Test teaser trailer

  

This is a short test teaser trailer that I had produced to sort of test and try out the different techniques I could use in  my final product. One of  the main techniques I was focusing on in this teaser trailer are dolly movements, I really wanted to give the teaser an authentic blockbuster feel so instead of having normal static/still shots in my sequences I decided to having moving shots. Moving shots make scenes for engaging for audiences and also emits a feeling that the scene is pacing faster than it actually is. When shooting these scenes I wanted to get as many shot types in as I possibly could the majority of the shots consisting of mid-shots, close ups and extreme close ups.

 In the first sequence of the teaser I had used a computer desk chair and a tripod to emulating the feeling of having a dolly to track my actor with, I found this quite difficult to do and I taken many takes because on like an actual dolly track the desk chair does not have a predetermine track to follow and would sometimes swerve out of focus when trying to convincingly follow my actor. The second sequence consisted of a pan movement that showcased the items on the table, this shot was much more easier to capture as all I did to motivate the shot was place my camera on cardboard and slide it along the flat surface of the table.

 The second dolly track movement I did was much easier to execute than the first one,  this is the part v of the trailer where my actor is using the laptop and the camera zooms in to show the audience what my said character is doing on the computer. To achieve the dolly shot all I did was use the desk chair and tripod again as I moved closer to my actor.

 Another initial part of the trailer as the lighting originally the only lighting I had was the ambient lighting that was emitting from the lamp in the scene but this turned out disastrous as the scene was lithely dimmed causing the footage to come out noisy and hard to view, to tackle this I had borrowed the industrial flood lighting from my schools drama department to properly light the scene but even with flood light the final footage still turned out less than desirable; to combat this problem I had done some research into the type of equipment that would solve my lighting problem and found that I was using the wrong lenses. The camera I was using was the Cannon 600D which came equip with an 18-55mm lenses, this lenses is known to let little light into the sensors thereby making it worthless when filming in low lighting area. I had then bough a Cannon 50mm 1.8 lenses which is one of the lenses suggested to me for filming in know lighting, the difference between the two lenses was amazing, the 50 mm lenses produces a much more professional and sharper looking image and would be the lenses I will use to film my final product.