Practice Trailer _ The Simpsons

This is my practice trailer, I was given a set of clips from the simpsons movie and set the task to create a movie trailer with them. I mixed the clips with the track "mafia- hucci" it added a tense atmosphere to the trailer and changed the meaning of the trailer like i was trying to do.

Technical Elements of Storyboards

Shot - A shot tells the reader the focal point within a scene, also when the shot type changes and the focal point changes too.

Storyboard - A storyboard is a shot by shot visual representation and these specific shots can be changed to show the relationship between characters, show emotion and show action. E.g. Two shot, Close up, ect.

The location of where the shots are going to be taken needs to be included. 

You need to display how many characters you want in the shot, which characters you want in the shots, props or vehicles need to be placed in the shot too, or annotated that they should be used, the type of shot and angle shot should also be stated for each section.

Drawings of the action in the cut need to be on the storyboard, arrows and lines are used to show movement and action in the scene. You can also put the speed of the movement with an annotation. For example a person running around a car from one side to the other, you will need draw an arrow to show the movement. For instance you could label the location on the side of the shot.

Lighting needs to be considered in the shot, the type of lighting, e.g. high key, low key. Day and night also needs to be labeled on the shot.

Questionnaire results

these are the results for my questionnaire on my poster, i will use them to tweak what my poster looks like.

Feedback Sheet. Student Work

Name of product	What I thought were the strengths	What I thought were the weaknesses
Sinister Front Cover Horror	the main image used is really good, it fits in well with the genre of the film. Masthead font used fits the genre really well, its also contrasts well with the main image.	the shade of red isnt constant, making it look unprofessional by not sticking to the colour pallet. some text blends well with the main image making hard to read, and the font is too small to read in places.
Infensus Poster Horror	The top image is really good, it fits the genre and the story line of the film, the bottom image sets the scene. The main title of the film is really good, it has a good effect on it which fits in with the film very well.	the landscapes looks over exposed and too bright, which isn't common for a horror.
Under Rogue Poster	font and colour used for the title is really good, it fits in with the genre really well.	Doesn't have enough hints to say that it is a romance genre film. Image used doesn't seem right compositionally and has too much empty space.

Script First Draft Feedback

For my first draft of my script I wrote out the voice over of the trailer.

My feedback was to:
     Put time brackets on how long each segment is going to be.
     Make the text centre aligned in the format of a script.
     Add locations.

Technical elements of script

Fade in - The first item should be a transition, fade in is most commonly used. This would be shown on the left of the page. This is the starting point for any script starts with an edit into the beginning of the scene. Eg.
FADE IN
Scene Heading - This would be a basic description of the location and time, so the scene can be set. Writing for this would be all in capitals. A scene heading can also be referred to as a slugline. E.g.
INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE - NIGHT

Character first appearance - This would be a description of the character, name, where they work/live/are, what they do for a living, age and this would all be in capitals. Eg. MARK, STUDENT, 17, NORTH EAST

Character - A characters name is placed above any dialogue they will be saying and their name will be in capitals. Characters with smaller rolls (people you will only see once) will still be listed but they won't have their birth name, a description of the person will be used instead for example 'BYSTANDER' or 'SHOP ASSISTANT'. Eg.
MARK

Action - The narrative description of the events of the scene, written in present tense. Eg.
On the streets of Newcastle, a car races round the streets, escaping from the police.

Transition - A film editing instruction to show a scene change or development, it will usually only be used in shooting scripts. Eg.
FADE TO

Dialogue - This is the words the character's will be saying through speech. Dialogue format is also used when characters are speaking off screen or a voice over. Eg. Whats up?.

EXT - Exterior
INT - Interior

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