One off the things I have been working on is the creation of the teaser for our show. It has gone through a lot of stages and finally I have edited a final piece from which I am happy in general. Taking on board a lot of the things I looked at, while doing some research, I mainly looked at the ways of making the shots quite uniques, not flat and more important finding the right tone of color to it. Originally the idea that Danny presented to me was to do something based off mystery, some sort of teaser in which the audience didn't get who or what we were exactly about until the end of it. It was a way of keeping them watching. For this I had to revisit and do a lot of research on shooting without revealing and making sure once again that the filter and tone of color iI used in the editing matched with the type of message we wanted to put up. The first thing I did was to work with Danny in the types of shots he wanted, that way I could have a bit more of a clear idea of what I was shooting. A lot of them were quite simple, but it did require a lot of work to make them look as tidy as possible.
There were 2 main things I had to work on for this teaser. The first one was the idea that Danny wanted at the end of having a 4 way split screen in which we show all the characters walking all serious until suddenly one of them drops a ball and they all laugh at him, revealing that this is not going to be a a very serious football show, but more like a couple of friends having a laugh including football in their lives. This was probably the hardest part of the teaser and more important the only one I had trouble with, because the day was really sunny and it was hard to shoot as the light kept changing because of the clouds. It was really annoying because I had to keep adjusting the aperture and making sure I had a similar light for all of them, which ended up being a bit of a problem. The 4 squares do not have the exact same light, but it was never intended to be the exact same shot, as they all they own personality, they have their own way of walk of laughing, which is clearly shown at the end of the teaser.
The second thing I had to work a lot on was color correction and altering the original footage I shot to make it look more mysterious and more commercial. The idea behind it was that the audience didn't know this was a crappy Sunday League football team, but they actually thought it is some sort of professional one, wether it is a small league or a big one. In order to achieve that, I had to make it look very professional and very good so it didn't look quite bad from the beginning. I did look at quite some different tones of colors like the one from the matrix, the ring, but in the end the one I really wanted, was a sort of green with dark that is being used for the joker in batman. The idea behind it is that the color represents the same thing that the joker does which is you can't predict what is coming. This is where I got the main idea for the color:
After a lot of work I managed to get a very similar tone like the one you see in his face, which is a type of green. I also added a bit of depth of field and shadows to make the image look less flat and highlight some light in it, like the one around the hair on his legs. Here are some stills of how it looked before and after:
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