Today, I went out to shot some of the footage needed to make my teaser trailer, the one with the voice over, with help from Craig Mullen and Ellen Bradshaw. Overall, it went okay with the majority of the footage I needed shot with almost how I exactly wanted it but there were some problems. The shooting was somewhat rushed due to my two helpers needing to get to other lessons and having their own commitments so some footage is not the best quality or some key shots were missed all together. Also due to the less planning, the 180 degree was broken due to a desired part of my trailer not working according to plan so I had to resort to doing the old trick of snapping to a different shot so the actor could disappear and make it look more supernatural. Also the weather was brighter then the last time so it didn't suit the mood I was trying to create and meant I had to re-shoot earlier footage so I'll have to edit the footage by reducing the brightness and desaturating it to recreate the mood I desired originally. Also the original ending of Dacrual sipping a glass of his victims's blood had to be cut due to the time problem and the plan was to have blood flowing over my lips as I opened my mouth to bear the fangs but that too didn't work out as planned as the fangs were cheap and poorly fitting and I lacked any decent fake blood and had to resort to red grape juice which was a poor substitute.
However, it wasn't all bad due to props or effects as I did get pretty much every shot I wanted along with them of decent quality and salvageable when edited tomorrow so I make it fit in with my original vision. Plus it was done under very strict time constraints whilst being free of major errors so its giving me some practise in filming under tight conditions. I'll update this post with more information on any further problems encountered or if the work is better then I originally expected.
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