Film Trailer - Stages of Development

The first stage of editing the film trailer was to find suitable clips of current news and make a montage for the very beginning. We firstly created a minute long sample of clips and put a filter and music on them to make it fit the theme of our film [1], we knew that the introduction to the trailer couldn't be this long but it allowed us to have options for later debate. We then created the first part of the trailer, it was not a perfect version but was a good start to the project in our eyes [2]. However, feed back from peers and family taught us that the plot was not clear enough and that the trailer needed work through reconstructing the order of scenes. The film trailer construction has been changed since the first edits and storyboard. I feel that making a plot clear through a trailer is a difficult task as naturally the ones making it know the plot inside out, so it is easy to forget how the story will be seen by a viewer who has no pre-knowledge of the films plot. As a group, we looked back at our storyboard and clips that we have recorded and considered how we could rearrange the events in the trailer using the same clips and basis. We did this by looking at the storyboard and rearranging the steps as shown below as well as stripping back on unneeded scenes as we were starting to get a sense of how long each part should be to keep the audience engaged, [3]. Although the changes we made were time consuming it meant that our finished trailer will make more sense and it is paramount that the trailer creates mystery but not confusion to audiences. The rearranged storyboard and first edits are attached below.

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