This shows good use of editing through slow motion which highlights key parts of the film.
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Monday, 1 November 2010
The Madness Tape (working title) - Trailer
Here is an example of an comedy amateur teaser trailer I found on Youtube:
Exit Through The Gift Shop - Official Trailer
Here is an example of a amateur teaser trailer found on Youtube:
Monday, 18 October 2010
Music
After looking at a range of trailers, we decided that we'd have to include upbeat, happy music to set our trailer to.
Possibilities include:
After looking at a range of trailers, we decided that we'd have to include upbeat, happy music to set our trailer to.
Possibilities include:
- Alphabeat
- Example
- MGMT
- Caesar's Palace - Jerk It Out
- George Michael - Faith
- Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams
- The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
I thought the song could change when he meets the girl his character really clicks with, and I think She's Got You High by Mumm-ra would be a good choice.
posted by sam
Production meeting
We had a production meeting with our tutor today to discuss our progress in planning the trailer. We spoke about locations, synopsis, characters, a shooting schedule, use of music and a possible script.
We came up with a list of locations that are typical to the average teenager, these include: college, a party, the seafront (which will be in Southsea), Hayling fair, in town and a few scenes may be set in the main character's bedroom and at the park
We've already decided on the general synopsis for our film trailer which is the geeky guy trying to find a girlfriend and being quite unsuccessful.
After mind-mapping ideas for different scenes we decided to plan our trailer scene-by-scene.
In the opening scene, our main character will introduce himself: he will be recording a dating profile, like a single's ad. The most likely location will be a boy's bedroom.
We'll include footage of him and his bad dates. We came up with some ideas for what could go wrong: he's playing mini golf (possibly to be shot in Southsea) and accidentally hits his date in the face with a golf club; he could lean in for a goodbye kiss and end up headbutting the girl (similar to the scene in Superbad); he could be eating with a date, and choke on either his drink or food - spitting it all over her; or possibly taking his date to McDonalds after promises of a romantic meal.
Our key scene will be when he meets the girl he'll end up with. We wanted their meeting to be random and a chance encounter, and going with a romantic genre convention we thought he could accidentally bump into her, maybe spilling a drink.
However, we needed something to go wrong with their relationship.
After more mind-mapping we came up with a few ideas:
We had a production meeting with our tutor today to discuss our progress in planning the trailer. We spoke about locations, synopsis, characters, a shooting schedule, use of music and a possible script.
We came up with a list of locations that are typical to the average teenager, these include: college, a party, the seafront (which will be in Southsea), Hayling fair, in town and a few scenes may be set in the main character's bedroom and at the park
We've already decided on the general synopsis for our film trailer which is the geeky guy trying to find a girlfriend and being quite unsuccessful.
After mind-mapping ideas for different scenes we decided to plan our trailer scene-by-scene.
In the opening scene, our main character will introduce himself: he will be recording a dating profile, like a single's ad. The most likely location will be a boy's bedroom.
We'll include footage of him and his bad dates. We came up with some ideas for what could go wrong: he's playing mini golf (possibly to be shot in Southsea) and accidentally hits his date in the face with a golf club; he could lean in for a goodbye kiss and end up headbutting the girl (similar to the scene in Superbad); he could be eating with a date, and choke on either his drink or food - spitting it all over her; or possibly taking his date to McDonalds after promises of a romantic meal.
Our key scene will be when he meets the girl he'll end up with. We wanted their meeting to be random and a chance encounter, and going with a romantic genre convention we thought he could accidentally bump into her, maybe spilling a drink.
However, we needed something to go wrong with their relationship.
After more mind-mapping we came up with a few ideas:
- he could really badly insult her in some way
- accidentally stand her up (e.g. wrong place or time)
- after not having a girl, he could be extremely clingy and possessive over her
- being drunk at a party, he could kiss another girl
We thought the most suitable idea would probably be that he accidentally stands her up, and having had enough of bad dates, she decides that he had his chance and blew it.
The trailer will end with scenes where he's trying to make it up to her - leaving the audience guessing about whether they'll end up together or not.
Finally, we now need to decide on a title and tagline for our film. We also need to come up with a script for the voiceover.
By sophie and sam
Films that inspired us
Previously, while mind-mapping ideas for different scenes I came up with a list of films with funny ideas that inspired us to do something similar.
From The Boat That Rocked, when Chris O'Dowd's character Simon gets dumped after his wedding, there's a scene where he's crying and miming to "Stay With Me Baby" by Lorraine Ellison. I thought that after having trouble with the girl our main character will end up with, we could do something similar e.g. lip synching to the same (or similar) song in his bed, crying.
The 40 Year Old virgin also provided me with some ideas, Steve Carrell's character is taken speed-dating by his friends and there's a serious of disastrous dates.
Although a far fetched idea, the dance sequence used in 500 Days of Summer was something I looked at and a scene from the film I personally love. There are similar themes used in the film to what we're planning to do; a guy desperately trying to get someone unattainable, it's introduced as being a story of boy meets girl - NOT a love story.
posted by sam
Previously, while mind-mapping ideas for different scenes I came up with a list of films with funny ideas that inspired us to do something similar.
From The Boat That Rocked, when Chris O'Dowd's character Simon gets dumped after his wedding, there's a scene where he's crying and miming to "Stay With Me Baby" by Lorraine Ellison. I thought that after having trouble with the girl our main character will end up with, we could do something similar e.g. lip synching to the same (or similar) song in his bed, crying.
The 40 Year Old virgin also provided me with some ideas, Steve Carrell's character is taken speed-dating by his friends and there's a serious of disastrous dates.
Although a far fetched idea, the dance sequence used in 500 Days of Summer was something I looked at and a scene from the film I personally love. There are similar themes used in the film to what we're planning to do; a guy desperately trying to get someone unattainable, it's introduced as being a story of boy meets girl - NOT a love story.
posted by sam
Monday, 11 October 2010
Production Meeting
We began to discuss idea for our own film trailer.
We came up with the idea of a geeky guy trying to find himself a girlfriend and having no idea about how to go about it.
Another idea was to have fast cuts of girls giving their negative and funny opinions of him.
We also thought that the trailer should look like real footage, possibly in a mockumentary style format.
We could film the trailer in a variety of places where teenagers are expected to be such as in college, in the middle of town at the sea front or at a party.
We came up with the idea of a geeky guy trying to find himself a girlfriend and having no idea about how to go about it.
Another idea was to have fast cuts of girls giving their negative and funny opinions of him.
We also thought that the trailer should look like real footage, possibly in a mockumentary style format.
We could film the trailer in a variety of places where teenagers are expected to be such as in college, in the middle of town at the sea front or at a party.
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