Process
The process for the trailer was actually really hard and long. First, we had to brainstorm our movie trailer and then get it approved by my teacher because my trailer does have a little bit of sensitive content. But, after we got it approved we went straight to work. Before filming, we had to map out all of our shots in a google doc and describe what shot they were and how we would be able to create them. After the shots were planned out we had to think of locations, costumes, and actresses and actors. Pre-production took a good week to a week and a half because our trailer was packed with different shots and people and it was two minutes long. So we had a lot of planning to do before could film. We were finally ready for filming and then my school got canceled for a week due to snow and ice so my group had to redo our plans to film. But once we got everything figured out it went pretty smoothly. Filming was fun because of all the different shots we got to do and all the people to work with. It was stressful to make sure we had everything and to make the teachers and actors memorize their lines but after they did that it went by good. Filming took two and a half weeks with a whole bunch of filming outside of school and then we went to editing. Editing was such a long process because a lot of our shots had no audio so that was a whole issue, my project kept getting deleted for some reason, and we had to omit some shots because they were too difficult for beginner teenagers to be able to film okish. It was hard to keep all the audio between -12 and -18 and then matching up audio with voiceovers and trying to match up music with different shots was hard too.But it was also fun and cool to see it all come together and look somewhat nice even though I was very much rushing.
Learned
I learned a lot, once again. I have learned how important communication through a team is important because if I was gone and they didn't know it would mess with the schedule and I would have to email teachers if they were avalibe and a lot of decisions fell on me since I was the director. I have learned that if you want something to look nice you must have patience and get lots of footage. Even though I said communication was important, independent decisions are also equally important because you can't just rely on teammates to carry you through a project, there must be some sort of part you did.
Change
I would change the way the beginning of my video turned out. I don't like how all the clips are just flipping so fast that you have no idea what is going on and that might because our actor was rushing his lines or just the way it turned out but that beginning is just a collage of different shots flipping at a rapid pace and it is a little dizzying. I also would like to change the location of where we filmed some of the shots because I don't think the ones we did in school look the best but I understand that we are students and it is hard to get the variety of shots I want.
Same
I would keep most of the trailer the same. I think the places we choose and the actors/actresses we choose pulled through and did a good job with the trailer. The little thing I would want to fix are mostly nit-picky so, for the most part, I liked how it came out. The music choices are great, the costumes were good. For the most part, the locations turned out ok and the people did a fantastic job so I am really happy with it turned out
In conclusion, I had a good time filming this. I worked with some great people and I think we all were able to bounce ideas off each other and we all listened to one another and everything was respectful. The project turned out pretty good and I think I am definitely improving and everything has been really fun so much.
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