Saw Sweded

(09.11.09)

We were given the task at the beginning of November to swede a trailer of our choice.
Sweding a trailer is where you take a trailer and re-do it, but using no money to do it and trying to make it look as good as possible.
Our teacher put us into groups this time, which I thought was a good idea because it helped me learn to work with other people and also the groups were a lot smaller so we could interact and share our ideas more easily. Also our group consisted of Lizzie, Leone and myself, these are two girls that I get along with very well so I was pleased to work with them in a group.
During one of our lessons we looked at sweding Shaun of the dead, we thought this would be good, we planned to get a group of friends to act as the zombies and thought we could work this out really well.
However, nearing the end of the lesson one of us came up with the idea of doing Saw. We thought it would be quite easy and fun to do, taking the first ever Saw film and making paper chains, making a saw or borrowing one from the graphics department, and there is a disabled toilet in our school that looked quite like a bathroom so we thought it would be a good idea.
The next two lessons after this we were planning how to do it, what to wear, what to bring in, and we decided that the second lesson we would make our paper chains and gather everything together in time for when we decided to film. We gave ourself the two hour lesson we have on a Friday to film it and also get make-up and clothing done.
We filmed it in perfect time and it went a success with the filming, the next two lessons we decided we would spend them on editing.
We found that our video was a huge success, ranking 3rd over the whole year group who study media. However from our feedback we found we would have got a higher mark if we would have made the video a little bit longer, but we felt on a personal note that there was no way to make it longer as we had covered all the material that was in the trailer, so we were happy as a group with our finished product, and here it is: