We started by selecting clips to use at the beginning of the trailer a.k.a. The beginning of the film where the two lead characters fall in love. We wanted to ensure the clips were short and snappy to tie well as a narrative. We realised that real trailers have generally filmed most or whole of the film before releasing the trailer and therefore crating a trailer from scratch and then having to find and collect enough clips is very difficult. We as a group also wanted to be able to show the transition between the equilibrium and the disequilibrium and therefore needed some form of transitional sound and clip. When filming this part we filmed the two main characters lying in bed in different positions and clothing giving the idea of time passing, at the end of the clip in which the female character would be shot alone. when we got back to school and uploaded the clips onto final cut we were able to speed the clips up so the whole section only lasted seconds, we thought this was a really effective technique in changing the mood of the trailer from 'happy and in love' to 'sad and alone'.
After we had done this, the film trailer then took a more serious tone and in order to create this tone we used a voice over, we used the sound of the female character because she is the one in the film to be left alone, romantic films often use a voice over to move the narrative along and the narate the thoughts and feelings of one of the main characters, we created our voice over using an edi role recorder, we then transfered the sound file onto our final cut project and was able to break and split up the phrases to dramatise the trailer, I think the use of a voiceover was a very effective technique, and added extra sound that was needed in our trailer.
Trailers always have some form of titles as an inital component to their trailers, films either include the names of the actors, actresses and directors etc. or some form of narrative about whats going to happen and to give the audience a form of suspense, some trailers even include both; our trailer however, chose to use the naming titles because this is the one most often seen in romantic drama's like ourselves. in order to make the titles of our film we researched many romantic movie trailers and found that many of them used a photograph effect called bokeh this effect is like blurred lighting which appear like dots as there not in focus, this technique is used in many of the romantic trailers we researched and therefore wanted to create our own in order to do this we used an SLR camera with a recording function, and a small depth of field to film gold coloured lighting, after we were happy with our filming we uploaded it onto our film in small sections, then to make the writing itself we used the program 'Live Type' we only wanted the titles for the names of the two leading actors and an award so therefore three different slides, we were unsure on what type of font to use and the colour of it but finally decided on a simple font in a black colour we thought this was the most effective and contrasting against the gold bokeh, after we had added the text the last thing we needed to do was edit in the final slides of the title of the film, to do this we made a black background and pasted our logo for our film onto the slide we then tranistioned in the words 'released 2012' the word released suggests at our narrative of something being related to prison, which ties with the logo and handcuff idea. We then did the same for our billing block and social network slide.
Towards the end of the trailer clips go back and fourth from the male character Chase being seen as a 'thug' with a baseball bat and the female character 'Lilly' crying the clips have been timed with the music, we decided to use the same track throughout the trailer of Ed Sheeran- Give Me Love because this track expresses the two diiferent sides we needed in the trailer of calm and gentle music and then loud and dramtic we were able to cut and start the music over the voiceover from the calm music to the end of the track where the music is much more dramatic; the lyrics "M-my my, m-my my, m-my my, give me love, lover," are repeated throughout the thug scene and we though this was really effective.
another editing technique used was the rewind setting on final cut, we wanted to quickly speed up and rewind the happy begining part of the trailer, this was done for a number of creative reasons, it was done in the trailer at a part where Chase needs to be remineded on what he is missing out on and therefore by doing this it acts asd a reminder of exactly that, the whole transition only lasts secounds but also remidns the audience on the type of film they are watching and how things can go so wrong, the scene juxta poses with the beginging making it very effective.
Trailers always have some form of titles as an inital component to their trailers, films either include the names of the actors, actresses and directors etc. or some form of narrative about whats going to happen and to give the audience a form of suspense, some trailers even include both; our trailer however, chose to use the naming titles because this is the one most often seen in romantic drama's like ourselves. in order to make the titles of our film we researched many romantic movie trailers and found that many of them used a photograph effect called bokeh this effect is like blurred lighting which appear like dots as there not in focus, this technique is used in many of the romantic trailers we researched and therefore wanted to create our own in order to do this we used an SLR camera with a recording function, and a small depth of field to film gold coloured lighting, after we were happy with our filming we uploaded it onto our film in small sections, then to make the writing itself we used the program 'Live Type' we only wanted the titles for the names of the two leading actors and an award so therefore three different slides, we were unsure on what type of font to use and the colour of it but finally decided on a simple font in a black colour we thought this was the most effective and contrasting against the gold bokeh, after we had added the text the last thing we needed to do was edit in the final slides of the title of the film, to do this we made a black background and pasted our logo for our film onto the slide we then tranistioned in the words 'released 2012' the word released suggests at our narrative of something being related to prison, which ties with the logo and handcuff idea. We then did the same for our billing block and social network slide.
Towards the end of the trailer clips go back and fourth from the male character Chase being seen as a 'thug' with a baseball bat and the female character 'Lilly' crying the clips have been timed with the music, we decided to use the same track throughout the trailer of Ed Sheeran- Give Me Love because this track expresses the two diiferent sides we needed in the trailer of calm and gentle music and then loud and dramtic we were able to cut and start the music over the voiceover from the calm music to the end of the track where the music is much more dramatic; the lyrics "M-my my, m-my my, m-my my, give me love, lover," are repeated throughout the thug scene and we though this was really effective.
another editing technique used was the rewind setting on final cut, we wanted to quickly speed up and rewind the happy begining part of the trailer, this was done for a number of creative reasons, it was done in the trailer at a part where Chase needs to be remineded on what he is missing out on and therefore by doing this it acts asd a reminder of exactly that, the whole transition only lasts secounds but also remidns the audience on the type of film they are watching and how things can go so wrong, the scene juxta poses with the beginging making it very effective.
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