More Preparation

Written by Emma Taylor

As our trailer uses elements of telekinetic powers (Grace can move objects without touching them) we needed a way to convey this on screen. In order to do this quickly and effectively on the shoot, Tom Bailey, Assistant Director and I practiced doing these shots in preportation for our up and coming film shoot. 

I suggested that we should reverse the clips, eg. if Grace dropped a pencil, we could reverse the clip to look like it was coming from the floor.

Tom and I practiced this with two different objects.

The first trail is below:

Practice shot number 1 from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

We found that because the pencil bounced on the ground, that we should use a heavier item, so the object could just fly up instead of the item staggering before flying upwards. 

This is our second trail which we found worked a lot more smoothly. 

Practice Shots from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

We used three separate clips. One of the item falling, a close up of it hitting the ground (we then duplicated the clip and reversed it) and we used a long shot of the item being picked up.

A screen shot of our practice shots on Final Cut Pro X

Using the Final Cut Pro X editing suite we reversed and duplicated the clips.