High School Film Trailer

Project

                For this project I was tasked with recreating a movie trailer of a high school based movie. My group was assigned the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". We had the option of which official trailer we wanted to recreate. After some research, my group found the most reasonable trailer to make and started pre-production.

                Before we could start filming, there were many steps to make sure we could recreate the trailer perfectly. Unfortunately, we found that it could not be directly replicated as there were many shots that we couldn't do. I started with creating a story board of every scene in the edited trailer. Then, as a team, we wrote down all costumes and props. Finally, we cast rolls and made sure people would be available before giving them the part officially. Our group decided to keep most of the casting inside the group but we did get two adults and two students we were not already working with to help. 

                To start filming, my group worked on all of the shots we could get inside of the high school. We used the art hall as an art museum, the track stands as a baseball arena, and a teachers room as the principle's office. Outside of school, we used Kate's house as a location to film the first scenes. 

                Along the way of the project, I learned it is incredibly hard to work around other people's schedules. Many times we had to reschedule times to film scenes because of jobs and homework. This experience has helped me gain responsibility of knowing my schedule so I can help the team when I am free, and it has taught me to make time in my schedule for important things such as group projects. This project has also taught me the importance of communication, because if you didn't let the team know you aren't able to film a certain day, they may plan on that and then you would let them down.
               Next project I will try to make more time in my schedule for filming and plan ahead. I did better at not waiting until the last minute this time but there is still room for improvement. I hope to get all the filming done in a week next project.

               In conclusion I am very happy with the outcome of the piece. We finished completely with almost all the shots. The only critic I would have for it is the music. Since we could not find the original song, we used some royalty free music that didn't fit very well. Next time I will make sure we have appropriate music. Other than that, I am proud of my team for creating and finishing this project.