We had previously tried out a voice over that we would put during the action scenes of the trailer while 'Robot Rock' by Daft Punk was playing, it involved me saying; "Anyone can do what we do.." "It just takes guts". This was put in just so we can add more dialogue to the trailer, and make the characters in the film look more courageous.

We had previously chosen a soundtrack that we wanted to use for the action montage we were including in the trailer, however I had an idea of trying out a soundtrack that I had previously listened to on my phone and thought it would work better, once we tried it out me and Jai decided that using this soundtrack would be better because it just suited the video more and it gave a more 'pumped up' feeling when you were watching it.

We decided to eliminate Robbie has a character in our film trailer because it was too difficult for us to be able to film scenes for his parts of the trailer, and it would also mean we would have to eliminate scenes that we didn't want to get rid of because they worked too well in the trailer already. 

We did some more filming for our trailer yesterday and tried it out in our trailer when we were editing, however we had problems at times making the different scenes come together. Because of this it took a while to do a lot of the editing we had to do for our film trailer.

We had to make a lot of the action scenes we had filmed flow together nicely, so me and jai tried out different transitions and sequences of clips to make sure the action looked great. Also I attempted to do some cross cutting with different scenes so that the long boring scenes can become a bit more fast paced like an action film should be, this turned out to be a great thing to do and we kept it in the trailer. 

Last thursday we spent the day editing and filming my introduction scene for the film trailer. We discussed ideas of what should be included in the trailer and what different shots we should do. We had many ideas of what to include and we tried out different things, however during the editing we elimanted the different ideas we decided not to include in the end. The final edited footage we had however was not to the standard we wanted, but we wanted to show our teacher the idea we had already for that individual scene. Some parts of the scene will be re-done as the scene involved me looking at the camera as I delivered a punch line, this was an idea of my character knowing that he's within a movie, but we scrapped this idea as we thought it would be better not to do this, also we wanted to re-do the scene where I deliver the punch line to make it as funny as possible. We now need to re-do some of this scene and continue with the other scenes to ensure we do well

I will be spending a lot of days organising dates for when we can start some more filming with other actors we are including in the trailer, such as robbie and umesh who were past group members and are still actors for our film trailer. Since they're not part of the lessons we have, I will arrange dates with them to meet up on weekends and days where we all have time to film after school and hopefully some days will have the weather that we want for different scenes, and this will work in our favour.

After recieving feedback the other day, we will use this to change different things for the test footage we did for the scenes we want to include. Me and Jai will also brief the actors we're including in the trailer on what we want from them in different scenes, to make sure we get the best possible result. For example in some scenes we will need the actors to be serious and really show the action side of the film to make sure its as intense and great as it can be, and in some scenes the actors will need to be able to have great comedic timing to make sure the puns and jokes come across to the audience and have an impact on them.

Over the course of the last few months me and jai have been discussing many ideas of what to include in the trailer such as montages of gun shooting, training, puns and other action and comedy elements that we think would be a great thing to include in the trailer. Any of the ideas that we liked and want to include we have storyboarded to be put into the trailer, e.g. we have one scene that we would like to include where a gun is thrown in slow motion, we got this idea from Kick-Ass and it we thought it was a great shot and it's something that we'd like to include in the trailer. However we might change our minds while we're editing as we may think different ideas will work better in different sequences as these things will be easily shown during the editing process.

Me and Jai showed the first footage we have for our trailer to our teacher, Mr Goddard. He gave us both positive and negative feedback for the different footage we showed him based on on the camera angles, the mise en scene and our performance on actors.

Positive feedback he gave us included;

• The quality of the footage was great.
• The extreme close up shot of the Tomato shot was an interesting idea and could be soemthing good to include.
  

Negative feedback he gave us included;

• The masturbation scene that I'm involved in needs to be done to a more professional standard and needs to be done in a more serious manner instead of looking like a group of kids messing around with a camera.
• There's a lack of attention to media detail such as mise-en-scene and camera work, they need to reflect the actions I'm doing in the masturbation scene to help imply what's going on to the audience.

In lesson we watched three examples of film trailers that were made in the past few years by students. The lesson showed me that I really need to think carefully about the choices I make when I choose the location, the costume, the props used, the lighting involved and the performance of any actors we're using in the trailer. These elements are important into captavating an audience that would want to watch more than just the trailer and would actually spend money to see a movie in the cinema. Now that I know what I should do and what I shouldn't do, I feel more confident about making the film trailer, and making sure it's one that will involve all the previously stated elements to a high standard.

This lesson taught me a lot about creativity and how it forms and changes, I learnt how a lot of creativity starts with a 'hunch' or idea and then this hunch or idea evolves into something new by borrowing and combining other ideas to make these ideas even better, and this can happen over time as most ideas need to time to change to become the thing thats even better. Current technology in the world such as email, telephones, internet, and social networking sites that are massive in scale help creativity flow. People can easily connect with each other and share ideas meaning people have even better chances to be creative and help each other make new ideas and evolve any hunches that they may have.