26/1/10

Today we completed the trailer during our drama lesson we had to take out the actors voices and add the sound tract to it. And we showed our trailer to other people such as some six form students and Mr Boyle. I had to tally up the results of the people who anwsered my evaluation sheet and place it as a graph on the presention about the work we done.

Fatmata and I helped the poster team replace the posters they put up with the wrong dates and add a few more in upper school and lower school.

19/1/10

Lola and I created a buzz(brainstorm of ways to get people exicited about the play and to get people to come) We have a some ideas in how to do so such as putting mini posters in the staff's pigeon holes, tell people,display poster and trailer on school website and email parents and also show the trailers in assembly and tutors give out leaflets.

We as a group worked on the titles an added them to the trailer, putting them in order and editing the clips. Lola worked more on the titles during period 5and 6,Fatmata and Ellie edited the trailer while I worked on doing the evaluation sheets to hand to people to see what can be improved. The questions were:

What did you like about the trailer?

What could have been improved?

There was also a table to rate the font, length, music etc. After writing the questions up on the computors I was able to print alot of copies and print it up and slice into sections to give to people round the school who have seen the trailer.

12/1/10

I watched the trailer and came up with some questions that we wanted to ask the audience so we would know to improve it and see what is good with the work. The question were things like

• Can hear the actors?
• Do you think we need to change the voice over?
• Do you think the font is ok?
• Do you think the music goes well with the trailer?

After I came up with some questions I came back to my group to see if they agreed the questions ad whether we need to add more questions. We kept my original questions and decided not to add any more, so then I typed up the questions and saved so we can show the questions on the white board to read out in when we do the presentation.

After finding out what our audience thinks we will improve our trailer, we will add changes to the trailer and make it much more interesting.The audience feed back could increase the number of people coming to the WSS production and more people will be intrested through the trailer.

15/12/09

Today Ieditetd a scene for the trailer which we called the fight which was basicly a fighting scene, I had to drag it inti the video time line and cut out bits which were not nessersary. After doing that I was asked to add some text in the begining of the trailer which was 'What happens when a fantastic musical comes to dunraven' We chose to put it into red writting and make the size 31. The trailer could be improved by making the text smaller to fit in the screen and fading effect to fade into the movie clips.

Me and Fatmata streamed the recordings from wss rehersals on the new apple laptops which miss taylor kindly got for us.We captured the following clips for the trailer, The knife fight, Ebon singing close up of the Sharks and jets and some dance scenes. We were gonna use the clips in trailer and see if we can do anymore filming.

For 2 weeks me and the trailer group brain stormed on how long the trailer clips should be and which scenes will we be using.Generaly the clips wer 3 seconds long we decided on the amrica dance scene and a close up of the people playing tony and maria .We were hopnig to get other scenes in but they may not be rehersed when we go to film.

1. Poster needs to go up about 4 weeks before the show. I would like to see a copy to ok it before it goes to production please.
2. Trailer - again 4 weeks so we have good time to market the show.
3. Yes I will need to give feedback on the poster.
4. Wednesday 10th Feb and Thursday 11th Feb at 7pm
Hope that is all you need - let me know if there is any more info you need.


From: Jordan Thompson [sciencegeek95@hotmail.co.uk]


As you know the Creative and Media group are part of the publicity team for Westside Story. So far we have split into two groups: Akhilesh, Faduma, Ibu and Tkeyeh are the group working on posters. Jordan, Fatmata, Ellie and Lola are working on the trailer.

Could you please answer the following questions?
1. When should the poster be completed by?
2 When should the trailer be competed by?
3. Would you give us feedback on the poster and the trailer drafts and then we make the final out come.
4. Also, would you inform us of the exact date that Westside story will be performed?

Alex taylor directed kids might fly

Jonas odell is the director of lies

Rafael sommerhalder is the directer of wolves

Sarah wickens is the director of what light

Emma sullivan The director of after tomorrow

BFI Festifal

At the Bfi two guys were explaining the process of making a short movie. It really depends on the budget if the budget they have to think economically like how are they can find a scene on trees and grass in the local area and keeping an eye on the weather is vital if your short film is based in sunny weather it can be disaster therefore they learn to work with it; they film the rain drops on window and try to make it look as if it is coming off garden sprinklers.They also showed us some short films I enjoyed the film called after tomorrow it was about a old man who See's himself young and he lives in this house with an old women and a young lady. He tries to leave the house to say sorry to his wife for something but the old lady is his wife and at the end she tells him but he doesn't believe her and the movie ends.We got to interview a women called Ginger on how to publicise trailers and how to be creative and we interviewed a man named Tim about how to publicise through posters.

theatre trailer of west side story

click THIS to view the theatre version west side story.We thought about what the slogan for our production:

West side comes to south side

It's new again

Dunraven relives west side story

We decided that we were going to publicize through posters and trailers. We also thought about making the west side story into graffiti. We created a colour scheme for our posters. Red to symbolise passion, death and anger. Blue because it is our school colour and yelow to represent hope.