Evaluation of Reconstruction

For our reconstruction piece we decided to remake a part of the paranormal activity 2 trailer which a member of our group (Dan Troupe) had made a storyboard of in the summer. Making a film trailer helped me more than a music video as for my final piece I am creating a film trailer. It gave me experience in what I needed to do to make it successful.

 For our production we needed a small group of people, one for being thrown back into the camera and a group of around six or seven for the cinema scene. The locations we needed, we substituted with college locations that had a similar feel. We filmed in corridors, classrooms, a stairwell and a rooftop(Though the shots on the roof weren't used) It took us around 2 hours to film including re shoots and this was spread over 2 or 3 lessons.

(Static Shot)

 For the static shot we used a 'noise' effect in Adobe Premiere Pro which made the above effect so it appeared as if static is on the screen. To get the sound effect for static we went to a free sounds websites called www.freesound.org and chose 'static' which gave us the effect.
 An alternate idea we had for the static was to create a static image on photoshop and place it over the top of the scene. This however took more time and getting it to look right was difficult and not everyone agreed on this. In the end we stuck to the first static effect as we thought it looked better and was simpler to do.

(Image of our person being thrown into camera)

Something our group found difficult was making a person flying towards the camera look effective. Obviously we couldn't literally throw someone at the camera for health and safety reasons, nor did we have access to any sort of dummy or the means to make a realistic one. Early on we contemplated stuffing a sleeping bag or something similar but once this was tested it didn't look right.

For the final shooting of this scene we used Joe who walked backwards towards the camera. We then sped this up to make it look like he had flown into it and quickly cut to the next scene of the camera on its side. Without better equipment or more time this is likely the best we could hope to achieve when making this scene.

From this task I have improved my editing skills, camera use and now appreciate how important organisation is. I feel the task would be easier if we followed our schedule more and allowed ourselves for more opportunity to re-shoot. 

 I will use what I have learnt here to improve my work on my own film trailer.