Progress Report - Part 2 ( Pre-Production)

Thomas Allison 0051

Now my group and I were into the main depth of the pre-production designing our trailer for our film with the main aspect at mind which was to tempt our target audience to watch our film. With all this in mind we were working to our filming dates (11th and 12th of March 2010). Our pre- production work included detailed scripting and storyboarding. The scripting was fairly difficult to decide as it is to be used over the top of the trailer as an over-voice to act almost as an explanation for the shots within the trailer, genre and the type of film which is documentary. The storyboarding was carefully constructed allowing a variety of shots to show our experience and knowledge within this area but also allowing plenty of time for the construction of the sequence of shots to allow the audience to enjoy and get hooked by the trailer to watch our film which is the essential function of it. A problem at this stage of production was trying to fit the trailer around the plot; however due to the insight of trailers of this thriller genre I was able to draft a storyboard begin to work the duration of shot and diagetic and non diagetic sounds. Most of the ideas within the trailer came from mine experiences and my group’s experiences however a lot of our choices were down to questioning its professionalism and impact on the designed diegesis. Our idea follows a continuity type theme which is helped by the over voice of the female protagonist, this idea was encouraged by the research into Inglorious Bastards (2009). The Voice Over script was very important to get right as it impacted the storyboard a lot helping give it curiosity and emotion eventually building up tension alongside the chosen non diagetic sound of a keyboard tone which plays through the majority of the trailer. Overall due to our past experience and knowledge this pre-production was not so bad. After completing the storyboarding and scripting we moved on to more detail into the characters and their functions and what they would be doing during this production. Each of us did a character synopsis for the characters involved. We decided that it would be effective to not show the antagonist to create an enigma and leave the audience to wonder who or what the antagonist is and convince them to want to find out by watching our film. Overall at this stage of the pre-production all is going to plan, my group and I are preparing the final elements of the pre-production leading to the filming.