My Poster

This is my poster which I have produced based on my research. For the title i went with planning a film trailer. Within the poster i have included information on what i have researched. The things i have found out and a little about my results

Health And Safety Video Problems

Issues with the Health and Safety production has led to the completion of the video being delayed. Before Easter we had shown the video to Sally Wain and her team and she had given us a list of notes which would be needed to make sure we met the brief that was given to us. As a team we had agreed to make sure that the video would include more information and pictures that would accompany the dramatisation in the video.

On our return to the placement we had problems with notes that had been taken at the meeting were misplaced which meant that we had to start all our plans for the improvements of the video again. For future productions it is vital to be more organised and make sure we have a dropbox set up to put anything we have done on to it this way any documents we have got will not be misplaced like this again.

In the next few days we will be sitting down with Phil Nodding to discuss the script and the plan will be to then do a bit more filming to help us finish off the video so we can get paid by Sean and Sally

My Small Viral Trailer

Tonight I finally filmed the small viral trailer which will accompany my current research. As I only had a limited time to get filming done I had chosen to strip back from my original ideas and make the trailer a lot more simple. I had watched the viral trailer for the movie "In Time" within the trailer it shows a man cutting a parking metre with a chainsaw. As a viewer you would not really understand that this is a viral video at first so I wanted to make a similar concept to this.

I wanted to keep the same storyline that I had planned but for viewers watching i didn't want them knowing anything about the plot while watching the trailer. At first I used the song "Who are you" but as I felt this could give away a idea i decided to go with a song which is also a bit of a mystery. In the trailer I have shown two of my house mates asleep and a point of view shot of the robber taking the biscuits from the kitchen. The influence for some of it was from Indiana Jones.

The idea of doing this would be to then go on and make a full trailer for the film. This is something that I will be looking to work on in the future.

Survey Results

I have sent out a survey to ask the questions for my research. The results i got gave me a help in what I will be filming for my trailer. One of the questions i asked was what is the last trailer people had watched. The next question was asking what appeals to the viewer when watching a trailer. A lot of people had been watching the trailer for the latest X-Men film but when asked what appeals to the them as a viewer most people said it come down to the storyline shown in the trailer. So this puzzled me a bit it. I think if i was going to do more research into this I would select a variety of trailers and film peoples reactions to see what they think about each trailer. This way I am engaging with my audience and when it comes to actually showing them my trailer I can get feedback on the trailer. When it comes to doing work for third year it will be an area that i would seriously considering doing for my artefacts and in terms of my blog work i can show this.

As people had said they like a good storyline I'm glad i asked the question can a trailer show too much. From the responses that i got a lot of people felt that a trailer can ruin a movie for people. Straight away this made me think about my original idea for my trailer where I was going to have a lot more shots and storyline in the trailer. Instead now I will be making a small viral video which will give nothing away from the plot  because one thing I want to do is engage people with the trailer. The idea would be to show the small trailer and get a buzz and feel for the film. Then going on to doing a longer trailer which show a bit more but still leaving the audience guessing as to what the movie will be about.

A lot of people had said music is important for a trailer. In my original ideas i was planning on playing "Who Are You" by the Who. But because i'm leaving this trailer as a mystery i have changed this to make it something random.

I'm Hoping to share my video on social network and get people to share as a word of mouth thing

My Survey

This is a list of the questions I have asked in my survey on Trailers:

-When watching a film trailer what do you expect to see?
-What was the last film trailer you watched?
-When it comes to film trailers what appeals to you the most?
-Do you think music is important in a trailer?
-What do you think of viral videos as trailers?
-Do you think a trailer can ruin a movie before you have seen it by showing too much?
-How important do you think trailers are for films?

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VGJR6ZH

A view interesting videos

This is a small little documentary on the history of the movie trailer though different decades. It is a great watch and shows how the release of the movie jaws changed the dynamics of the trailer it opened up a bigger viewing audience.

This next video is based on voice actor Don LaFontaine who has voice for over 5000 movie trailers including one of my favourite movies off all time "The Terminator".  Though most modern trailer use voice overs from actors in the film a voice over can make a trailer a lot more tense and with music blends nicely

Small Trailer Idea

Based on the research I have been doing so far with my research report I will be making a small trailer of my own to go with my poster. This is because I wanted to be creating a artefact to go with my research.

I have recently been watching detective drama Whitechapel on ITV and have enjoyed how different it is to other shows. It is a lot more darker the other crime drama's with its low key lighting and creative story telling. The film idea I have had is going to be blending elements of a detective drama with comedy. The basic outline for the film will be an investigation into the robbery of a pack of biscuits from the central character. The idea would be that the police treat this is as a serious crime and unravel the past of the central character and find out who would have a motive to perform such crimes.

In the trailer it would be a slow-mo of the biscuit tin dropping to the ground and a few cut away shots of the detectives actually starting to investigate the crime. Below is the trailer for The Usual Suspects

As I had found that British trailers show parts of culture in the UK I decided to use Tea and Biscuits as it one of the things that people think about when it comes to this country