One of the scenes in our trailers consist of the neighbours and the mother which Hina's mum and neighbour filmed.



Due to this Hina took the camera overnight to film the scenes:








When watching this over, the scence came out really effectively because Hina's mum acted like a symphathic mum who is really upset and disturbed about her sons actions. She was looking down which bought her emotional side.



This is Hina's mum, she plays the protagnists mum, who is questionning the son.










This Hina's mum again, she is with her younger son, making it more realistic and emotional as it emphasises the familes pain.









This is Hina's neighbours bedroom, who is a christan, this provides diverse ethnic groups for the trailer.








This filming went really well and also Hina got her Uncle doing a scene where he points at the camera and says "It was you", this was not planned to be in the trailer but whilst watching it, we decided to put in as it fits in really nicely with the questioning.

Our institutional data includes:

A green classics production. A GREENT presents "The Cut"our in association with Film Four Films and the cast, Raza Mustafa with Uzma Akbar.
Casting dirctor Sameria Idrees.
Director of photography Hina Majeed
Written and produced by Suhail Muhammed

We done this data by looking at the independent films like:
Moon
Afterschool
In the loop
an Education
Nowwhere Boy

We have also decided that the film will come out:
"This Autumn"

Logo's and Captions:



This the logo that we are going to disribute in the trailer








This Logo represents an independent British Film, which our trailer is.

Suhail found this Logo through research. We also edited it in photoshop to make it more effective, we made the writing smaller and changed the colour.








Film Four Logo is useful for our trailer because due to our trailer consisting of being an independent film which requires a niche audience.








This is the title for our trailer.

This was created in photoshop with DaFont.com. We decided to have this as the title because "The Cut", relates to the filming and the film club within the film, the whole aspect of the trailer relates to filming.





This is another distribution company which is well known for distributing films like The Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood.





This is another independent film distribution company, which could be very useful for our trailer.











This is a quote from Phillip French an editor from the Observer, to make the trailers look more effective, so the audiences want to go and watch it, it attracts the audience.










The five stars emphasises the realism of the film being nominated and also the importance of the film is portrayed throgh the stars.

In lesson today, we watched the completed footage on the computer, of raza in the Mac room.
I contuniued looking at sound finding a school bell, but then Sarah helped us and we choose the best one for our trailer.

I also in lesson looked at other trailers of independant films like Paranormal Activity, After School, The Descent, Dead Man's shoes, Cube, Blood Feast to gain an idea of how independent films operate.

9th Dec Meeting:

On 9th, the meeting took place where we planned to do the scene where Raza uploads the footage on the Mac.

This scene took place in the college in the Mac room, where Suhail being the camera man filmed Raza uploading the footage. Due to acheiving a variety of footages for our trailers to choose from, we done the scene a few times to have a variety to choose from.

As a director, I was obseving the scenes and perfercting the scenes.
The filming scene went well because due to there only being one actor to film and the scene being short.

We then had time to plan for our next meeting and the remaining things that we needed to do to complete our trailer. For our next meeting which would be on 16th Dec, the last meeting before the holidays.

The things that did not go well are that we had difficultly choosing the day as not everyone was free at the same time, but we finally setted for a date, which was 16th Dec.

In this meeting we planned to do the toilet scene, where the protagnist Raza has a violent scene and then someone punches him and he falls on the flooor. This will take place in college in the boys toilet, so therefore Suhail will film it, and Raza is the actor, due to this me and Hina will forcus on the captions and the sound in the Mac room. We decided to take this approach, because then a lot can be done in a small amount of time and then also each of will have a task do complete and therefore the trailer will successfully be completed.

Overall, the meeting was really successful and we managed to do what we needed to achieve in the meeting and in advance we also had enough time to plan the next meeting, no time was wasted.

This is the step line of how the completed trailer will look like: We now know where each of the captions will be placed, making our trailer organised.
By doing this step oitline we now are clear of the captions that are still needed to be done on photoshhop.

Sound Effects:

Now that we have successfully completed our voice- over.

We can now concentrate on other sound needed in the trailer.

This includes:

School Bell=

Birds singing/chirping

Leaves chirping

Heavy Breathing

We had a bit of problem finding the sounds for these conventions for the trailer. The problems include when we were finding the sound track, the sites were blocked or the sound was not appropriate. Also some of the downloading sound tracks you had to pay.

So to solve this, Sarah helped us by showing us some sound effects from her mac book. As a group we choose the appropriate ones that would suit our trailer.

Meeting 16th Dec:

This meeting was the last one taking place before we break up for the holidays. Due this being the last week in college before the holidays we decided to finsh the filming for the whole trailer. We met up at 4 after college.

The scenes we had do were the toilet scene, so Raza and Suhail filmed this scene in the boys toilets, whilst me and Hina decided to forcus on the captions and the sound in the Mac room. #

The things that went well about this was that we divided the work between the 4 of us. And due this we ended up with completing the things we needed to complete.

However, Raza and Suhail were not able to finsh the final scenes, where the main character gets beaten up, so they will do this next week.

The things that we need to forcus on are:

Sound
Editing
Captions

In todays lesson, Raza carried on uploading the footage, whilst the rest of us sorted the captions for the trailer, we decided where to place them. We decided that the caption "Based on a true story" will be placed at the start of the trailer.

We also booked the camera for Wed, when our group meeting will take place after collge to do the remaining of our filming and Raza's voice-over. We still have the Remaining of Sam's voice-over to do as a teacher questioning Raza, but we can not do this on Wed as Sam is not available, we need to choose another day for this.

However, we have a tecniqual problem as the footage of Uzma lying on the floor as a dead body, has too much light on it, which makes it very difficult to see the actual body. Due to this we may have to re-shoot that scene again, but the date to do this is not finalised as we are currently waiting for the tecnichan Phil to see if he can do any thing about it.

Also in today's lesson we watched the footage the Hina took home to film of the parents, neighbours questioning Raza, her footage was greatly captured and included everything that was required.

Today in lesson Raza contuined working on the editing and Hina was sorting the sound out. I was sorting out the distribution for the film, like the films company, directors, producers and writers. To do this I went on trailers on youtube. The trailers were British independent film trailers, as our traile is a British independent film, to look for examples I mainly concentrated on the "After School" trailer and also "Even Dead men die"trailer, despite watching other trailers, these two were the most effective for me, the thing that I noticed was the way at the end of the trailer all the disribution information is included, rather the having produced by, directed by at the starting which big budget Hollywood films have.

We also decided where to place the captions of Micheals voice-over.
Captions:
"Fast-paced"= Raza running in the park.
"Neat" = Dragging uzma's dead body"
"Intringuing"= When Raza is calling Uzma.

The other captions include:

"Based on a true story"
"Nominated for Best Film at the 2008 Carnival film fesival. "
"Empire magazine****"
"The Cut" = The title

We have also booked a camera for Wed, to finsh of the remaining of the filming and do Raza's voice over.

Our footage for the trailer came out with fragramented images, this was caused due to the film that was used. We then decided to shoot some of the bits of the trailer again, but we then found out the problem was fixed and we no longer had to re-shoot.

We had a group meeting on Wed 2nd Dec, where we got Sam to do the voice-over for the trailer. Sam successfully completed the voice-over by doing it three times with different accents.

But what did not go well was Sam doing a voice-over for the captions, as we needed a less softer voice, Sam tried a couple of times but the voice was not coming out right. We then decided to ask Micheal, an english teacer to do it. Micheal greatly delivered the voice-over.

Hina then took the camera home, to do the remaining scene of her mother, neighbours and friends questining the boy.

On Wed, we completed the remaining of our filming for the trailer. The scenes that we had left which were the college scenes, the starting of the trailer. Sam acted in one of the scenes, being a teacher, so as the director, I gave Sam a scipt. For the cast I bought one person, and Hina also bought one person and Sohail bought about 6 or 7 people.

Strenghts: The timing for the filming went well because we got everything done on time and all the essential things were successful filmed. The first class room scene, went well because the cast was a appropriate number required for the trailer, all members, excluded Sohail, were part of the cast. Sohail was the camera man and therefore he filmed it.

The first scene of Sam talking was done a few times, as when editing the best shot can be
chosen. Also if Sam made a mistake whilst speaking, Sohail carried on filming as it can be edited later. This made the cast as well as Sam more comfortable, during shooting.
Weaknesses: One of the weakness of our group is organisation. We are not as organised as we should be, which causes problems like confusion. For example, the ending of the trailer caused problems, as each of the memeber had a ending to the trailer, so we did not know which to pick. To solve this we asked Sarah for assistance and she said which should use a mixture of all of them. But as being poor at organisatin, the members still do not have a clear ending.
To solve this, we have meetings every Wed, where we solve any problems that accour.

Overall, the filming was done the way we wanted it to be and we have mangaged to include what we wanted.

I gave the completed script to Sam, for the teachers role. I then went to see him and ask him about it, he said that it consists of less information and therefore needs more information in it. I then added a few new things to it, but thought that it may be better if Sam was to improvise as he knows and understands the story, it would look more real and natural. I also needed more in the script because when filming we need to film exra shots, so when editing we have a variety of choice available to pick from.

Today after college, we have a group meeting at 4 till 5. In this meeting, we will complete the remaining of our filming.

I gave my completed script to Sam. We had a meeting on Wed 18th Nov 09, where we discussed the shots and our next filming date and time. This meeting was very helpful and useful because we got a chance to talk through things abot our trailer and the things that we need to do and complete.

We still have some of the scens to film for the trailer. One of the scenes requires a teacher, so yesterday me and Hina went to Sam to ask him and he said yes he will do it, but at the moment we have not decided on the day to film. As a director/producer, It is my job to create a script for
Sam, the teacher in the trailer.
The starting is:
"Come on in! Have a seat, and welcome to film club!"

The ending is:
"The deadline is on 15th Nov."

I have completed the script, and I need to show it to Sam.

Raza and Uzma practicing their scenes. The scene where the dead girl is dragged.

This is Sohail filming, he is the camera man.

This is the location, the park.

This two are the main characters in the trailer, Raza and Uzma are performing a scene where the two are flirting.

These are the pictures of the filming of the trailer.

The filming went well because everyone managed to turn up and we had no trouble filming because, despite not some of the cast not being able to turn up, we decided to act in it and this was done successfully. Asthe director/producer, I decided to bring another cameara as a prop to use in the trailer, therefore we had ecverything that was reqired for the trailer. I aso brought the scipt for the trailer.

The things that did not go well were that we did not manage to do everything, that we wanted the trailer to consists off. The thing that I realized was that actually filming something is harder then just saying it. So we were unable to to film some scenes, but despite being really cold and rainy, we managed to do the main aspects of the trailer. Each scene we filmed more than once, so we can have choose the best one, when editing. We also changed some of the things in the trailer, as it was difficult to act some scenes in the rain, like the dead girl lying on the floor scene, we changed it to the girl being dragged instead of lying on the floor.

Overall, the whole experience was interesting and we managed to capture the important parts for the trailer. Whilst watching the trailer, I realized that all the important aspects of the trailer are present.

On Sat, we went to Cannon Hill park and we filmed some of the scenes for the trailer. The filming was successful, it involved taking pictures and making film of the nature in the park.

We have decided on a teacher for the cast for our trailer. The teacher that is going to act for the trailer is Sam. On Wed, we are going have a meeting with our cast as well as Sam and therefore, we will present Sam's scipt to him, which as a director I have wrote, as well as a script for the other cast. The meeting will take place 4-5, after college.

Today I made changes to my script and added more diologue and also removed the captions from the script as the script does not require captions, only diologue is required. However, I need to decide on what the voice-over will say at the start of the trailer.

Things to do for the trailer:

1. Characters names
2. Exactly what the voice-over says (watch other trailers for inspirational)
3. Watch After-School trailer and count the number of shots.
(so we know how much to shoot.)
4. One final step outline and paste into tellow book.
5. Retype script + the step-line
6. After school has 58 individual shots, including the captions.
Our trailer needs more shots.
7. Story- board scanned.
8. Suggestions for other shots:

1.Nature (park)
2.Students talking about him being the killer
3.the vidoe camera
4.Main character fights with another character ( you killed her)
5.8 captions/graphics
6.Looking at the girls photo= newspaper article
7. Running away from someone
8. Dispairing/angry
9. His own investigation= (I'm going to prove it, was not me)
10. Confession to a friend= ( Maybe I did it?)
Confusion created for the audiences, character portrayed as confused.
By the end of trailer, the audience need to be questioning if he might have done it.
Come up with as many other shots as possible.

Timings for the trailer

I have been looking at the trailer for Afterschool and realised we need to come up with a lot more shots so I need to feed this back to my group. i have a few ideas myself but i think we need another meeting.

Today in my lesson I created my links which is heart shapes, I done this in purple and I also choose a font for my second page NEWS from defonts, I done this in purple too.