Draft Movie Trailer and Analysis

This is our first draft of the movie trailer for our film 'The Close-Up' and there are several things that we as a group want to change in order to improve our final film trailer. 

Starting from the beginning of the clip, the first 4 seconds where the globe is turning and showing Coventry, is unusual to have in a romantic comedy trailer. Instead, they usually begin with a landscape shot of where the movie is set rather than a map version like we have produced. In our final trailer we intend to cut this short clip and put in a landscape, pan-shot of the school site and surrounding areas so that audiences know exactly where the character scenes are taking place without looking too animated (like the globe.)


Secondly, the music that we have used in the background does not flow with the scene entirely, it changes multiple times during the 30 second clip and we think that this too much as it seems unorganized and harsh in places. The music that is played when the character first walks in, does not fit with the movie genre, it seems better suited to a western film instead of a romantic comedy, and we will be changing the background music in our final trailer so that it fits better to our movie and relates more to the cast members.


We have used a multitude of sound effects throughout the 30-second trailer including children laughing, cheering and the sounds of doors opening and closing; Although they relate to what happens in the scene they are not ALL necessarily needed to make our trailer fit within its genre and sound effects like the ones we have used are rarely heard during a conventional romantic comedy.


The quality of the video is very poor and at times it is even hard to make out characters' faces; It is vital that this is improved for our final copy so that it looks like a professional film trailer. In order for our trailer to do this, we must improve the quality of our filming which is going to be done by hiring out camera software that is specifically used for video filming. This will help our audiences connect with the film and characters more as they will be able to see them clearly.


The whole trailer is a single long-shot of film, it does not vary on shots and it follows a single character. There is no problem with this if it was a convention of a romantic-comedy, but its not. Usually, film-trailers have a variety of different shots, angles and scenes within them and in order to make a trailer that falls within this convention we must incorporate all of these into our filming. 


As a group we also felt the trailer as a whole failed to represent what our film was about, although it showed the lead characters personality, from the trailer alone it would be difficult to deduce an outline of the plot and other characters within it. In order to improve on this, its important that our new trailer contains more on the films story and includes the movies main characters particularly the leading male.




This film was edited on iMovie for Apple Macs. We chose this movie making program as we found it easy to manipulate our clips with the organized structure of the software, the video clips that we had filmed were all in view and it was easy to chose which ones we wanted, and to cut the ones we didn't. iMovie also came with a variety of different default sound clips that we had used in our trailer, and it was useful to have the effects there that were easy to find. Although we found the iMovie software helpful, in order to make our final movie trailer as detailed and perfectly edited, we intend to use the Final Cut software for Apple Macs instead as it is a more advanced software than iMovie and we think it could benefit our trailer more by using its services than any other software.