Final cut of Film trailer

Uploading my final cut of my film trailer to YouTube.

Uploading from Premiere Pro CC (2014) to YouTube, I actually used a YouTube video tutorial showing and explaining to me how this is done and now I know how to do this in the future. Below is the link to my YouTube channel and the trailer for my A2 piece.

Follow this link to get to my YouTube channel and my final piece.

Evaluation of A2 Media Coursework

These are examples of times when I have used these technologies above, such as the image on the left is when I have used powerpoint to put together collages of my research to fully understand the genre.

The image underneath is when I was using premier elements to make my video and then this was uploaded to YouTube, I had used this before towards the end of year 12 to understand how it worked, also I used some videos on YouTube on tutorials on how to make sure a video looks good.                   

Movie Poster - Ancillary Task 2

Here is my movie poster, I done some research into font types and found that there is a tag line 1 which has the names of the actors and 2 which has the names of co-writers and executives etc, I have made some of this up to create the poster, the title which is in the middle, not quite a master head and the image in the background of the church. There is also the PG -13 box on the bottom left to show age restriction for the film, which because my film trailer does not involve gore or sexual scenes is given a PG - 13. I also have the release date in a completely different colour to stand out to the audiences who would pass this poster. 

Film Magazine - Ancillary Task 1

From looking at the format research on film magazines the most popular came to be Empire.

Empire magazine is a British film magazine and published monthly. It is sold in the UK, US, Australia, Turkey, Russia and Portugal. 

The image on the left is my magazine front cover, advertising my film, it shows the generic conventions of a magazine, the USP (Unique selling point) the house style which is showing which is red, white and black, the overall house style of the magazine would be able to attract the audience ans the flow of the colour translating to the audience. The USP is in a different colour compared to the rest of the text and the colour contrasts to the red undertone, the plus sign above the USP is one that is popularly used in this type of magazine. 

The barcode on the right would be hidden more when in a rack full of other magazines and the audience not fully knowing the price of the magazine, however seeing what is in the magazine before seeing the price. So in other words being attracted to the little information that is on the front of the magazine and wanting it before seeing the price. So I have chosen to use the convention of having a left third, something which I learnt in AS media to learn how to attract and appeal to different audiences. Where the information in the red box at the bottom is, I made the edges less straight on the sides, for example the top edge has little bits of brush effect over the live this is to make the cover look less serious for the brand.

The house colour of the magazine is red, white and black and then the background image from my shoot at the church location. The background image I chose because although it gives away a location it does not give away any of the storyline or the genre etc of the film. 

Fantasy film trailers

As you can see from the images above, the use of a circular or opening in the image is quite popular in this genre. The film posters above all have a background with a characters outline in the middle and some with the other character surrounding the main. The use of background image can also show the type of time period the film is in , for example the 'Enders Game' shows that it is futuristic and sci-fi, The 'Legend of Guardians' shows up front that it is an animation which the film title would not suggest. For the clear popular use of this design on the front covers I will be using this idea and creating my own take on it. 

This mindmap showing the variety of the film trailers from format research really helps show the designs of the posters and how regularly this design is used. 

Film Posters

So I have been looking at film posters, trying to compare use of colour, font and types of images. For example, the use of the sky as a background, or a built-up area, or city in the background is also used. However, there are the film posters such as 'warm bodies' which has a simple 'stand-out' colour to it, the use of red in the poster, can represent blood and love, although, can be used to show danger and love also. The colour is also one that stands out from other film posters, if you were to go to a cinema and see these groups of film posters all lined up, the 'warm bodies' is more likely to grab your attention due to their use of the colour, whilst having the larger font in white, and title in black, it is quite unusual to have the title smaller than the line which gives an idea about what will happen in the film, however this is used very effectively. 

I grabbed a few different film trailers from different years, for a reason, this was to have a look at how over the years the design of film trailers can change.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone came out in cinemas on the 4th November 2001 

SuckerPunch came out on the 25th March 2011

These two films have nearly ten years between them, yet looking at the posters there is not a lot of difference, other than the colour used, font and characters, however, if you look at the layout of the characters they are not too different, the main character has a larger image than the others and the other character surround the main. The use of the 'Harry Potter' font and title has become very well known, especially with it's 8 films, whereas the other film 'suckerpunch' has only one film and not as well known as Harry Potter.

The majority of the film posters above have more than one person on the front, or like the 'if i stay' poster which has smaller images of the same couple. The male and female and male characters are linked in some way on the image or an overlapping of the images, for example the 'Beautiful creatures' poster the young female and male couple have their arms around each other or touching one another. Also in the movie poster for 'Divergent' there is also that overlapping of the male and female character in the image. 

Editing

When I finished looking at the tutorials on YouTube about the best way to edit certain effects in, I went about trying them out, for example in the still images on the left, these are two of the tutorials that I looked at. The first was to include a split-screen into the trailer, and then the second was overlapping two videos, which was done by entering the first clip into the second video section of the adobe premiere elements 11, and then the overlapping part of the video into the first video section above the other, then to render the newly edited clips and to play and make sure the timing and overlapping of the clips are in time with one another and where you want them, in my video I had the clip of Shannon appearing in front of the clip of the church that I took at night.