Victor Inc.: P4: Production Material

Promised Land trailer

The trailer was the most time consuming part of the production process as it meant planning a way that it would be engaging for the target audience and still in some way inform them about what the show is about without blowing the budget on it. This meant that I had to make the most out of the resources and locations I had at my disposal as I couldn't go to Libya or Nigeria and didn't have access to the BBC library of footage. This coupled up with the busy schedules of the actors and actresses I had meant that I could only do a certain amount of work so I had to be as efficient and quick as possible with shooting which meant a lot of compromises had to be made and scenes I really wanted to put in were cut. Although I did manage to get some footage of Africa through family members living and coincidentally visiting Africa the week I started shooting, the footage I received wasn't of great quality in terms of how the camera kept shaking and the constant rotation of the camera by the person taking the footage, making the footage almost impossible to use. Because of this the scenes I wanted to include Africa in the trailer also had to be drastically reduced. Because of the time constraints and the constant compromises, the trailer is closer to being a teaser than it is a trailer with its 51 second run time. I started off by changing the size of the screen to a square of 1080 by 1080 before rotating all the pics to stand up right and zoomed in on them 81% as they didn't all fit the full screen. As well as zooming in, I had to chose what part of the video I wanted to focus on because not all the video could be seen on screen. Then I had to cut every video to be the right length for the teaser and to organise the video's to fit the storyboard I made. I then inputted the audio of Lesley Marshall and Frank Kuyeli I took on the shooting day as they are narrating everything in the trailer. Then I downloaded and inputted copyright free sounds in the areas and times I wanted to put them in. The last details I added were for the beginning and the end, I inputted a black screen at the beginning to allow the trailer to fade from black by using the "cross-dissolve" transition and at the end as well to allow the teaser to fade to black by using he "fade to colour" transition. The last actions I did was inputting an image of the logo which faded in at the end from black with the use of the "Gaussian" transition, then finally inputted the slogan by inputting it with the "Basic title" text.

"Promised Land" interviews

- Interviews with the actors that are playing the Walker family in the TV show: Lesley and Derek Marshall & Gabriella "Gabby" Bull. These were taken moments after the photos and video's for the teaser trailer and edited in a very similar fashion.

I changed the size of the screen to ensure it would be perfect for the portrait video's I was using and also to suit the portable video mode on YouTube. I also had to rotate all the video's used 90 degrees to make them stand up right properly. I watched each of the videos that I took with the actors and chose to cut at the point where either they or I made a mistake to make sure that only the good content will be put up when I uploaded the video. I also inputted a cross-dissolve transition between time I cut the interviews and a fade-to-colour transition when cutting between characters to show the ending of one person and the beginning of another persons interview. The last part of action I did for the interviews was to include some text that "Blurred" in and out when each character came on screen as well.

Radio Advert

The radio advert was relatively easy and quick to make. the first thing I did was input an image to make it easier to drag audio in and ensured it was no longer than exactly 30 seconds. Since I recorded almost all the dialogue I needed for the radio advert on the same day as everything else I didn't need to re-record anything. However, I did need to record the ending of the ad on an audio recorder as I hadn't done that, then once recorded and placed in Final Cut, I used my script to see when everything should be said and done to help with organising it all accordingly. I downloaded and inputted all the sound effects and things I needed before also placing them at their right times. After this, there was the hardest part of making sure the sound quality was good throughout and that the dialogue could always be heard. This was hard to do as it meant constantly playing with the volume control. After this there was just the little matter of ensuring everything sounds good and that there were no awkward moments of complete silence, which meant I had to extend the sound of nature to last till the end and make it quiet so it wouldn't overpower the narration.

Poster, billboard and print advertising

The posters and billboards were made in a more unconventional way than most people did because the photoshop on my computer was not working so I had to find a way to make them without the software. As with all other methods of advertising, I took all these pictures on the same day as taking the videos for the teaser/trailer. They were done directly after the video's for the teaser/trailer were taken and were edited in the days and weeks that followed. As I didn't have photoshop at my disposal I decided to do as much as possible on Microsoft PowerPoint because of my knowledge of the software and programming.

Derek Marshall as Steve Walker

Lesley Marshall as Sue Walker

"Gabby" Bull as Lucy-Sky Walker

The Walker Family

The first thing I did was to input the picture I wanted to use onto the blank page.

The second step was to input and incorporate the BBC Three logo onto the picture in a reasonable place, so I put it in the bottom left of every picture I used to show continuity throughout the posters.

The next step was to try figure out where the best place for the shows name and logo would go. This was possibly the most difficult part of the process as I had to locate a good space in the pic where it is clearly visible, doesn't block anything and doesn't blend in with anything else in the background. So a lot of moving and altering took place to make everything look right.

The last step was to include the vital information on the posters, which was the channel people can view it on, what it is and the date it'll be available to view. I also had to make sure I could balance the continuity of all the posters and where the information is placed as well as the colours I used to make it visible.