Final trailer

This is my finished trailer for my film 'Lexus'. It's extremely short, only forty seconds long in all, and I always intended it to be a teaser trailer. There's no story line, or plot give away, it's always left up to the viewer to decide what's going on. My media teacher actually asked questions like "who's that girl?" and "what's that part for?" and that's exactly how I meant it to be. I wanted to keep people guessing. I also really like how well the music fits the whole feel of it. It's just the intro to one of my favourite songs, and the creepy carnival music helped to come up with the taglines "life is a circus" etc. The song is 'Dark Carnival Of The Immaculate' by I Am Ghost, and I heartily thank them all the way to California for letting me use their music! It makes my trailer what it is.

Music Permission.

I went through alot of bands on Myspace before I came up with a song I liked. Obviously, some of them were completely out of reach, too big or famous to contact, but I eventually found an American band called 'I Am Ghost' who basically told me I could use any song of theirs I wanted, so long as I sent the finished product to them so they could check it out. I print-screened their permission from Myspace.

The song is 'Dark Carnival Of The Immaculate'. I'm only using the intro, as it's not actually part of a song, per se, it's more like creepy, circus, carnival themed music, with haunting violins and stall vendors sneering and things. It fits really well with my trailer, and I'm so so glad the band let me use their song...!

Retrospective(!) magazine and poster research

Poster Research...

The first thing I considered doing was to look at films I'd seen and loved. By doing that, I can draw more answers from the poster if I already have a set opinion on what the film is, and does, and how much I liked or disliked it.

The first poster I chose to look at is 'Trainspotting', and I took alot of influence from it for my poster. It was one of my favourite landscape posters which then made me love the concept for my own even more. I also liked the idea of the orange block running down the bottom with all the important stuff in it, which didn't take away from the original pictures. With a poster, I think it should be the image that catches your eye, and that's exactly the effect the Trainspotting poster had, which is why I borrowed the idea for myself. I don't think posters should be about the director or even focus on the actors as much, it should be a snapshot of what the movie is about. The Trainspotting posters do exactly that, give you an idea of what the film entails, and that's the effect I wanted for myself. I liked the stark orange in comparison to the black and white, and in my poster I tried to get the face really pale and pasty, in comparison do the deep maroon colour of the block in mine. It's obviously not as sharp as the Trainspotting one, but I think it has a similar effect.