The research that I did was looking at other films trailers, and looking at the strengths of theirs, and so I tried to include it in my film trailer. I also looked at films that were a similar genre to my film, and looked what it had in common. I tried to avoid this, as the audience may then find it uninteresting. I then planned how my film trailer would look like, on a story board.
This planning and research was important, as it guided me and helped me produce my film trailer. If I didn’t look at other film trailers, then I wouldn’t know what kind of voice/tone/theme to include. The story board was just there to make sure I don’t do off track, and I stick to my film trailer.
I did some filming in my group. We had at least two people in every shot/scene, so that one person could film. If we needed all three people to be in the scene, we asked for a bit of help from some one else. I also did some editing to the film trailer. My partners and I contributed roughly the same as each other. I also thought of the film trailers name and thought of most of the scenes, although my partners did help.
My trailers name is “Pay Back”. This is a movie about when there are some dodge people, and someone asks them for a suit of drugs, but they have two suits, one with drugs, and another with a chip, that you can put in the computer and it will hack the government’s money. So the suits get switched, and so they give the wrong suit to the man. They then try to track down the man, and get the chip back. By this time, he realises what the chip does. At the end, he makes a replica of the chip, which is really a bomb, and so he gives it back to the dodge people, and that’s when the trailer ends.
We thought of this idea, from the film “Firewall”, where they want to hack the government’s money. The idea also just popped into my mind, so we didn’t spend much time thinking about it.
My role in the group was to be the editing person, as I am good with using electronics. My group also had to come to my house to do some of the filming, so I had to arrange that. The shots that were done at my house, were the ones when two other men take one man into an alley way, and beat him up. This is when they want that chip back.
We had to do some filming in school, and so we were wearing our school uniform. This affected the film trailer, as people would think that there’s something not right. But if people ask us why, we will just say that we were meant to change out clothing. Also we had to do this under a certain time. We couldn’t do everything at school, so we used out own cameras to film some shots at home.
The problems that I encountered were that some of the scenes filmed were filmed with a shaky hand, and so we just re-filmed these again. We also had a problem trying to put transitions in our film trailer, and so we got a bit of help from our media studies teacher. We also didn’t manage to do the voice over properly, so we got some more help from out teacher.
I demonstrated the genre very well, because most of the scenes in the trailer are action/fighting ones. This shows that the genre was action. so I think that the genre was very obvious to the audience.
I did use conventions, I used technical (camera techniques & shots) and written and audio (music etc), but I didn’t use symbolic (clothing, colours). Although we used props (suits, brief cases, and bb guns), we didn’t do any symbolising.
I wanted to represent the types of people in my trailer. I achieved this, by their props. The dodge guys, had guns with them, which shows that they are the bad people.
My target audience, was mainly boys/men aged 15-25 years old. My trailer was appropriate to this audience, as in the film, it has some swearing, and so it would not be suitable for children under 15 years old, and it has lots of action, and so men aged 25+ may not enjoy it, as they may not have grown up with these kinds of films.
The narrative that I used was our original voice. We didn’t have a voice over as it was not needed, but we needed to put our voice in it, so the audience knows a bit about the film.
The tone of my film trailer was anger and revenge. This was created by the bomb at the end, which is revenge and shows how angry the other man is. Also the fighting scenes in it shows some anger.
Other people thought that the film trailer was a bit confusing. This may be because we put the scenes in a random order. They also thought it needed a bit of work, so we are going to try to improve it. The positives were the props and setting. The negatives are the acting and camera movement. If I were to do this task again, I would choose a completely different genre, maybe horror. No I don’t think that it compares to how it would be in the film industry, as in the film industry, they spend lots of money on trailers and for this trailer we didn’t spend any money. Also they have professional actors and camera men.
