FMP - Week 2 Overview

In week two I carried looking at more film trailers as there is an endless amount of them available to me through the internet. I then went on to choose a handful of films that I especially liked and could take features from for my project. They were quite diverse in genres and narratives however each related to my project in some way.

I had realised my now that concept of file sharing isn't very exciting to watch so wanted to focus on more of the break down and building of new relationships due to this power the characters gain. So the majority of these films had extremely good narratives in conjunction with how our actions can have strain and effect others around us. This gave me a list of ideas and scenarios I could try and put my character into, increasing the drama and tension within the movie taking it further than the original idea. Ideas from car crashes to drug overdoses, generic crisis' that can be linked into the story well. However this will involve careful planning and set up, these scenes cannot just be randomly thrown in the mix otherwise the audience will be wondering where they have come from and what is happening.

I then created a mind-map of the most important features that I personally think make up a good trailer. These were quite broad editing styles/scenes but useful because for every trailer that I have throughly enjoyed they tick the majority of the boxes for this mind map. This helped me establish shots that I have to include in the trailer and allows me to craft the story of the trailer more to fit in these points. From reaction shots of characters to well edited montages with a highly recognisable sound track to engage the audience.