Props

GCSE Trailer analysis

Me and my partner Claire made a trailer in 2011 for a Horror film called the 'Ghost walk'



Looking back at this trailer now I see so many faults and things we could of changed and I also know the importance of a strong planning and research to produce a good trailer.

When making this trailer we had very little planning before we went and filmed, we had a very weak script and storyboard so a lot was improvised and I think this showed in the trailer. I know know that all this needs to be strong when going to film. We also used our friends as actors, not all of them were comfortable in front of camera and this came across. We also gave very little thought to costume of all the characters.

The range of shots we used were also all very similar and were mainly extreme long shots which was not conventional to horror movies at all. Our filming was also very unsteady and and the pans and tilts were wobbly and didn't flow very well.

However, from doing this trailer as well it has given us more experience and better knowledge of how to film a good trailer. I would rather have made mistakes then and be able to learn from them so we know how to make it better now.

Synopsis

Me and Claire have written our synopsis for our film; we are going to pick out main parts of the synopsis to use in the trialer. However we don't want to tell the whole story as it needs the have an enigma but needs to tell enough for the story to make sense.

Deconstruction of The Box film trailer

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Deconstruction of The Box film poster

Teaser trailer remake

When we were first given this project we wanted to do something a bit different to everyone else and wanted to try and do a 'Teen Musical'. We remade the School of Rock (2003) trailer to see weather this was the genre we wanted to do and how easy it would be to make this kind of trailer.



The first problem we came across was that we couldn't find any adults that had the time or wanted to come and act in our trailer, so we had to use our friends to play the character. We also found that some of them didn't want to spend ages helping us so we had only a few hours to film the whole thing and meant we also had to cut out a lot of it to fit it all in.

Another problem we had was that we couldn't gather enough people together at the same time as everyone had certain commitments so our class looked very sparse and unrealistic. The last problem we had was that some of them weren't comfortable with acting in front of a lot of people so it looked quite unrealistic for this reason as well.

Overall we decided that we maybe setting ourselves up to fail by choosing this genre as if we had this many problems for the practise, the final trailer could end quite badly. Therefore we decided to change which genre we would like to do. This is the end result of our teaser trailer



I'm glad we made the teaser trailer as it highlighted the problems and showed that it would have been a bad idea to have done this genre.

Teaser trailer

For our A2 coursework we are going to be producing a teaser trailer. A teaser trailer is part of the marketing campaign for a film, they are used to 'tease' the audience and to create a hype for the film. They create an enigma and mystery about the film that makes the audience want to go and see it.

They are a variation of a film trailer and are used to tell the audience that the film is coming rather than telling the story like in the theatrical trailer. The teaser trailers are usually made and released while the film is still being filmed or edited.

They usually contain little or no dialogue, are a montage of scenes from the film and last 1:30-1:45 minutes. Another one of their conventions is that the don't give a specific release date like the theatrical trailer but a general time e.g. 'This Summer'. 

This is an example of a teaser trailer and a theatrical trailer.

This is the teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

This is the theatrical trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince