Movie Trailer: Analysis

I think on the whole, our move trailer was quite successful considering all the difficulty we had with various things, not that this should be an excuse it wasn't easy. Every bit of technology that could have gone wrong has or did go wrong. From my phone which we filmed it from, to the software on my laptop, to the college's systems it hasn't been an easy thing to complete, but we managed to get the film trailer, poster and magazine cover complete to a fairly high standard.

There are a few rough edges with the final, complete trailer. The thing that sticks out in my mind is the lack of definition that filming at night. It was a long-shot filming the whole trailer from an iPhone, we were never going to be able to create the same atmosphere from the clips that you would normally expect in a film trailer, filmed in high definition. But for the resources we had I feel that the filming side of things were fairly good. There were a few things which weren't as refined as I could have possibly made them, the first being the music, towards the end Movie Maker decided that the volume of the music needed to lower to enhance the sound effects from the video, I don't quite understand how it did this because the editing process for that particular clip was exactly the same as all of the other clips we filmed.

The next problem with the final trailer that I know was an issue was the last clip that we filmed in the trailer, when we filmed it, I didn't think about covering the camera, the idea being that it blacked out and you would hear the sound of the saw being used. To provide the sound we used a block of wood, a wet rag and the back of the saw, and it sounded fairly realistic, but if you pay particular attention to the clip, you will notice that you can still in fact see the saw, dim it may be.

Overall I think the trailer was a successful final piece, although I think the quality of the poster and the magazine cover were a lot better because of the few rough edges we had with the trailer. It's very easy for myself to sit here and talk about all of the things that went wrong with the film trailer because I was hands on with the trailer the whole time, I edited it, I filmed a portion of it, and the clips were on my phone, so I knew what the bad bits of the film trailer were going to be before I even put the clips together in Movie Maker. Although I could have ironed some of the problems out I left them in for 2 reasons, the first is that I don't have 3 hours to spare nitpicking at every slight little detail of the film, I mean I could have edited every single clip in one program to make them look more visually stimulating, and then used an editing suite to edit the whole thing together, but if I was going to do that I probably would have used a DSLR camera and lighting equipment to film the whole trailer. I'm happy with the way it has turned out and the way that the whole project has developed since we started it.

-Ben