Brain Storm

This is brain storming the ideas of the cake trailer, on the contribution of what a trailer should include. This encouraged us to build ideas and include the ones we needed for our trailer for example the genre we listed several ideas on what our trailer we want to create.

Remake of a Trailer: Thunderstruck

The part we are going to remake is the change of the abilities of the 2 basketball players. One in the trailer 'Kevin Durant' is a NBA basketball player who has got all the natural ability on being the best. However, the players change their abilities with one player being good and the NBA player losing his natural ability.

We want to build upon this trailer, and make it into our unique version of this film trailer: by editing our video from the camera, and adding the same features that are in this trailer for example 'One Wish'  In bold yellow and blue colours with effects of the words in the trailer to make it different but in our ability to make original with a twist.

However, the difficulty of this trailer, is that the Mise En Scene is at a basketball court but it has a packed crowed which we may not have due to the time length we have to make and edit the film trailer.

Mood Board

This is our representation of the trailer of cakes, with food orientated being bright, sweet and full of color. Which sticks to the mind of the pictures being used.

100 Word Synopsis

Piece of Cake

The two leading roles are competing for a cake competition, the final is coming up and they need to make their cake the best. There is a hiccup along the way as they start falling for each other but they are meant to enemies. They end up helping each other and the final doesn’t go to plan but who will win, or will they share the prize of having their own cake shop. The big day is here and tension is at its highest will they put their feelings first or the prize, with tears, passion and some hard work, what will happen? 

Planner for practice trailer of the remake of Thunderstruck

Planner:
"Dan is a professional basketball player with elliot hedge-porter a novice player trying to get better at basketball, so elliot wishes he has Daniel's powers and while this is being said, they both touching the ball and that's when everything starts to change. The Professional basketball players becomes rubbish as he misses several shots and Elliot Hedge-Porter becomes a great player, taking the ability and skills from Dan"



Editing process...


Actors starring in the remake trailer

Elliot Hedge-Porter

Daniel Alaka

Taylor Gray

Kevin Durant

One sentence pitch

Source: Xtranormal

We used Xtranormal website for our one sentence pitch to illustrate and show it in a animation on what are pitch is going to be like. The pitch is:

You have to break a few eggs for a perfect cake, Now she has all the right ingredients for true love.

Inspirations

Inspiration on the candy and cakes used in a music trailer, to know how the cakes are represented to the audience.

Charlie and Chocolate factory: Representation of cakes, on the camera use to know if it's a close up shot or a rule of third shots. The usage of Mise En Scene used in this video as it's full of props to get an example of what they use in the shot so we can identify these stages and use it in our "It's a piece of cake" trailer

I've used a music and a film trailer to see the difference in the usage of the camera angles and to know how it's all represented in a place of a camera shot.  The placement of cakes and sweets is directly used and pointed at the camera to approach the audience eyes on the tender, loving, care of cakes. The usage of how much fun and enjoyment they have in the music and film video. In addition the colours that brings atention to itself, giving the sweets and cakes it's own character. This is what we need in our trailer about cakes, giving the cakes a bit of character and fun upon this trailer to signify and connotates the symbol of romance in the trailer.

Representation of Cakes

Source: Wordle

We created this list of words that are imaginative and symbolic to the theme of the trailer, on being about cakes. The cake is broken down to add the simplistic of the words and what we think about the cakes that we like about it as it's going to be a major influence in our trailer.

What is a Film Trailer?

A film trailer is a short promotional advert for an upcoming film. The trailer for a film must encourage us to want to see a film and should give us a real taste of what the film is like.

Film Trailers: Contrast and Differences

Contrast

The five film trailers that I have analyzed have their differences in genre to the length of the trailer. Each trailer has its own unique point to a film; by its characters or costume used in the trailer that we all recognize as it is iconic to the audience eyes for example,  the trailer ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has it’s iconic figure of batman character and costume that the audience can understand too, laying an interest to the film.  Ice age has its group of friends like Sid, Manny and Diego that are iconic to their own film. Whilst Taken 2 iconic point of view is the character Bryan Mills trying to rescue his family. Think Like A Man already has it’s recognised characters from the spot light of comedians (Kevin Hart) or from an Musical Artist (Chris Brown or Keri Hilson) this will have an extended audience from their current jobs to the film showing and gaining more interests to the film. Lastly, Ted is a talking teddy bear that a child wished for comes to life. Is an animated character that has a freedom of life that he exploits in the film doing crazy things, but the comparison to the film Think Like A Man is that both contains the same genre, Comedy. However, the similarities could be said to The Dark Knight Rises and Taken 2 that both contain the genre: action and thriller. Nevertheless, Ice age; continental drift, is animated that has the similarities of Ted. 

 

Trailers on PhotoPeach

Film Trailer: Ice Age Continental Drift

Ice Age: Continental Drift Poster

Film Trailer: Ice Age Continental Drift

Ice Age: Continental Drift

The length of the trailer is 2m 27s with snippets of comedy. As this film is an animation aimed at a family audience because of the sketch of characters focused on animals that a family: especially the kids can respond too as it is easy to understand and entertain the audience from the shapes to the colors of the characters. In addition, the genre of the film being an animated comedy.

The narration is about Manny, Diego and Sid go on a greatest adventure that has been triggered by continental drift; the earth shattering causes mayhem. On their adventure, the trailer consists of Sid being reunited by his family and the gang encounters new characters on trying to stop them from returning home.

The transition of the text appearing in the trailer is a quick, snappy and direct to the point, influencing straightly to the their target audience. which flows nicely with the background 'Score' music being energetic and quick.

Editing: The editing of Ice age trailer is at a steady pace, with the verge of ellipsis been taken place to include an opening of the characters. Therefore: the action of the land breaking up and concluding the name of the film: Continental Drift being part of the trailer, adding geographical features in an animated film, this could be linked to Mise-En-Scene of the setting of the location being established earlier in the trailer.

Sound: A narrator speaking about the storyline of the film, which a statement he says 'We Keep it together' which evolves around the pack of Manny, Diego and Sid working together as a family. This gives us an indication of happy families: metaphorically being animals. Which states it being a family audience were children can laugh and enjoy the film.  In ways we here diegetic sounds coming from the frame: where it's personifies on animals talking to each other, so they have a voice that adds humour and action to the film.

Film Trailer: Think Like A Man

Think Like A Man Poster

Film Trailer: Think Like A Man

Think Like A Man

The length of the trailer is 2m 43s that shows a significant of comedy and romance that evolves in the genre, due to the characters that are based around a comedy background or the characters are from a showbiz lifestyle that makes this film funny and over dramatic that is shown by the name of the film ‘Think Like A Man’

The narration is about four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using Steve Harvey’s relationship advice against them, so the ladies can understand  more about the men lifestyle and the way that they work around their own woman.  With the trailer over-looking on the establish characters in the film, for example in the basketball court, shows a group of friends that are bunch together, showing that they are the main characters. Which gives the audience, an insight on how good the film is by the trailer and what characters are being played in the film.

The narrator speaks for a short time in the trailer, with mostly the main establish characters being in the frame-talking. However, the wipe transition of the slides changing from one side to another side, tells the audience a story from the 2m clip on what the audience might see in the film. With the characters being over dramatic and extravagant.

Editing: Firstly, a shot and reverse shot of Kevin Hart in a basketball court talking to his mates, but argueing in this case, to a tall black basketball player, an eye line match of two characters talking to each other. But Kevin Hart is being too cockey and extravagant, which represents his character in the film. However, it can be based upon gender, whilst mostly males are strong and built up to play sports mainly. instantly a stereotype of black culture desire on playing basketball in which we have here. Nevertheless, a height difference of black basketball player being tall and strong in opposite side a small kevin hart being cockey and ridiculous.  During the scene, we come upon a crosscutting scene where it's interweaving of two or more seperate scenes, this gives clues on what the audience might see, not giving too much away or too little. it's a balance of both mixture of editing.

Film Trailer: Taken 2

Taken 2 Poster

Film Trailer: Taken 2

Taken 2

The length of the trailer 2m 23s shows snippet of action and thriller evolving around the genre, with the trailer being fast pace, with flashbacks from the original Taken on the kidnapping of his daughter.  Vice-versa, to Taken 2 where the narration of the trailer is about the family of former government operative Bryan Mills is targeted once again when his wife gets kidnapped, where the film is set in Istanbul, this is linked to Mise En Scene, the setting of the film on the loaction on where it's based upon. In addition, to the narration, there is establishment of characters that have a strong-bond relationship for example the Mum and daughter are seen at the start of the trailer signifying their importance in the film.

The characters that signify more in the trailer are important in the film for example: At the start of the trailer the daughter says 'Dad' in a calm and cool tone of voice. Representing straight away the symbol of family! Denotation of a Father and daughter figure and bond with each other when they hug. Although connotation of family being hurt by the bad people but brings attentions and fear upon the trailer to see if the mother is going to be saved by her husband but a long hard battle and barriers are upon him. Which keeps us interested in the film.

Although the music is based around the ambient sound signifying the importance of the action in the film but the transitions are fast, quick and snappy. Giving the tone of the film being exuberant and thrilling, keeping you on your edge of your feet, building up the tension.  This also involves the text showing the date of release and the characters starring in the film, is an importance to let the audience know who is in the film and the important information they need to know about. Nevertheless, the diegetic sound of the drumming beats ensure tensions and dramatic drama is continued and it keeps the audience interested.

Taken 2 on Prezi

Film Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises Poster

Film Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises

The length of the trailer is 2m 20s showing fighting scenes, crime, a bit of romance with the explosive and entertaining machinery used in the film that is represented in the trailer. The trailer conveys snippets of scenes consisting of action and thriller evolving in the genre. The establishment of characters are shown early on in the trailer for example the enemy ‘Bane’ is shown a couple of times, meaning he is the one of the main characters in the film. Therefore, the audience can understand the establishing characters in the film but the film has left some of the action out to surprise the audience and entice them with thrills and spills, to keep them edge of their feet. 

The narrative of this trailer The Dark Knight Rises is a terrorist leader Bane that pushes the police force to their limits, forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after taking the fall for Harvey Dent’s crimes. The mood of the trailer is suspicious and suspense from the eccentric background music of the trailer; this gives a sense of tone of the action in the film on what might happen next towards the audience eyes to keep them entertained and thrilled. 

The diegetic sound is used at the start of the trailer with a boy singing the american national anthem in a  american football stadium influencing with a snippets of a gun in the frame. However, the whole concept of the american anthem symbolising innocence and peaceful doesn't prepare you on what might happen in the trailer later on. 

Editing: The editing is slow pace, as it's gradually build up the tension within the film and trailer. As the trailer has a slow starter, to introduce the characters that are in the film therefore having a short take on what the characters are going to be like in the film. As we want to know the chracteristic of each chracters on part they play in the film: giving the audience the opportunity to feel the emotion of these characters to know how they will resemble in the film on what clues they give us, to know who is the enemy or hero in the film.  This could be seen by the use of action match editing: between batman and bane when they're fighting each other, the brutal strength of both characters trying defeat each other. 

Dark Knight Rises Trailer on Prezi

Film Trailer: Ted

Ted Poster















                            Film Trailer: Ted

Ted

The length of the trailer is 2 minutes and 30 seconds, which exploits the important parts of the film that are funny and amusing to watch that sets the tone of the characters. They are mainstreamed towards the audience eyes, so they have an interest on what they have seen on the trailer that suits the audience type to go and watch it in the cinema.

The Genre for the film Ted is comedy as it represented in a way that’s funny and adult humour to the audience, so they can laugh and enjoy the film. 

The narrative of this trailer evolves around adult humour and comedy; that follows a man and his teddy bear, who comes to life as the result of a childhood wish. My first insight of the trailer gives a snippet of a lazy, independent and a sense of freedom the character Ted has with his partner. 

The narration is a male speaking with the tone of his speech being deep, speaking about the story of Ted who comes to life as the result of a childhood wish. The narration speaks about some parts of the scenes in trailer, as a story so the audience can understand what the film is about from their first insight.  This could justify if they have an interest in the trailer by a mixture of comedy, action and romance in one frame that catches the eyes of audience. 

Ted Trailer on Prezi