Reflection of AS

The link above is a copy of the ring trailer our group did in the summer. there are many strengths and weakenesses to the trailer.

A strength of this trailer is the sound syncing up with the video. The sound effects sync up with the images/videos on screen. This is good as it makes the trailer look a lot more of a high quality as it looks like the actors are saying what is being played on the sound, this means it can relate more to the original trailer as it looks like more of a copy of the original.

Another strength of this trailer was that the props and general mise en scene was very good. the clothing of characters was very wel linked to the actual trailer and similarities are clearly seen between the real trailer and our remake. This helped us recreate the trailer to its fullest potential as we looked to make as near to the actual trailer as possible.

However a weakness of our trailer was lighting. It was hard to get the correct lighting for certain scenes in the trailer meaning that some settings look a lot lighter than they should be. this had a knock on effect as the whole darkness and sinister atmosphere of some scenes was lost due to the setting being bright.

Furthermore another weakness of our trailer was that one shot was repeated more than once. The shot of the sky was used about three times. This took away some relation of our trailer to the actual ring trailer as we repeated a shot which isnt done in the real ring trailer. This meant that there were certain areas of the trailer the we couldnt fully copy.

Overall ive learnt a lot about using the camera in genral for differengt shot purposes. However mostly I learnt about using 'final cut pro' on the macs. I learnt about importing and exporting both clips and sounds, how to cut and/or trim clips, and inserting text on clips. I also learnt about formats of saving the trailer and how to embed into onto our blog for viewing.