EVALUATION
Evaluation For this particular project, we were asked to produce an action trailer. We had to include original photography or an original video image. The purpose of my trailer is that I wanted to make it clear to the audience that the film genre was an action film. I wanted to promote my film to the target audience which was a 15. I feel that this would promote the film as it would be showing in my trailer to people who like the genre of action film.
Classic signifiers such as guns were used so that the viewer of the trailer can identify the genre of the film. It would also go out to people over 15 as most action films have a certificate of 15. I decided to make the film certificate of 15, as I feel it would have made the film seem suspicious and more entertaining to everybody loves an awesome action movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat with mind boggling special effects and outrageous explosions.
The use of action and enigma codes was very important in the trailer because the acting, although minimal, was there to identify the trailer as action film and as stated previously the enigma codes are the main feature of this sort of trailer building a sense of mystery and engaging the audience making them want to see the actual film. I did numerous amounts of research and planning in order to make my trailer successful. I annotated various other action film trailers and I looked at the codes and conventions that they used. I also looked at the action movie-which was made by Reedley Scott. I had to describe what colours were used, what type of music they played, and how much narrative they put in the trailer.
I sense that if I did not look at this trailer's, that I would not have completed my task to make my own trailer as successfully as I have done.
We chose this idea because the story is bit different from other action stories and People watch action films so that they get an excitement rush through their body. So that they can feel excited. They are curious about what will happen next.
Pre-production, which mainly involves research and planning and Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and crew are hired, ...
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I sense that if I did not look at this trailer's, that I would not have completed my task to make my own trailer as successfully as I have done.
We chose this idea because the story is bit different from other action stories and People watch action films so that they get an excitement rush through their body. So that they can feel excited. They are curious about what will happen next.
Pre-production, which mainly involves research and planning and Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and crew are hired, locations are selected, and sets are built. Their work will include, for example, drawing up outline, storyboard, Strategies, finding factual information, additional material and contributors, using archives, researching locations, undertaking risk assessments, and organising and coordinating, logistics. Logistics involves ensuring that all the various elements of a Production are in the right place at the right time.
Production
To ensure that our sequence was effective we wanted to find a location to film that gave the visual codes we were looking for. Now a location had been established and our storyboards complete, we filled out the paperwork in compliance with professional industry practice. Most important was the risk assessment form. We wanted there to do a shot. As we were doing action trailer we needed to ensure that there always staff to help us.
I also used a particular font which for me looked old fashioned. I chose this font as old fashioned fonts look suspicious. I wanted the target audience to feel confuse whilst they were reading the narrative. The name of the trailer was called Two Words. I think that this was a good name as it represented all of what the storyline was about. The main idea of the trailer was that there were a four teenagers girl that were good friend but one day because of their one friend came late they had fight which lead to a big problem.
In our trailer, which we called "TWO WORDS", my group and I shared the roles equally as there were 5 of us we had to alternate holding the camera, acting shots, preparing pre production plan. Before filming we already decided which shots we needed and had a good idea where to film effective footage. As we only shot what we thought we might need when it came to editing it was quite easy to cut down and crop certain parts of filming and one example is the cuts between the pictures and the names on a notepad.
I feel that the editing was an extremely important part in creating a action trailer to make seen as professional and effective. The editing needed to be fairly fast paced, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats. In terms of graphology we used certain effects in our trailer such as the flash on words This makes sure the audience's attention is drawn to the point. We also didn't want this clip to go out of the audience's mind as soon as it passes; in editing we used different techniques. We used a straight cut, which is used to keep up with the chase and to move quickly between cuts. We used fade in and fade-outs to give space between shots.
In the trailer, I used music to involve the audience. When I was stating the narrative, I used the slow music. I put the slow music at the start as I feel it would not only let the audience read the narrative properly. So as soon as the trailer begins, the audience are excited by the type of music that I have chosen. In the middle, when most of the narrative is over, I suddenly use a faster sound. The audience don't expect the music to come on. When they were watching it. In most action film trailers, the characters are strong and tough. In my trailer, we chose to have perfectly normal teenagers. However, they do still fit in with the genre of a action. The editing took several hours before we had the finished product. We all helped each other in editing so we were both happy with the final product.
The original idea was that three people get killed. One is Naina which is shown in the trailer Maria and Harpz boyfriend but because so some difficulties we could not stick to our shooting schedule. The difficulties were Maria went on holiday and harpz boyfriend couldn't come. We could not shot harpz boyfriend get killed and Maria. However my group was very impressed with the final result.
The equipment I use is video camera, tripod, and cassette. For the editing we chose Mac computer. The experience using this equipment was very great because I never use this equipment. I had difficulties using Mac but I overcome this problem by asking the teacher and taking help her help.
The outcome of our final sequence was quite close to the original ideas. There were alterations along the way but we managed to create a sequence that not only met the criteria set but I personally feel in many ways exceeded them. Shots like the dolly down view ones proved extremely effective. Overall, I think that I have successfully completed what I was asked to do which was to make a action trailer and include all of the codes and conventions that are usually in a action trailer. I feel that the only thing that I could improve was how short the actual trailer was. When my fellow class mates were watching it, it seemed to go so quick. It seemed far too short. So I think that I could have made it a bit longer. I have learned what exactly I need to put into an action trailer. I have to decide the type of font to use, what colours to use, what music to use and many other things. Before, I thought it was going to be easy but then I realised it was much harder. All in all, I feel very proud of my trailer and think I completed the task effectively.
BY: RANDEEP KAUR GC/SB