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Movie Trailer Remake


Pre-Production

For this project, we were assigned a specific movie about high school, and were told to remake the trailer. My group was assigned "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for our movie. I was pretty excited about this project to start with because I really like the movie I got, and I thought I got a good group. However, this project was certainly not an easy task, so we had a lot of work to do. We started off with all of our pre-production activities. This included story boarding, completing a beat sheet, and figuring out who to cast for each role. Our group decided to mainly cast from our own group to make scheduling a little easier. However, we still casted all of our adults, plus two of our main characters from outside our group. Before we started filming, we also figured out what we were going to do for locations, props, and costumes. Most of our group chipped in for some props or costumes, and we mainly decided the locations as a group. Once we had all of that figured out, we began scheduling to film in and out of school. A lot of our original plans for filming didn't work out, so we still had to readjust our plans a lot.

Production

Filming was by far the most frustrating part of this project. This was expected for all of us, but it's still not fun to have to reschedule multiple times, which pushes back the rest of our schedule and makes the whole project a little more stressful. We started our filming process in school. We originally planned to film almost all of our in-school scenes during school that day, but we only ended up getting a couple shots completed. The next day, we worked after school so shoot all of the shots in the introduction of the trailer. These were pretty easy to film because they all only included our main character, and our actor did a great job. The next week, we finished all of our teacher/principal scenes during class. Then, we finished the rest of our filming with all of our car and parent scenes the day after. My role during most of the filming process was to work the boom mic. This was definitely a learning process for me since I am still not completely comfortable with all of the audio settings on the camera, but I thought I did a pretty good job with it. Since we had to rework our plans multiple times, we had to change a few parts of the trailer so that we could finish our video in time.

Post-Production

Our editing process was largely worked on at the same time of filming because our filming pretty much pushed up to the deadline, so we didn't have a ton of time to only edit. I was technically assigned the editor role for this project, but the rest of my group contributed a lot. I worked on a lot of the basic sequencing of our video, but Kate and Layne helped to finish most of the other editing work. This included importing our music, color correcting, and doing the credits. Both of them definitely helped to teach me some of the more complex editing work. As a whole, I think our group did a pretty good job at using the five guarantees to our advantage. Our group did a great job communicating to each other, and I think we did a good job managing our time, even with the unexpected road blocks we experienced. If I were to do this project again, I think we probably would've tried to get some more filming done before Spring Break, so the latter parts of our project weren't as stressful. I also would've used both songs that are used in the original trailer, instead of just the one that we used. However, I think we did a great job casting and working together as a team to get our work done. This was once again, a fun, but frustrating project for me. It helped to reinforce the importance of all the pre-production work we do, and how that work can really make or break your final project.

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