Film Trailer or Music Video?

Working with Kimberley Dalton: daltonkimberley.blogspot.co.uk

Originally we had chose to create a film trailer as we worried about the record company saying no to us using their artists products and being under the threat of copyright.

However, we recently learnt that the letter doesn't have to be sent off but we need to write one as evidence of thinking about the record company. This meant that although we already had a few ideas for a film trailer, we changed our minds. We thought that because a music video is a different type of media, it would better show our variety in skills.

Although there are pros and cons of both projects which we had to consider as we may encounter them as problems whilst creating our work.

Film Trailer.

Pros:

• We are using the same skills as we developed though our AS coursework in the previous year. This would make the work easier for us as we know what to do and how to navigate final cut to what we would need to add to a film trailer. However, doing this we wouldn't be able to show our progress into the next year.
• We have a better idea of what is expected from us in our completed work. As we have already created the starting two minutes of a film and got our grades back from that we are able to use that knowledge of what we did last year to improve our work this year.

Cons.

• It would be difficult to gather enough people willing to help us complete this project, and even if were able to find enough people it would be near impossible to get everyone together at the times we needed them.
• We would have to create a storyline for the entire film which we had troubles with last year and then we would have to chose which parts are important or dramatic and should be used within the film trailer.
• The traditional film trailer doesn't follow the storyline in chronological order meaning that once we had filmed everything that we needed we would have to figure out how to jumble the storyline and clips correctly to look like a real film trailer.

Music Video.

Pros:

• There would be less people involved and filming clips in different locations and at different times would help as we can figure out when the people we need are free and work on a schedule.
• We are able to use an existing song which would help as we wouldn't have to spend the time creating a song or asking people to help us out with writing a song.
• A music video uses a narrative storyline which we would be able to analyse and portray how we feel that it should be shown.

Cons.

• Choosing a song that can be used with a narrative could be difficult although if we can't find it then we may be able to change the view into artistic or performance which would still qualify as sufficient work to gain the marks and grades.
• Lip syncing is the only other problem that we could think of as it is difficult to match the artists words without actually singing the song. As the artist would have projected their voice when recording we thought that it would be easier to sing the song when filming, which would also help when it comes to editing. We can also take out the unwanted audio once we have finished editing so it doesn't ruin the effect of the song.