Once we had got all of our footage and nearly finished editing we decided to look at more film trailers which the story lines have influenced us. We only saw this trailer after and realised how similar the techniques we have used are. Both the trailers have a short clip of an image being turned into a photograph, the only difference is that on the Descent 2 trailer the image is in black and white and ours is covered with sepia tone.
The storyline for the Descent 2 is similar to ours and is shown through a variety of camera shots and angles. At the beginning there are a few close ups of the friends faces concentrating on the sporting activity and enjoying themselves. As the trailer progresses the atmosphere changes and so do the feelings of the characters. The facial expressions change to portray fear from being inside the mine. This is a similar sequence in both trailers.
The music in this trailer progresses with more bass and louder sounds. The same things happens in our trailer. this is a media convention for thriller, horror and drama trailers. The editing and music paces speeds up towards the end of the trailer creating suspense. the reason for this is that the trailer finishes on a 'cliff hanger' to draw you in to want to watch the full film.
Overall I think that this trailer succeeds to capture attention as a psychological drama. The variety of editing techniques are definitely inspiring to our trailer and we will be trying to use some similar techniques. I think that our group will have to look into adding text into our trailer to cut in between different establishing shots at the beginning. The fades between these are really effective when the daunting music is playing and when they are in time. After realising how similar this trailer and ours i will definitely be encouraged to use some techniques from this trailer.
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