PRODUCTION PLAN & STORYBOARD

Michael Brindley and my own movie trailer The Showdown is a sports comedy trailer that showcases two women that are running to a rendezvous point for a showdown to settle on an unknown disagreement. In the trailer we can observe how both of the contestants are getting ready for the fight, then we follow them all day throughout their running course. In the last shot of the trailer, we can observe how the first punch is thrown. Who will win? Well, you will have to watch the movie to find out.  

We used five different shot types, three editing techniques, and four camera movements for The Showdown. The shot types we used were: 

• Establishing Shot 

• Full Shot

• Master Shot

• Dutch Angle

• Point of View

The editing techniques used were:

• Fade In

• Fade Out

• Standard Cut

The camera movements used were:

• Push-In

• Static Shot 

• Whip Pan

• Zoom

When our group first met, we synchronized pretty well.  We both discussed what our hobbies were to find what theme would be fun for the both of us to work on. My partner, Michael, told me he loved sports and I told him that I loved comedy. Instantly, we knew we would do a sports comedy. At first, we thought well maybe we can do basketball or box, but where could we find a group of people playing together during a global pandemic? So we discarded group sports, so the idea of running came to mind.  “What if we do a showdown?” Michael said I responded that I thought it was a great idea not only because of the fun plot but also because we had to film from two completely different locations, and when I say completely different, I mean different countries. Our communication was strong since the minute we started, so the storyboard was easy to do, we stormed ideas like the “jumping the bench” scene and adding Tara’s dog. Filming at first was hard because we were having trouble capturing both actresses running and -us- running with them, the thing we did was that we attached our phone into a tripod and attached that tripod to the door of a car and drove the car next to them. This shot was the hardest to take because we had to synch with the pace of the run. Fortunately, after many failed attempts, we both got it. 

Finally, during editing, we wanted to add a song that was fast paced, that represented the intensity both of the characters in the trailer wanted to portray and we found the perfect one after diving into royalty free music websites. Like the music, we wanted the trailer to be fast paced and I believe we achieved that. We wanted the trailer to feel as if it was the same city and to do that, during editing, we tried to put the shots that had similar background next to each other. When we first saw our final cut, we thought it was well put together. Michael and I are very satisfied with the result, it was a good project and I had a good partner to work with.