Venue List and Risk Assesments

St Andrews Church (Maghull)
Train Station (Maghull)
Costa Coffee (Ormskirk)
Country Lane (Maghull)
House

The locations above were perfect for the mis en scene needed to film our trailer. Our trailer is for a scary movie so we thought very carefully about lighting and what time of day to film. St Andrews Church gave us the perfect setting for eerie dark long establishing shots to fit in with the genre of our film.

For risk assessments we made sure that no one could be harmed or hurt whilst filming. When filming in the graveyard we made sure that all branches and twigs were moved out of the way to make sure no one tripped over. All so when filming in Costa Coffee a knife was used. We made sure that the first knife used (which fell off the table) was blunt so it caused no damage; we then swapped the knife for a sharper one. A lot of the camera angles we used were high shots therefore we had to make sure the platform we used to rest the video camera on was secure and safe.

St Andrews Church Graveyard

Cafe

House 

Country Lane

Filming Log

This is a copy of our filming log. As you can see there are some significant changes from out production schedule. When coming to film our trailer it became apparent that members of our group could not be present on some days, so we re-scheduled the days and our jobs within the days of filming.

Production Log

My group consisted of Rachel Slater, Lauren Talbolt, Sam Higham and myself, Lauren O'Connor. This helps us to decide who will execute which job whilist filming are trailer. We have split the jobs fairly amongst the group. We have also included a timetable of what we will film on what days and times.



Actors

Victoria Francis

Hannah Hobson

Props

Below are pictures of props we used for our film trailer:

Knife

Gravestones

Key

Mirror

Photograph



Video Camera

Torch

Telephone 

Cabinet and Draw

Coffee cup and plate



Shower Curtain

Story Board

Below is pictures of the story boad we drew up for our trailer. Each picture reresents a scene in our trailer and next to the pictures we described what camera angles would fit best with our shots. A storyboard is exetremey important when making a short film/trailer. Out storyboard establishes framing, provides blocking and focus information, plans actor movements and action, plans camera movements and demonstrates editing possibilities. Although a storyboard helps us decided what to film and what would look best, whilist filming we did stray from the orginal plan to imporve our trailer.

Film Trailer Questionnaire

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