Trailer Meeting


 January 7. Zoom. Trailer meeting.


Today was my chance to pitch my basic ideas for the trailer. I worked from the brief I had been set, and sought to try and get across the energy and diversity that Skimstone has to offer. Diversity was a key buzzword for Claire, and thankfully the range of cooperation that Skimstone plays host to made it very easy to comply.

I told everyone that I would be arranging short 10-15 minute slots to get clips off of them over the first few days of next week. As this time was paid time for the people taking part, it was important to extract maximum value from them, and avoid wasting time. It was a little bit reminiscent of the enterprise challenge that we had as stage 2 SELL students last year.

I built more feedback as today's session went on, and incorporated it into my scripting. Claire wanted herself and Kema (the hosts of the show) to anchor the trailer, but have lots of other voices in it too. I'm planning something with fast cuts. Speaking to Claire too, she encouraged me to use Sheryl's animating skills to work with. Having never seen any of Sheryl's animated work before, this was hard to conceptualist, so despite great praise from Claire, it was good to talk to Sheryl too. In the end it was agreed that I should give Sheryl a rough storyboard and the clips that she could 'work her magic' over.

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