Through posting the video of the final new & improved trailer on soical networking site FaceBook, we were able to retreive audience feedback, as well as by showing my friends at school on the Mac. Here are a selection of the feedback received;
Chrystal (18) I think the newer trailer is way better because the dialogue makes it easier to understand the plot, before i was a bit confused with the characters, but with the dialogue it is easier to tell the story.
Samantha (18) I dont know if i prefer the orginal one but its good to have dialogue in it
Emily (16) I like how the slower music is at the start and blends into the fast music when the plot gets exciting and fast paced.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Our Final New and Improved Trailer
Once again we used Premier Pro to edit our trailer, taking out the repetitive torture parts, and carefully adding in the phone call scene to intertlink with Dean.
As you can see we combined the music which was a hit & miss chance as we had no idea how well each track would compliment the other, but it worked well and i believe it is absolutely necessary to have the slower music at the start.
Nick had the idea to have the sound of lightening at the begininng of the trailer, to represent the location of rainy England, we used this sound effect over a frame of Big Ben, and then added in a flashing effect to match the lightening sound. We meant for the flashes to be between shots of Big Ben and the torture scene, however during editing a shot of Mia running ended up in there, and just as we were about to delete it, we realised it looked alright and kept it in!
The text '20th Century Fox Presents' is layered over these scenes in the white typeface as used for the other text pieces. This text also flahes to be visable and non visable.
Directly after this is the logo for 'Regency Films' which gives a very polished and proffesional look to the overall trailer.
My favourite part however of the new and improved effects we have added is the split screen of the phone calls, which allows us to see Mia and simultaneously, as well as their facial reactions. The split screen allows a range of different views and angles to be shown on screen concurrently. It allows the audience to get an idea of time also, as split screen is a sign that these two situations are happening at the exact same time in the movie, but in different locations. It is a common convention throughout trailers, especially thrillers as there tends to be alot happening, as was inspired from the Taken trailer, previously analysed as shown below;
Extra Footage, Dialogue and Music
We have filmed the extra footage of Mia's phone conversation. The location was at school in the media office, which is perfect to set the calm, normal everyday mood of Mia being at work as usual, before suddenly all this drama unexpectedly hits her life. The fact that the main protagonist is at work is an extrememly relateable experience for a majority of the audience, and makes the thriller that more terrifying, because a disaster like this could happen to anyone. She is with her best friend and work collegue 'Elana' in the office who is also seen in the original trailer, and at work they are chatting, not really very busy, which demonstrates further the relaxed atmosphere, which contrasts majorly to the catastrophe which is about to happen.
We filmed a few different variations of the dialogue, and we can decide when editing which is best to fit with our trailer, and also best fitting to the other half of the previously filmed phone call to Dean.
Another major decision we have made is to add another music track into the start of the trailer, and then attempt to blend it halfway through into the current music. The reason for this is because with the original trailer, basically every shot was action packed and had thriller conventions, however by filming and adding these new scenes of Mia at work to contrast her regular everyday life to make the action scenes even more disorientating, we need a calmer music at the start. Therefore when the footage starts to pick up pace and get exciting so will the music. We have decided on a track called 'The Dragster wave' which we discovered as it the the song played in the 'Taken' movie credits. It is extremely suitable because it has a relaxed feel to it as it is played on piano, yet there is an urgency about the tone and pace of the piece. This makes it perfect to build the tension.
We filmed a few different variations of the dialogue, and we can decide when editing which is best to fit with our trailer, and also best fitting to the other half of the previously filmed phone call to Dean.
Another major decision we have made is to add another music track into the start of the trailer, and then attempt to blend it halfway through into the current music. The reason for this is because with the original trailer, basically every shot was action packed and had thriller conventions, however by filming and adding these new scenes of Mia at work to contrast her regular everyday life to make the action scenes even more disorientating, we need a calmer music at the start. Therefore when the footage starts to pick up pace and get exciting so will the music. We have decided on a track called 'The Dragster wave' which we discovered as it the the song played in the 'Taken' movie credits. It is extremely suitable because it has a relaxed feel to it as it is played on piano, yet there is an urgency about the tone and pace of the piece. This makes it perfect to build the tension.
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Resubmitting and Imporving our trailer
Once we got the chance/option to resubmit and imporove our trailer, 4 members of our group decided it would be a great idea, as through evaluation we learnt alot about our trailer, and discovered some aspects that needed to be tweaked. I think it also helped to have a break away from this project, and then come back to it with a fresh mindset, which made it clear to us how it could be made better.
It was quick and easy to brainstorm as a group what new ideas we had for our the new and improved trailer because we all had similar opinions on our old trailer.
Our two majoe concerns with the original trailer is that it was;
a) repetitive
b) hard to follow
We decided there were too many shots of the torture scene, which made it repetitive and slightly boring, so taking these out was the first thing we decided to change. However we needed to fill up the time with something else, which worked perfectly becuase we agreed that the trailer needed dialogue, to help the audience along with the story of the trailer.
Deciding on exactly what dialogue took longer as we all had our opinions on not only how much dialogue should be included, but also how much of the plot the dialogue should reveal. We decided on a rough script of dialogue for Mia, which would combine with Deans phone call, so that it appears she is answering the phone and having a conversation with him.
It was quick and easy to brainstorm as a group what new ideas we had for our the new and improved trailer because we all had similar opinions on our old trailer.
Our two majoe concerns with the original trailer is that it was;
a) repetitive
b) hard to follow
We decided there were too many shots of the torture scene, which made it repetitive and slightly boring, so taking these out was the first thing we decided to change. However we needed to fill up the time with something else, which worked perfectly becuase we agreed that the trailer needed dialogue, to help the audience along with the story of the trailer.
Deciding on exactly what dialogue took longer as we all had our opinions on not only how much dialogue should be included, but also how much of the plot the dialogue should reveal. We decided on a rough script of dialogue for Mia, which would combine with Deans phone call, so that it appears she is answering the phone and having a conversation with him.
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