Planning - Filming day

Finding days to film proved to be one of the most difficult tasks when creating our psychological trailer, due to work and school commitments of our actors/actresses. We managed to arrange 2 days to film, one being just before the Christmas holidays and the other towards the end of our study leave in January for our mock exams. On the first day of filming, we decided to focus on the first half of our trailer which is has a romantic tone, making it quite unconventional of the thriller genre. However, a similar tone can be seen in the first half of the Red Eye trailer, which is a film we took large inspiration from due to this clever contrast between the first and second half of the trailer. As we started filming in the morning on the first day, we felt it was perfect to focus on this half as we wanted to have high key lighting from the sunshine in order to create verisimilitude and connote romance effectively as well as emphasise the contrast in the latter half of the trailer. On the second day of filming, we focused on the dark, twisted scenes most commonly scene in thriller films. We started filming in the late afternoon/evening in order to create effective low key lighting, which we would use to connote mystery and convey the antagonists increasingly dark intentions.
Below shows the contrast we received by filming in the morning verse filming in the evening, as well as the conversations we had about finding a time to film.

Changes made during the production of our trailer

Male's clothing 
The first change that we made during production would be changing the males clothing from formal to casual. The reason for this is because the casual clothing makes the character more relatable to the audience, therefore making it seem more unlikely that he would be capable of causing harm and distress.

Change of character
The next change that we made would be changing the character of the best friend. Originally this character would be played by a fellow classmate who had taken GCSE drama and also has a strong interest in drama and acting in general. However, due to the busy time schedules of everyone involved in this process, it was easier for us to use one of the directors.

Change of the plot
When creating our storyboard we decided that we would show the way that the two characters meet and a short segment of dialogue that followed after this. However, we felt that after further discussion this made the trailer seem too much like an opening of a film as it showed too much chronology. From my research I found that all trailers follow the idea of being non-chronological. This is because it causes more chaos and allows the audience to begin questioning the narrative and order of events.

Another change was made to the plot after our first session of editing. Here we realised that our trailer was not fast paced enough, which meant that we needed more camera shots in order to speed this up. From here we went back to planning and decided up more shots that we felt accurately told our narrative but also remained true to a psychological thriller.

Change in relation to our props 
Another change that we made would be that we changed the prop - binoculars to a camera. The reason for this is because we felt that the use of a camera was more appealing to our young target audience who are considered technological. Although, both have a similar effect as showing the obsessive nature of our male antagonist, the camera was more accessible and more targeting towards our audience.