Research and Planning

Kristina Tristram

Using the blog to organize research and planning

I embedded trailers that I found on youtube to show the type of trailers that I was looking at, and then I talked about them underneath explaining why I chose to look at the trailer and talk about how it will help me with coming up with my own ideas.

For the planning, I posted every bit that I was doing so I could keep a record of what I had done and so that I could remember what it was that I still had left to do. For example I posted something every time I found out something new about going to film at The Manor by the Lake. I would then talk about what it was I was going to film there.

Use of the Internet

I used the internet to find different trailers to help me choose which genre it was that I wanted to do, and then when I had chosen, to look for more trailers that were the same as the genre I had chosen to do. I didn’t only look at trailers but music videos too because some of the effects that they had used, I wanted to include in my trailer (stuff like slowing down or speeding up clips).

I also asked friends, what their favourite genres were and which type of trailer would affect them the most, even if they weren’t going to go and see it. This helped me with coming with the genre that I wanted to do and also the target audience.

Use of photography in planning I produced a storyboard to come up with the sequence of

shots and what the shots were going to look like. This helped with m thinking about the different camera shots that were going to be used and possibly even how long each shot was going to be.

My first bit of proper photography was used when taking photos of the actors I was going to use. This was to show what the actors/characters were going to look like and to explain why I had chosen them to be the actors in my trailer. I then used it to take photos of the places where I did the filming (Inside Manor by the Lake). This was so that you could see clearly what each place looked like.

To do lists

• I did a few ‘to do lists’ so that I could figure out what is was I still needed to do and what I had already done. Also, when I was going to be doing the filming. This was so that I didn’t forget anything when I went out to film. It also kept me up to date with what I’m doing and making sure that I kept to the deadline.