Movie Trailer analysis

Today we looked at a lot of movie trailers from different genres of film to get an idea of what we could do for our creative outcome trailer piece.
While watching the trailers, we compiled a list of elements that were found in most of them.

They were:

• Voice over (by characters in the films and/or narrator)
• Funny scenes/humor and Action scenes/stunts
• Soundtrack: Sometimes well known songs or simple music.
• Naming of prominent actors
• Showed key scenes
• Suggested at a romance
• Showed production company and their logo(s)
• Named release date (either films in cinemas or DVD release date) or said "coming soon"
• If not out yet, often refers to season of release (eg. "this season")
• Slogans
• Websites
• Copyright information
• Skipping from scene to scene, giving only a little taste of each one.
• If it's in 3D, it's mentioned.
• Title graphics
• If based on books/other movie/ tv series ect, mentioned.
• Other movies by producers, actors, directors or writers.
• Reviews quoted.
• Musicals mention the songs performed.
• Screen ends to black (with sometimes a final scene after that)
• If well known actors, they're mentioned (and any of their credits, eg. academy award winner)
• If they movie has won/been nominated for awards.
• OLD MOVIES: Often repeat themselves and give a lot more information about the plot and production.

We also learnt about the green or red bar shown at the start of a lot of trailers, and how if its green it's approved for general audiences and if it's red, it isn't.

Challenges analysis sheet

As part of our project, we will be watching a LOT of movies (well, like 8) and to go with them we gave created a sheet for the movie watcher to fill in about the film and challenges within it.
As we watch films, we hope to upload our filled in forms on here so we all have access to them.
The sheet is below if you're interested:

Movie Challenge analysis

Person filling in this form ___________________

Name of movie ___________________   Genre­__________

Length __________    Rating ___/10

Challenges in the movie (including what kind of challenges, who they affected and as much detail as possible)
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________

Were these challenges resolved? (If so, how? If not, why not? How did resolving (or not) the challenges affect the characters?)
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In your opinion, how effectively were the challenges represented in the film?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Presentation

We worked on refining our presentations and our final outcomes today. We began researching specific movie trailers so that we could research how we are going to make our trailer for our creative outcome. We found one movie trailer for an old film called "The African Queen" but we weren't able to find any others due to the fact that the school security system prevented us from using movie playing formats. This was were we managed to find the trailer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_(film)

We still need to watch more trailers at home or a computer that supports the correct format. We also need to watch more of the films that we are planning to watch so that we can begin work on our final outcomes and begin to design our movie trailer.

Trailer courtesy of  Youtube.

1st Entry

This is our first blog entry in this blog which is part of our outcome for our term assignments on Challenge.
Here we will post about how our research and creation of our assignment is going.
So far we have decided to do our project on The Challenges faced in movies.
Quick background:
As part of this assignment we have to create four outcomes:
A Blog Which you are reading now
A Creative outcome we aren't sure what we're doing yet but we're thinking of making our own challenge themed movie trailer
A presentation still in discussion but we think it'll involve movie clips.
A Report Maybe a movie review or a report on what we ahve done.

That's all except below is a photo to show we can put them in blog entries (activity requirement)