Evaluation on Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck 

After remaking an existing trailer we can finally understand how much effort, time and hard work is put into it. We didn't really plan this as we went into it just trying to recreate what we had previously seen in the existing trailer. We knew the characters we wanted to use as it is a basketball film and a member of our group plays basketball so we could use him and we asked another basketball player if he would mind playing. 

What went well: 

We thought what we actually filmed on the day was a fair amount we had sorted our the type of shots we wanted and how we wanted them shot. We knew we needed some shot of each character performing well and the performing badly. We knew the location we were going to use and as it was only a remake one we decided to film in school to keep things simple and saved us hiring out the cameras and tripods.

Even better if: 

It would of been even better if we could of had extra characters and extras so we could of had people in the audience to make it look authentic. If we had a better location instead of the school gym, it could of made it look more professional. Maybe if we had drawn out a storyboard for the remake of the trailer, it could of made it easier to film and plan the shots we needed and how we needed to shoot them. 

Thunderstruck Remake

Dairy: Thursday 08th November 2012

Today, it took a while finishing the in-depth analysis but here is the final outcome of my analysis of The Hangover 2. Thanks to the the useful website: Prezi which has helped massivily to present my work in another way which I was lacking on my blog recently. Now I can focus on the project first-hand, and improve on my work to get the best out of my ability and help my group on our current project we are working on.

In-depth analysis on trailer:The Hangover 2

Trailer analysis: on Prezi

Certificate rating

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Limitation on audience

The type of trailer we are making creates limitation on who will come and view it also. We don't just magically expect the public to want to see it we have to make that happen. Its restricted that males probably don't like cooking film that includes romance, so unless you go and see it with a loved one its unlikely that we will get a large amount of males viewing it. We know that males won't go and see a film with this category and it won't be to their likings because it's mainly attracted to females or couples that prefer watching cooking shows.

The fact that also our film is British, its hard for British films to make it into the box office as we dont have as good reputation compared to American films. We need to make our trailer appeal so a global audience and not just limit it to a british audience. Nevertheless, it can be produced straight to a DVD format as it can sell quicker than producing this film to a box office as the filming industry is a competitive market with good and better films being produced and coming out are high standards compared to a cooking film. But never doubt anything can happen!

Look at Think Like A Man film it produced $60.9million and it's the same genre as our film romance and comedy. Friends With Benefits grossing worldwide $149.5million. A remarkable achievement in the genre and this is the battle we have to face in romantic and comedy genre as it is well ahead and we need to make this work, but the fact is that we know it cannot achieve these high standards, as we don't have financial backing, we have to graft it out and use our own creative skills in making this film a good standard.

Audience Research

From interviewing people roughly our target audience age, i asked them why they would go and see certain films and what attracts them to the trailer and which aspects appeal to them and which ones don't.

Males aged over 25 tend to have interest in action packed films such as James Bond and ones which involve fast cars. Males ages under 25 have similar interest but relate more to sports films which involve football for example or action as well and also fantasy.

Looking at what females are often interested in, females over the age of 25 tend to like Romantic comedies with a stereo type 'good looking' male lead that they can find attractive. Females under the age of 25 tend to also like romantic films with a younger male lead who they can have a 'crush' on.

I interviewed a range of people asking them what their favorite trailer was and why? What attracts you to a trailer and whether music and sound where a big part in you going on to later view the film?

The answers ranged her are a few of them;

Savannah: Her favorite trailer was Hunger games because it makes her want to go see the film, it looks interesting and shows you parts that make you want to see more. She likes action packed films and says if the music and sound is bad it makes the film look boring and she wouldn't go and see it.

Millie: Her favorite trailer is Easy A and one of the reasons why she liked it so much was because of the music in it, also the actors in it as she loves Emma Stone, She thinks music and sound is very important in a trailer and it gives you an idea of what type of film its going to be, for example if the music is upbeat then the film will be upbeat.

Jordan: His favorite trailer is Inception This is because he likes gripping music and suspense, he likes the cliff hangers in the trailer and he agrees music is a huge part to why a trailer.

Ollie: Ollie's favorite trailer is The Hobbit, he loves Lord Of The Rings, he would go see a film if the trailer was exciting and if he liked what the film was about, the music for him has to be dramatic for him to go and see it.


From these answers 2 from girls and 2 from boys shows a correlation in what type of films they like and it fits a certain stereotype but we have to take into consideration that it doesn't apply to everyone. By interviewing a certain amount of people limits our findings as we would need to take a general

Problems to the remake of thunderstruck

Instantly, we acknowledged this is going to be a tough task in remaking the film as we needed actors to participate in our film trailer that needs to be agreed and the days that they are free to make this film trailer work and start filming this recreation of the trailer. However, after we got a date and actors that are ready to participate in the trailer. We know need a location that needs to be settled and free for us to use. After agreeing with the teacher, we got the location being the basketball court arena in our school. The filming happened on a wednesday 3rd october 2012, which we had difficulty to getting use to the camera and the tripod to make the camera steady. After a rusty moments getting use to small camera we started filming. However, they rusty moments in filming the recreation of 'Thunderstruck' is that some footage may be unsteady due to the tripod and handling of the camera which we need to take consideration in our official trailer that will have to be improved and accurate to our knowledge of the equipment we will be using to the footage of the film.

During the editing stage we developed our understanding on the cutting and making the trailer come together, using copyright sounds and using the software 'Livetext' to type the words of the film on the inspiratons and when the film is going to be released. We then adjusted the text length of the size, colour and effects of the words that are going to be in the film trailer and adding the effects of the text on the theme of the trailer 'Thunderstruck'