Studio Production Unit: Production - Trailer Filming Part 1

On 27th February the first day of my filming for the trailer began.


With me I had the script and storyboard along with a cast list so I knew what people I needed.

We managed to film 2 of the 4 shots in the time I had which I'm pretty pleased about but what I regard as the hardest shot (shot 1) wasn't done: that is for the second day.

To create the seamless transition I was after myself, Jamie Terry (the presenter and actor in my trailer) and Sam Mckeown filmed shot 2. I then imported it into my mac and took a single frame of the best clip. I then dragged the still into Photoshop and edited it into a poster thus creating the start point for shot 3. I would then start shot 3 with the camera as close as possible to the poster so that the image filled as much of the frame as possible. I then moved backwards and proceed with the rest of the take.

In terms of editing it makes the edit a whole lot easier with the end of shot 2 and the start of shot 3 being the same thing. I put the two shots into Final Cut Pro and edited them together so I could see whether the transition actually worked before handing them over to Vic to edit. I'd rather know now than wait potentially a week or two to find out I need to reshoot.

The poster created using the still frame.

Thankfully the edit worked incredibly well and I'm very confident that at this point, the trailer is going to be exactly how I envisioned it and it can pull off the camera tricks flawlessly.