There are 2 types of trailers when it comes to movies. There is the official trailer that people usually see on YouTube and then there is the T.V. commercial trailer. The official trailers are usually about 2:30 minutes long and the T.V. commercial trailers are about 30 seconds long. This trailer is the T.V. one. I am gong to start looking at these trailers for inspiration on how to make my movie trailer because it is the same time limit. I have to make a 30 second movie trailer and I'm researching other movie trailers so I can see how they timed the scenes, how they transitioned between the scenes, and what kind of titling they used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTJ5EF3-4lc
Warner Bros Pictures produced the movie, but I'm not sure who created the trailer.
This is The Conjuring T.V. trailer. I did not actually see this in theaters. I really wanted to though, but no one would go with me. This trailer was 34 seconds long. In the very beginning they showed the producers (Warner Bros Pictures and New Line Cinema) then they showed the scenes. I counted the timing as follows: 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 seconds. Some of the scenes were less than a second. They also had titling. At 7 seconds it said "For Thirty Years," at 9 seconds it said, "Their True Story," at 11 seconds it said, "Was Kept A Secret," at 18 seconds it said, ""On July 19," at 21 seconds it said a quote from Jeffrey Lyons, Lyons Den Radio, then it showed 2 short scenes, then at 23 seconds it showed another quote, then 2 more short scenes, then at 26 seconds it showed another quote, then 2 short scenes, then at 27 seconds it showed the title of the movie and the rating then at 29 seconds it showed the date it was coming out. All of the letters were in all capital letters with the same font, same position, and they were all white letters against a black screen. The titling/phrases had continuity, which is good because that means that the trailer has its own design language. The font looked like it had some dirt or smudges on it, which went well with the rest of the movie.
The scenes went by quickly in this trailer. It was a little slow in the beginning and then the scenes moved to the next one very quickly. A lot of horror film trailers will do that because it makes it goes fast and it makes your heart race because you don't know what's next. The timing goes a little too fast for me. I think they should have some more slow scenes in the middle. They did have one slow scene in the middle. I like that it gets faster at the end of the trailer. They included a lot of information in this trailer. They included clips, quotes, titling, and dates, which is good because you want to get the most information out to your audience in a short amount of time.
They didn't use a whole lot of fancy transitions. Most of the scenes went straight to the next one without any transition. That worked for me because all of the scenes went together. When a scene didn't go together they showed a black screen with titling on it then it went to the next scene. On a couple of the clips they used a quick black flash to move to the next scene. They did a good job on transitioning the scenes together. This trailer also made me a little scared, which is a good thing because if it didn't then it didn't do it's job since it's a horror film. I have to try to make my trailer scare my viewers in a good way.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Paranormal Activity 4 Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Xn2JqH5ng
I have to create a movie trailer for my first digital video project. I love ghost, horror, and paranormal activity movies, so I want to create one. I researched some of the paranormal activity movie trailers. These movies are different from most movies because the whole movie is filmed by people in the actual movie or by cameras in the movie that are set-up to watch things. I can't find out who exactly made this movie trailer, but the directors are Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.
This trailer uses different transitions between the scenes. They include going straight from the next scene, having video static, and black pauses between scenes. I like that they use the video static because it goes along with this movie perfectly and it gives a spooky effect especially when the camera breaks during a scene. Its good that they didn't use the video static in every transition because that would be boring and repetitive. In the beginning of the movie they show some text in the middle of the screen. They show the location, date, and information about Kate and Hunter from the previous movie in a simple font. I might show similar text in my movie trailer since I'm doing a ghost/paranormal movie trailer. When they show clips from the security cameras they include a time at the bottom right to make it realistic, which I like because then I can follow what times things happened. That might be a little hard for me to create unless the stock footage I choose has a timer on the bottom. I noticed that almost all movie trailers gives the time frame of when the movie is coming out, like this movie trailer says, "This October." When a movie gets closer to the release date it usually says the exact date. I have decide what time frame I want my movie to come out and show that in the trailer.
The clips go a little fast in the beginning and then it slows down in the middle. Some of the scenes are 3-5 seconds long. At about 1:44 mins the clips starts to get really fast and then one clip is about 5 seconds long and then it shows another 1 second clip then it's over. This trailer also shows the title of the movie at the end. I like how they timed this trailer. My movie trailer is only 30 seconds long instead of 2:11mins, but I can still use similar timing in my trailer.
Every time I watch this movie trailer I get goosebumps. It creeps me out and that's what I love about it. I don't want to see a scary movie if I don't feel scared during the movie trailer. I want my movie trailer to have the same creepy, scary, goosebump effect.
I have to create a movie trailer for my first digital video project. I love ghost, horror, and paranormal activity movies, so I want to create one. I researched some of the paranormal activity movie trailers. These movies are different from most movies because the whole movie is filmed by people in the actual movie or by cameras in the movie that are set-up to watch things. I can't find out who exactly made this movie trailer, but the directors are Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.
This trailer uses different transitions between the scenes. They include going straight from the next scene, having video static, and black pauses between scenes. I like that they use the video static because it goes along with this movie perfectly and it gives a spooky effect especially when the camera breaks during a scene. Its good that they didn't use the video static in every transition because that would be boring and repetitive. In the beginning of the movie they show some text in the middle of the screen. They show the location, date, and information about Kate and Hunter from the previous movie in a simple font. I might show similar text in my movie trailer since I'm doing a ghost/paranormal movie trailer. When they show clips from the security cameras they include a time at the bottom right to make it realistic, which I like because then I can follow what times things happened. That might be a little hard for me to create unless the stock footage I choose has a timer on the bottom. I noticed that almost all movie trailers gives the time frame of when the movie is coming out, like this movie trailer says, "This October." When a movie gets closer to the release date it usually says the exact date. I have decide what time frame I want my movie to come out and show that in the trailer.
The clips go a little fast in the beginning and then it slows down in the middle. Some of the scenes are 3-5 seconds long. At about 1:44 mins the clips starts to get really fast and then one clip is about 5 seconds long and then it shows another 1 second clip then it's over. This trailer also shows the title of the movie at the end. I like how they timed this trailer. My movie trailer is only 30 seconds long instead of 2:11mins, but I can still use similar timing in my trailer.
Every time I watch this movie trailer I get goosebumps. It creeps me out and that's what I love about it. I don't want to see a scary movie if I don't feel scared during the movie trailer. I want my movie trailer to have the same creepy, scary, goosebump effect.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Fast 6 Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP7pH4pqC5A
The Fast and Furious movie series has always been my favorite series/movies. I absolutely love all of the movies and I get excited when I see the new movie trailer. I never really noticed how movie trailers are put together though. This movie trailer is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. I have to make a 30 seconds original movie trailer with stock footage, so I am researching movie trailers and looking at different styles.
I'm not exactly sure who made this movie trailer, but it says Universal during the trailer. All movie trailers all different, like how they time the clips or how many pauses/black screens they put in between clips. Fast 6 is pretty slow in the beginning and shows some long scenes. The longest clip is about 3 seconds long. In the middle of the trailer they have about a 2 second black screen. The whole team (people) is talking and then it goes into a black screen then it goes into a racing scene with music. Sometimes they will show a black fade in between scenes and other times it will just go directly to the next scene. They even have a scene where they show a picture of Letty and then there is a white flash then it shows a close up of the picture. Between 0:46 and 0:51 seconds (about 5 seconds) they show a series of about 7 different scenes that are less than 1 second long and between each scene they show a black flash. It's a little annoying that they have a black flash between each scene, but it does create a different feeling, like something bigger is about to happen. I think they did that to transition between the scenes better because the scenes are totally different and it wouldn't make sense if they showed the scenes without some kind of break in between them. If they did that during the entire movie trailer I wouldn't like it and it wouldn't be has effective. About halfway through the trailer is says, "Universal Pictures Presents" and then continues with the rest of the trailer. At 1:48 mins it says "This Summer," at 2:04 mins it says "All Roads," at 2:10 mins says "Lead To This," and that at 2:29 mins it says "Fast & Furious 6." All of the text is in the same font and style which is good because it gives continuity to the whole trailer. That's something I need to think about. I need to include text in my trailer and making all the text the same style will make people realize that it belongs to my specific movie trailer.
I like the way they did this Fast & Furious 6 movie trailer. Some of the clips went straight to the next clip without any transition, some had a full black scene between the clips, and then some had a black flash between scenes. There are a lot of different transitions I can do between scenes when I make my movie trailer. It was a good idea to use a black flash between scenes that didn't go together because they were from a different part of the movie. If they didn't use any transitions this movie trailer wouldn't make sense and it wouldn't look right to people who were watching it.
They show a lot of different scenes. I've seen the movie and I know that they show clips from the very beginning to the middle and the end of the movie. They don't show the movie title in the beginning of the trailer. They actually show it at the end and a lot of movie trailers do that nowadays. They also show text multiple times throughout the movie trailer. People have to watch the whole movie trailer to put all of the text together for it to makes sense, which is a trick to get people to watch the whole trailer. I have to make sure that I grab my audience's attention throughout the whole trailer.
The Fast and Furious movie series has always been my favorite series/movies. I absolutely love all of the movies and I get excited when I see the new movie trailer. I never really noticed how movie trailers are put together though. This movie trailer is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. I have to make a 30 seconds original movie trailer with stock footage, so I am researching movie trailers and looking at different styles.
I'm not exactly sure who made this movie trailer, but it says Universal during the trailer. All movie trailers all different, like how they time the clips or how many pauses/black screens they put in between clips. Fast 6 is pretty slow in the beginning and shows some long scenes. The longest clip is about 3 seconds long. In the middle of the trailer they have about a 2 second black screen. The whole team (people) is talking and then it goes into a black screen then it goes into a racing scene with music. Sometimes they will show a black fade in between scenes and other times it will just go directly to the next scene. They even have a scene where they show a picture of Letty and then there is a white flash then it shows a close up of the picture. Between 0:46 and 0:51 seconds (about 5 seconds) they show a series of about 7 different scenes that are less than 1 second long and between each scene they show a black flash. It's a little annoying that they have a black flash between each scene, but it does create a different feeling, like something bigger is about to happen. I think they did that to transition between the scenes better because the scenes are totally different and it wouldn't make sense if they showed the scenes without some kind of break in between them. If they did that during the entire movie trailer I wouldn't like it and it wouldn't be has effective. About halfway through the trailer is says, "Universal Pictures Presents" and then continues with the rest of the trailer. At 1:48 mins it says "This Summer," at 2:04 mins it says "All Roads," at 2:10 mins says "Lead To This," and that at 2:29 mins it says "Fast & Furious 6." All of the text is in the same font and style which is good because it gives continuity to the whole trailer. That's something I need to think about. I need to include text in my trailer and making all the text the same style will make people realize that it belongs to my specific movie trailer.
I like the way they did this Fast & Furious 6 movie trailer. Some of the clips went straight to the next clip without any transition, some had a full black scene between the clips, and then some had a black flash between scenes. There are a lot of different transitions I can do between scenes when I make my movie trailer. It was a good idea to use a black flash between scenes that didn't go together because they were from a different part of the movie. If they didn't use any transitions this movie trailer wouldn't make sense and it wouldn't look right to people who were watching it.
They show a lot of different scenes. I've seen the movie and I know that they show clips from the very beginning to the middle and the end of the movie. They don't show the movie title in the beginning of the trailer. They actually show it at the end and a lot of movie trailers do that nowadays. They also show text multiple times throughout the movie trailer. People have to watch the whole movie trailer to put all of the text together for it to makes sense, which is a trick to get people to watch the whole trailer. I have to make sure that I grab my audience's attention throughout the whole trailer.
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