This is the spot trailer for our film. We watched a few spot trailers before to see the conventions of it compared to full length trailers and there seemed to be more titles and writing than action. We planned to have 5 scenes/locations, however this was hard to get with our actors as it was not as planned so we tried to achieve a few different locations with establishing shots such as one of the house and one of the park. I like that these were a nice background for the text rather than just having a screen of colour, however I still think that we could have included more of a variety of location with the actors between the bits of text. I really liked the camcorder footage we managed to achieve that we put at the start and end of the trailers, and when showing it to some other people in our class, they understood that the girls in this clip were the girls on the swings and the main characters. They also got the message that the girls were best friends, and that they were somehow going to be split up such as one moves or they go to different schools or one dies etc. I liked that we managed to convey a very basic plot and did not give too much away. My only concern with this though is that we did not give enough detail about a narrative to entice audiences, because if they do not know what it is about then they will not know if they want to watch it or not.
I think that you made good use of this practice task.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you think about the quality of the sound, acting, composition of shots?
I expected the sound quality to not be so good as we were just using the microphone from the camera instead of an external one and for this reason we decided to only include one bit of dialogue.
ReplyDeleteOur actors did not have any experience however and I wasn't pleasantly surprised with how natural they were infront of the camera. I especially liked how real the acting on the little girls were in the camcorder footage as it seemed like real stock footage instead of something we had decided to record.
For composition of shots I thought that we start to show a bit of a variety in this shot spot trailer and this will help me going forward in the choice for our full length trailer.