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.