I am pleased (and relieved) to say that the trailer is cut and ready for the viewing public. I decided on going somewhere inbetween an exact outline of the plot and just the general tone for the first part.
The trailer has not been colour graded and the sound mix was rather rudimentary but I must say I'm very pleased with it. The first piece of music was composed by a Hong Kongese composer called Philip Yung. Philip wrote some genuinely touching and great music for the some of the romantic scenes in the film but as luck would have it the piece most useful for the trailer is the theme he wrote for the villain falling in love. I think the song captures this very well but it is a bit cheesy, just so everyone knows its intentional! Anyways please have a look and let me know what you all think. My advice is to go to youtube itself and watch it full screen with the volume way up!
As a thank you to all the Phil fans visiting my page (and just in case I don't have the trailer ready today)
This is some test footage we shot of Phil as a camera test in pre-production. We used a 14mm lens which I think suited him very well. We didn't get to use the lens much in the film but when we did it looked great. There is no sound I'm afraid but what the hell.
I've been told I should update my blog so here it goes.
Have been editing the trailer for the last 2 days. I've been very pleased with the stuff I have been cutting together thusfar. I've been scouring the rushes for any and all shots with dynamic movement/action etc as they work best for the kind trailer I am cutting.
Luckily since we have two full on fight scenes in the film I have a lot of dramatic shots I can use. I was thinking I would use a few more non-action shots but they turned out to not be really appropriate for the style of montage I was cutting.
For the first half of the trailer I am trying to decide between giving a very clear descrīption of the films plot or being more oblique and trying to give off the 'mood' of the film more than a clear plot outline. Since I do not have the film itself cut together deciding on a mood is problematic since I know that the tone/mood of a film can sometimes only reveal itself in editing. I hope to have it finished by tomorrow so I will be sure to upload as soon as I can.
My names Seamus and I recently (1st-7th Nov) shot a short film in Hong Kong. The film is a martial arts action piece and stars Philip Ng in the lead role, Yennis Cheung as the leading lady and a fellow by the name of James Ha as the villain.
We were lucky to get both Henry Chung as our DP and Jude Poyer as our Action Director. The rest of our crew was equally great and I will go into further detail about them in coming entries.
The film was entirely self-financed. I saved the money working in a warehouse in my home country of Ireland for around 3 years. I have been a huge fan of HK action cinema since I was 12 and saw John Woo`s Hard Boiled for the first time. I saw my first proper Jackie Chan movie (Police Story) a few years later and that was it for me.
Over the next while I will be writing a kind of post mortem diary of the shoot, things that happened on the day and how those decisions affected the footage that I am currently editing.
I hope the blog will prove useful to anyone who is interested in making their own film as they can see some of the problems I faced and hopefully they can anticipate and avoid them when they do their own project.
Beyond that nice to have you here and I hope you find the future blogs of interest.
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