Stages of Production

The first stage of the process of making our horror trailer I am my group had to sit down and decide what we are going to do for our trailer, in order to do this we had to find out the decide the basis of our story and according to that we had to write up a synopsis to describe what the film is about in a short structure to get the audience attracted to the movie by reading the synopsis, this has to be descriptive and give a brief outline to the movie in order to attract audience.

In order to decide what our story is going to be about me and my group gathered several ideas and chose the best one to go along with, according to this we then had to draw up a storyboard for the trailer according to the shots we are going to shoot for the trailer. This storyboard highlights what props we will need for each shot, the setting/location, which characters are in what shot, and the editing sequence. With the storyboard highlighting this information this makes it easier for the filming and editing process afterwards as the information is already there for us to follow. Storyboarding made our filming process more easier as we didn’t have to made decisions while filming but our storyboard acted as a guide to show us what to do from beforehand planning which made it much more easier than if we didn’t, for example: it would of been like going somewhere where you don’t know, whereas if you have planned it out before you would have a checked on a map how to get there.

The stage after storyboarding was to go out and film the trailer; here we had to shoot all of our video footage several time so that we can get several shots of the same footage encase there is something wrong with any of the other footage and also so we can select the best footage to go in the trailer. For the setting of our trailer we found a dark place under the school also known as ‘The Void’ that we decided to shoot our trailer. In order to shoot there we had to give a advance notice to the staff and a date and a time to when we want to shoot as we needed to be supervised for health and safety reasons.