Voice Over Plans
17 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
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As for the voice over in my trailer, most people use the dark deep male voice but I think I want to use a female voice. Looking at the John Tucker Must Die trailer, the voice over is the main character. I watched some 2010 trailers and the majority are the male voice, but I want to follow the idea of using a female voice. I am unsure of whether I will use my own but I definitely want to use a female. I think it’s unique and the script will contain things like ‘this story is about hiles,’ etc, listing his charming characteristics etc.
I think using a female voice will be different because of the pitch in the voice. When people watch trailers they’re so used to the deep american voice that you don’t really notice it anymore. You don’t really listen to what the voice is saying, whereas when you hear the female voice you pay a little more attention. I personally did. I like the idea of having a female because it’s different to the norm.
End of Trailer
17 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
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This is the end of the trailer I plan to use for my final. I like the fact that her voice goes over the music at the end, and I will work around it so that this fits into the rest of the footage.
Story Board Plans
11 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
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My main influences for my story board of my trailer are such like ‘John Tucker Must Die’ and ‘Mean Girls’. The influences for the poster are completely different to the ones I’m using for my trailer. I chose these types of comedy films because I’ve them myself and I enjoyed them. Plus, the majority seems to do horror or thriller so I thought it would be unique to create a ‘romantic comedy’ that mainly appeals to a teenage audience.
The original idea was to have the male lead as a typical ‘jock’ and all the girls fall in love with him but I thought that was too stereotypical and wanted to make it a bit more interesting as it was quite an unrealistic storyline. However, school’s are actually very judgemental in America which is why I thought about sticking with it, but then I thought that I wanted to keep this storyboard English. I decided to switch the storyline around a little- Chris is playing my main lead. Rose, Laura and Lauren are playing my ‘clique’ girls. Lauren plays the ‘airhead’ of the group, and all three girls have a massive crush on ‘Hiles’- the main character:
Girls fancy Hiles → Hiles finds out without girls knowing → takes all of them out separately and tells them to keep it secret → they find out from ‘the waitress’ at the restaurant → they plot revenge.
It’s quite simple and it’s based along the lines of John Tucker must die, just my own, British and cheesey version. Here is the trailer to this film:
Trailer Plans
02 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
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I started looking at backing tracks for my trailer. I don’t want to copy the ’Mean Girls’ soundtrack but I think those types of songs is what I’m after. Otherwise, to make it even more corny, I want something that is really unexpected and cheesy. In other words; so bad, it’s good. Here are some examples of the type of music I want to incorporate into my trailer.
First Practise Trailer
08 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
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Here is the trailer I have produced in the practise of learning to use Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.
I used footage that the other media students and myself filmed for this video, and I used the ‘superbad’ theme tune- ‘Too hot to stop’ by the Bar Keys. I didn’t use a lot of dialogue in this, I only used the audio of the laughing clip which is of myself. I used titles, claiming the names of the people ‘starring’ in my video, the ‘films’ name and its release date. Throughout the whole clip, each of the individual clips fade into one and other, I think this was just a starting point. In the main video, I don’t know if I will use fades in the whole thing as looking at exisiting trailers, not many do use a lot of fades. I also didn’t use any voice overs, just titles, which is quite common in most trailers today. I think just by watching this ‘trailer’, you can see the genre straight away- due to the choice of song and the first clip is Hana dancing stupidly. It’s clearly a comedy, I did not include any romance clips. I didn’t know what to put for a title so I used something quite silly. ‘Nutcases on a field’ wasn’t originally on the agenda, but it was just a practise so I didn’t think it really mattered.
Trailers To Look At
30 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
I watched various trailers on youtube, and I discovered this particular one that caught my attention. It’s a comedy as it’s portrayed, and I studied the conventions of this trailer. It has the punchline quite a few times where the music stops and the characters say something funny. This is typical in a comedy film trailer, as shown in the trailer for ‘The Proposal’. This trailer also contains the text that the Dinner For Schmucks trailer used.
They use the punchline silence to establish the plot vaguely. I didn’t use this in my trailer as I have no dialogue, but I stopped the music as a person in the video laughs, then carried it on, as it gives it quite a comical feel. As you go along both trailers they type out the basic plot of the story- I think this is a good way to catch the audiences’ eye and it does make you want to watch the film. The idea of a comedy trailer uses warm looking colours, no darkness or suspense. They use high beat music and keep it jumpy so the audience won’t lose interest. I noticed that both trailers use fades and quick edits to each shot, using a variety of transitions. It shows some of the funny parts of the film, but not the funniest parts, leaving more for the audience to see if they go and pay to watch the film. It happens in both trailers that I have looked at and that’s what I’ve done with my practise trailer. Dinner For Schmucks shows the love interest in the movie, but also the two main leads- as the wife is shown in a few of the shots you can automatically see the dilemma of the story. Whereas at the beginning of the trailer for The Proposal; it starts off with the dilemma, therefore the rest of the trailer is about fixing it and building it back up to the climax. My trailer uses the footage we shot in school time and some of the other groups’ footage, and it’s pretty much us messing around. The laughing shot was a total accident and could be considered as an ‘outtake’ but I decided to use it in my video as it kept the pace going, kept it interesting and kept it light. I noticed each of the trailers are quite fast paced- mine isn’t as fast as this and most of the edits are fades, however this is a learning curve and I can learn to improve.
Looking At Trailers
16 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
For this year’s project, we’ve been carefully studying the conventions of film trailers in the follow up to creating our own. We’ve been practising using the Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 to produce our practise trailers; and we’ve used video cameras to capture one and other in different types of shots. I used some of this footage to create my practise trailer- making it ‘random’. However, the footage that I have used fits together and I have learnt to use titles at the beginning of my advert. Firstly; I used the footage that we created as a group in my practise trailer- I named it ‘Hana’s Immense Journey’ and it’s pretty much just shots of Hana walking around school. It includes titles of which consist of the film title, a ‘punny’ production name, who’s starring in the movie, the director and the film ratings screen. Also including transitions and sound but not yet a soundtrack. At the end of the clip there’s footage of myself laughing, which personally I think finishes the clip nicely. I didn’t want to make it too serious as it’s only a practise trailer; however I did want the conventions to work well together. I have not yet figured out all of the functions in Premiere Elements; I intend to make more practise trailers with my own footage, just to familiarise myself with them.
I based my own practise trailer on comedy and spoof- it’s not very serious at all; and the whole point of the video was just to figure out which function did which. I plan to create story boards and include a lot of research for my main trailer.
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