LO4: Evaluation

Our trailer was created to promote our short film 'The Sixteenth' the narrative follows a struggling detective who is working on a case about a serial killer in the fictional town of Stompton, he is analysing the murders but he also is finding it very difficult to get anywhere on the case, he is an alcoholic as he goes to alcohol whenever he's struggling. Using notes left behind at the murder scenes, which contain information that only the detective could know. we used gradual speed in our trailer to. build up tension, to do this we edited clips shorter and shorter.

We have included music in our trailer  to build tension which will be used to influence the audience’s emotions and may make them want to watch the , we will use suspenseful music to really get the right effect on the audience. We will also use sound effects to create verisimilitude within the trailer and make it seem realistic. To edit this we used shot cuts, this is a popular convention of this type of trailer, by doing this we matched the visuals with the audio as when the music got faster so did the clips. We did this to build up tension and pace, this is a strength as it engages to audience more and may make them what to see the film in order to see what happens. 

Another strength of our trailer was the ending, I feel this ending with the static screen and “officer down” makes the trailer end of a cliff hanger, this is important in thriller trailers as it makes the audience want more which makes them want to watch the film.

We could improve this trailer by adding more scenes to create a storyline, we did our trailer in a non-linear format as we didn’t want the audience to understand what happens in the film although this can be confusing. By adding more of the narrative, especially in the beginning, it may help the audience connect more with the narrative and therefor want to watch the film.

We could have also chosen a different backing track for our trailer as it is quite over powering, this can mean the audience is distracted instead of paying attention and therefor not understanding the trailer as we intended.

Overall I feel this trailer fits the purpose of promoting for the sixteenth as it engages the audience, although we could improve it in a few areas inorder to make them understand it more.

LO4: Final trailer

LO4: Feedback

We conducted A survey to see what we could improve on our trailer, we gave the group the 4th draft of the trailer:

From this feedback, we can tell that the blank space needs filling in with footage as well as adding in titles such as the title of the film and production company. Also adding in text when the cast shows up would help it follow the conventions of a trailer. We have made these changes as part of our final draft 

LO4: Evidence of editing and audio levels

 

 

 

For the last section of the trailer with the TV static and title sequence we had to drag these onto the track, then by using the razor tool we cut these to the appropriate size, these needed to be changed as by default they are very long. We decided to use sharp cuts in our trailer to build tension so we did not use fading effects of our footage, instead we used the razor tool to cut it where was appropriate and fitted it with the music. We decided to fit our music to the visuals so that as the music was building up so was the visuals which built more tension. I also had to cut the music and apply fade-in-out to the middle part, this was because the music was too long and so lost tension, i applied a fade-in-out with a shot duration so that these two  music clips blended together.

 

The audio for our short film that we recorded whilst filming wasn't very clear in certain scenes due to background noise and the windy weather on the day of filming. With the first crime scene there was an issue where some machinery could be heard, because of this we had to re record the audio in a studio using a hand held microphone which we then synced to the actors lip movement. To do this we had them listen to the way they said the line and asked them to repeat it as close as possible so that it could be synced with the video appropriately. We then inserted and blended the audio with background noise inorder to make it seamless. By doing this now allows us to have crisp and clear audio which can be heard over background noise and can be understood making for a better film altogether. We used some of this audio for our trailer such as the 'officer down' audio used for effect at the end. We also had to change the audio levels in premiere for some of the clips such as the music and audio so that it was balanced, i did this through editing the levels in the audio editing section of premier moving the bar up or down depending on the audio.

LO3: Drafts

LO3: Codes and Conventions

Our trailer will follow the conventions of traditional trailers, as if we follow the conventions of trailers, the final trailer will be effective as these codes and conventions have become conventions as a lot of trailers do these things as it draws in the audience the most.

Our trailer will use fast paced and dramatic music, this will be to make the film look exciting and entertaining for the audience to watch, this will make people want to watch the film. This fits with our genre of  crime thriller as thriller movies are meant to be exciting and through using this music we're showing our audience that it is and if they are a fan of crime thrillers then they will be entertained by the trailer and they'll want to watch the film. An example of a movie that uses fast paced exciting music is inception as this movie is an exciting action film and it's clear through the trailer what kind of film it's going to be using the music. This style of soundtrack in films is now very popular amongst trailers as it attracts the audience into watching the final film.

We also will put the title of the film right at the end of the trailer which is conventional to trailers, this is done to inform the audience on the name of the film so if they like the look of the film, they'll know the name of it. Every film trailer will have the name of the film in it as the purpose of the film trailer is to make people watch your film and they can't do this if they don't know the name of the film. It's normally at the end of the trailer so that the audience are more likely to remember the name of the film.

The narrative we will give away in the trailer is a tiny amount of the final narrative but just enough narrative that the audience will want to watch the final film. We won't give away a lot of our film as if we was to give away our whole film then the audience won't be botherd to  watch the final film because they would have bacically watched the whole film in the trailer and there would be nothing left for the audience to see and there would be nothing that they would want to find out about in the final film. However we will give some things away in the narrative as we need to give something away to the audience about the story so they will want to finish the story and inform the audience on what our film is going to be about which is important in a trailer. A similar trailer that only shows part of a narrative is Avengers Infinity war as it introduces us to the narrative, which we can see from the trailer is Thanos trying to get the infinity stones but we don't know wheter he succeeds or not, this is why the audience will end up watching the film.

Another thing we do that follows the conventions is using our production company logo in the trailer this is really just to make sure people know who's making the film. This is usally done with bigger production companies as they'll have a reputation so as soon as people see a certian production company logo such as Pixar they know exactly what kind of movie it's going to be, in Pixars case we know it's probably going to be an animated kids film.

We include the names of our actors in our film, this is done to inform the audience on the actors in the film, most bigger films they will use bigger actors that people will know, therefore they will say who is acting in the films if it's an actor the person watching it likes the actor then their more likely to watch the film.

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LO3: Storyboards linking to shots