Revision of the Trailer Idea

After filming our initial trailer we then proceeded to begin editing. It was at this stage which we noticed that our selection of shots did not give the effect we were looking for. This became problematic because our chosen genre was horror and essentially from viewing our paper edit it looked more like a comedy or a spoof. This was not the effect in which we were aiming for. As a group we decided that the reason for this was because in some of our scenes the actors didn’t really appear to be in character. Although we did ask them not to smile as a member of the production team we couldn’t physically stop them form doing so. As we were filming in their own free time and they were doing the acting as a favour. Furthermore none of our chosen actors were professional. However the failure of our first trailer can not be blamed entirely on the actors. As a group I feel we paid to much attention to the slow build up of enigma and this resulted in us missing out the action scenes which are designed to make the audience jump. We intend to address this problem by rescheduling a day for filming, where we will primarily address incorporating action shots which within itself should help to build more enigma. Additionally we decided to include a visual representation of a weapon again this is to help build the enigma. With all of this taken into consideration it should address our previous problems.
Nevertheless although the filming of the film had not gone as well as I had first thought it was not an entire waste of time. As much of the footage shot initially can be used in the final trailer as it is the way in which we have attempted to build tension and enigma.
The plan now is to reorganise the storyboards to incorporate some of our new ideas. This will also result in changes to the voiceover story board and script. The new ideas in theory should not affect the script as there are very few spoken lines as our intension is to use dramatic music produced by a group member and recorded by the group to help build the tension and enigma within our trailer.
All in all i feel the experience has been a learning curve for the group and that as a group now it has made us more aware of the fact that all the codes and conventions used within either trailers or films all play an important part in the representation and into how the audience perceive a media text.