Trailer | Workshop

When learning about Trailers we were given the short film 'Soft' and we were given the task to turn it into a trailer. This trailer was to sell the movie and make it look attractive and eye-catching to get the attention of an audience. This is the trailer that myself and Lindsay created:

When creating the trailer we didn't want to give away too much of the story so we decided to watch the short film and overwrite little sections of the film onto the sequence on Adobe Premiere Pro. We did this so once we had all of the clips we wanted to use in the timeline, we could place them in the order we wanted. We wanted to create some tension towards the end of the trailer, so we decided to quicken the pace of the cuts towards the end of the trailer to build it up and make it more interesting. 

We really liked the clips in the film that have been filmed by the dangerous gang, so we made sure to involve as many of them in the trailer as possible. One of the parts of the trailer that I like is where the neighbour says to the main character "lovely day" and then the following clip is the leader of the gang punching a young boy. This creates a contrast in the trailer and makes it more interesting for the audience to view. This will attract the audience and make them intrigued which will convince them to watch the film.

We inserted a few seconds of the most dramatic scenes in the film and grouped them together to create tension and build the storyline to make the audience want to see more. The music we used within the trailer is quite dramatic and creates tension. We chose this instrumental background to help add to the tension and build up the trailer in a dramatic way. I think the music will catch the audiences attention and they'll want to watch the full short film after watching the trailer.

Overall, I enjoyed this task, but I also found it quite difficult. I found it difficult because it was challenging to find the most effective clips and to put them in the correct order to make it interesting without giving away too much of the story.