Film Trailer Evaluation
The Task: We had to make a film trailer and it could be any genre we like
Group Roles:
Dean Sage - Director
Tom Smyth - Producer
Michael Ihean – Camera Man
Sam Bell – Main Actor
We all grouped up and thought of ideas for what our trailer will be about and what genre it is after I came up with the idea that we base our trailer on a very popular anime called Death Note it is about a young genius who gets possessions of a note book that when someones name is written into the book that person will die by the way of your choosing if however you do not write how they will die then they will die of a heart attack.
We decided we would use the same story but we would use different characters and our own way of how we would like to see the trailer.
Planning:
Planning took more time than what it should have been because we were still deciding who would have which role we all came to an agreement on our roles and Sam was fine with being the main actor for the film trailer, me and Tom were fine with being Director and Producer and Michael was fine with being cameraman. We then had to decide what the trailer would look and sound like (which we eventually went for a dark, scary and mysterious film trailer) , we also had to find out what location we would film at, which we decided we would stay at the college as it would be easier on all of the group. We also had to write a script and think of a somewhat different title because if it was just death note then it would have been an exact copy of the anime title so eventually we decided to call the trailer ‘Death Notepad’ because it was not that different from the original title and it was easy to remember.
The Filming:
Filming went very well, we got all shots within two college days and we got multiple shots that we all suggested to film as we wanted to see what it would look like, we wanted to set the scene so we wanted the scenes to be dark and mysterious to hopefully attract viewers and fans of the anime. We needed to get establishing shots to show where the film was set and what it could tell the viewer about the film so we had got multiple shots of the college so the viewer would know it was about a student we also got multiple shots of Sam to show who the main character of the film was and we got eerie shots to show his descent into insanity.
The editing:
The editing was the most complicated part due to complications into college with not enough macs so people can’t edit their trailers it took us a while each to edit our film trailers. However we still had to find the right sound effects, music and special effects to use in our trailer. I looked up for Dark eerie music and scary sound effects that I could add into my film trailer and when I found the ones I had wanted I downloaded them and added them into the part of the trailer that I felt they would be best suited. I also used a special effect on Final cut pro called fade this is where near the start or end of your clip you could make the clip you have selected. I thought this suited my trailer very well, eventually I started to render the trailer but then I realised the trailer was lacking was any information about the film so I cancelled rendering and went on to Photoshop were I made pictures for the film trailer showing us the title and who worked in the group, I thought this was a very welcome addition onto the trailer as it established the title of the film and who worked in the group.
What would I change? :
If I could change anything it would have been the scene where stabbed Lee we could have used a prop such as a fake knife or something sharp, but other than the that the whole trailer went really well and wouldn’t change anything about it.
