Whilst developing our storyboard we felt that our chief inspector scene seemed lacklustre when compared with our other scenes. We tried to think of a way to expand this scene and give it more depth and meaning to the viewer, keeping them focused on the rest of the trailer.
We have therefore decided to include a small piece of dialogue between my character and Gareth's character. Mid wa into the scene, we have included a part in our script where the chief calls us 'a pair of oafs' to which Gareth leans over to me and says 'what's an oaf?' and I reply 'Its the stuff they put in weetabix.' By using a pull-focus camera technique we believe we can effectively draw the viewer's attention away from the chief and towards us, as we are about to speak. This will demonstrate to the viewer that something of importance is about to be made, and therefore they will be prepared for the joke.
As myself, Gareth and Mr. Aherne will be in this scene, we will have to find someone else, possibly Sam, to be in control of the camera during the pull-focus effect. From my own experience from our AS work I know that this is a difficult technique to pull off effectively, and we must therefore be prepared to repeat the scene many times in order for the pull-focus to work.
We also worry that the scene may now be too long, as comedy trailers generally usually use short quick cut scenes. However, when we come to edit the trailer, if we find the scene becomes too long and slightly monotonous then we can edit out this idea and use the original plan.
This scene is elaborately explained in our script which I shall upload to my blog shortly.
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