went to plug it into the laptop the cameras tape kept jumping and all my footage was ruined. Therefore i needed to find a solution to this problem - quick. I managed to put the tape into a new camera and watch it back, it played fine on the new camera, but would it on the laptop. Luckily i found out it was just the camera that was playing up and ruining the footage, so after i changed the camera then my piece worked fine.

Feedback from professional

In class today we had a professional come in and comment on our work of what he thought of it.
I had some useful tips on how to improve my piece such as the following:

• Edit the title scenes or known as the scenes with writing in them, to all have the same font. 
• change alarm sounds as they are too noisy and take away the ambiance of what is happening. 
• make the sound the same throughout.
• cut out some bits, such as at the start after my main character falls out of bed to cut the rest of it out.
• to have a more show of 'the bully' and 'the outsider' to be more dramatically seen, as at the moment it comes at the bottom of the scene for about 2 seconds.
• when i have a clip saying 'Change is coming' maybe i should change it to some different writing of 'this could happen to anyone' however he felt this wasn't critical and it doesn't need to be changed that much as he likes my original idea. 

He felt the good things about the trailer was:

• good editing
• having a clip after the title of action was good.
• the music fits the piece very well.

Audience Feedback

For my poster and magazine cover then i decided to get some audience feedback from my target audience for them. I decided to post both piece on a Facebook page that i had created with my target audience in, as i selected a handful of people who i feel fit the stereotype of who will be watching my film, as these people are who i am aiming the piece at.

For my poster i got some very good feedback as i posted two pictures up with not much difference in them but i asked my audience which they feel fits better. first photo for ancillary task:



My audience gave feedback from this photo such as:

-   "doesn't give the point out too much of who is who, as the bully doesn't look overly happy, also when i compare this film to other films with a popular girl in, for example mean girls, the main characters who are popular in school are shown to be a lot more happy."

 I took this point mainly into consideration as i did agree a lot with it, the girl on the right does not look overly happy and i don't think the point comes across of who is what character, so i then decided to change the image to this:

I felt this photo shows more who is who, as the shy girl looks a lot more shy in this photo, as she looks down and hides most of her face. I also feel it shows the other girl to look very confident as she is smiling and has her hand on her hip posing, not covering herself up like my other character. I then asked my audience again what they thought of this photo and i got the response of:

-   "I think this photo does show more about who these characters are and what part they are going to play, as you can see the girl on the left is shy and the girl on the right is a confident girl".

Getting this audience feedback was very helpful and it made my poster fit the piece more i believe. With my magazine cover then i poster a picture of the picture on its own and asked them how they feel i should conduct the magazine cover, and if they think it is a suitable picture. I had responses such as:

-   "I think that this picture suits the magazine cover, as the over picture suits a poster more. If this picture is shown on a magazine cover i feel not much will have to be said as the picture says most of it"

When i thought about it i also thought that the picture gives out the whole message of what is going on and i found that very useful, therefore i didn't want to put too much writing on it, as i wanted the main focus to be on the picture. This is what i came up with in the end:

Questions for Myra

First Draft of my piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIIH7wDh3L8

This is my first draft for my film trailer. Some questions on it i would like to ask are:

1. Do you think the music in the piece goes? Should i cut any of the music or add some more?

2. In the scene where the girls are in the bathroom, do you think that needs music or anything changing?

3. Do you think any of my shots should be cut or changed?

4. Is there anything i could change, that you feel would massively improve my trailer?

5. Do you feel my piece represents the age restriction to being a 15?

Thank you, your answers will be of great help.