Ideas for different shoots.

After we had done our first draft of our teaser trailer, our focus group had some different points which we felt needed addressing. One of them was that we didn't include enough variety in our shots. I can agree with this to some level because there are only a few that we use, however, we do use some different ones, such as a high angled shot, panning shot and over the shoulder shots. We do also take shots from different heights to show a depth in our filming. For example, I went up to the top of the crane 180 feet high to do an establishing shot, and we also did some shooting from the top of the building. However, we decided that we would look at some more film trailers for our genre and take two shots from two trailers each that we liked and incorporate them into our trailer.

Taylers first choice was one of the shots from the new Spiderman movie trailer. She especially liked this shot: 

We tried to think of different ways that we could capture this movement, because we do not have the equipment that the Hollywood directors have to capture this complex shot. We thought about attatching the camera to a rope swing, along with me, and swinging across a local park and creating a movement shot like this. However, on the date we were due to do the filming, we discovered that the rope swing we had been planning on using had been vandalized, so we had to think of an alternative. I suddenly realised that I had trip planned to Go Ape.   

Go Ape is a tree top adventure which enables you to go swinging through the trees attatched to harnesses. There are several zip wires which you can swing for miles along the the forest with great views. I thought that this would be perfect for our trailer, as it is high up, and it could also be a point of view shot from the Topaz Spectors eyes. I took my camera to Go Ape and did some filming as I was riding along one of the Zip Wires. Where I went here in the New Forest there are six different zip wires of varying lengths and heights. I took videos from about three of the zip wires and also took some images just to show where abouts I was and the environment in which I filmed in. I did not have to create any sort of risk assesment for this activity as it had all been done by the company. At all times while we were above the ground I was wearing a harness which was attatched to a wire above me.We also underwent a rigorous training programme to ensure we were safe at all times.

Here are some of the establishing shots of the location where I was filming:

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The locational idea also meant that we could draw inspiration from one of the first tracking shots that existed, which was created in the 1981 film 'The Evil Dead'. Although this movie is of a completely different movie genre to our trailer, it revolutionised the tracking through trees shot as it was one of the first two use it, and it is now being used throughout the filming industry.