Spot Trailer

Our group created a spot trailer to help us get a feel for what the full trailer would be like, it starts with a quick swish between shots of workers in an office, landing on a shot of Geoff sleeping. He is then woken up and goes to hit an alarm but hits his pencils instead, this is intended to create humour and make the audience aware that the film is a comedy. This gets the audience thinking actively about the genre and look at whether the film appeals to them. 

We used a variety of sound effects to make the trailer more snappy including little swoosh sound effects when quickly transitioning between shots at the beginning, this helps the transition look more fluid and make it feel more fast paced to get the trailer started. We also used non-diegetic sounds like ambient office sounds and ambient park noise in order to make the trailer seem more genuine and realistic. We added music as well after Geoff was introduced to give the trailer a rhythm and again, make it seem faster. I decided to keep this when making our full trailer but swapped out the music for something that was more stereotypical of a trailer and more energetic. I also decided that the freeze titles we used to introduce the characters were too simple and plain so we found a way to create more interesting, energetic and more aesthetically pleasing titles to introduce the characters. These were all changes that I decided to make after finishing and looking back on the spot trailer which influenced the creation of my full trailer and I have already started to implement these new ideas into my editing.