CHOICES trailer

WEEK #6

This is the teaser trailer for our short film CHOICES:





I think we did rather well at maintaining the teaser feel of leaving the audience in the dark while at the same time invoking interest. It was, in my opinion, sufficiently entertaining. An informal poll I took showed that my friends wanted to see the final result. Our goal was to create a trailer that did not reveal the plot yet be able to present the idea that we wanted to relay to our audience.

We weren't exactly trying to be subtle with what we were trying to get out. The intro, narration, and title makes it painstakingly clear that the film is about choices. But that is all we let the audience know.

We did not have lighting equipment yet so the scenes were pretty dark. We are thinking of filming in the day from now on and applying some day-to-night editing magic. I don't find that the darkness detracted too much from the teaser considering the dark, mysterious tone that we wanted to invoke.

I think the music did absolute wonders for us as well as the timing of the scenes to match up with said music. The ending sound track was sort of clashy, however, and I think we should have just stuck with the one track. The ending was too abrupt too, adding to the clash, but these are minor kinks that can easily be worked through. We need to be on the lookout for more tracks that'll fit our film.

For our next task, we really need to solidify the plot. We've had a lot of discussion on the matter and moved some things around, but we need absolute, concrete decisions soon. Some of these changes have been rather drastic to the integrity of the plot. In one point of the discussion, the plot consisted of visions, time travelling, and a good handful of other confusing twists and pradoxes. I'm getting a creeping feeling of getting in over our heads but that's something that's pushing me to get crack-a-lacking as soon as possible.