Re-shooting and re-editing

After obtaining feedback from various people after they had seen my film trailer, they gave me ideas on what shots to change and constructively told me what bits worked well and what bits didn’t so I could then go away and change them in order to make my trailer a lot better. Towards the end of filming our trailer, we looked over footage and realised that we had filmed in front of a bright green wall. When we spoke about this as a group, we decided that we should re-shoot this shot because people might think the green wall symbolises something and become confused and also it didn’t look very professional so we changed the shot. This proved difficult as we had to re-book a camera for the day and told the actors that we needed to film this scene again in advance so we made sure that everyone was available. We made sure they were available and were wearing the same clothes as they were when we originally filmed this part of the trailer in order to have the essence of continuity.

Another shot we re-filmed was the phone call, originally the phone number came up as 'the boss' although we were told to stick to the genre of action/thriller this was unrealistic as in this genre of film numbers would be left unknown, therefore for re-filming we ensured the number came up as unknown.

Re-editing: we had to re-edit our film trailer as originally we over run the amount of time a film trailer would normally be, ours was over 2 minutes and we was told to cut it down to at least a minute and a half, so this meant that we would have to remove shots or cut shots down in order to reach out target time. This process was long and stressful because we removed some shots and it totally ruined the continuity of the trailer so we had to play around with the trailer even more but after a lot of hard work and moving shots around the trailer became clear and had a clear storyline again. Also as we had to remove shots and cut down the length of different shots to the music and flow of the trailer was messed up as well so we had to change the music start points and cut the amount of time the music was playing for too and this again was a long process as we had to cut and move different parts of the song in order for it to flow smoothly again but when we mastered the cuts the whole trailer came together nicely.