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Title: Persuasive Narrative Reading and Making Trailers


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Persuasive NarrativeReading and Making
Trailers
  • Matt Poyton
  • Primary Education Officer
  • Film Education

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Today
  • Consider how narrative is established in a film
    trailer and explore effective editing techniques.
    Focus on horror/thriller genre.
  • Film key shots for a trailer based on a given
    pitch, synopsis and storyboard
  • Edit your trailer with text, music and sound
    effects
  • Intro, watch, discuss etc. - 30 mins
  • Filming - 30 mins
  • Editing - up to 1 hour

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Not today(but in class)
  • Watch and discuss lots of different trailers.
    You can use recent Film Ed CD-ROMs
  • Choose genre and come up with film pitch,
    character, synopsis etc.
  • Plan and storyboard your trailer
  • Use microphones to add an audio voiceover as well
    as text.

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Trailers and the Primary Framework for Literacy
  • Year 4 Non-fiction - Unit 4
  • Persuasive Texts
  • Watch a trailer for a popular children's film.
    Discuss the purpose
  • of the text and the emotions it is intended to
    provoke in readers.
  • Discuss how the soundtrack, sound effects,
    voice-over and
  • moving images were used to persuade children to
    go and see the
  • film...
  • Plan a trailer to promote a film using key
    moments from the film.
  • Prepare a written voiceover script to persuade a
    reader to see a
  • film. Demonstrate how to combine words, music
    and images to
  • convince the reader.
  • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframework/literac
    y/planning/Year4/Nonfiction/unit4

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Trailers and the Primary Framework for Literacy
  • Year 5 Narrative - Unit 5
  • Film Narrative
  • Use key points in a film to discuss features and
    themes. Explore
  • Approaches made by the film maker to create
    moods, pace and
  • viewpoint. Develop children's film language by
    identifying how colour,
  • light, sound and camera angles have been used to
    tell the narrative...
  • Children work as part of a group to use drama
    strategies to explore characters in
  • depth.
  • Develop a story board for a narrative by
    capturing and importing key
  • images into a presentation program. Children
    write their own version of
  • a narrative, organising writing into paragraphs,
    and create a multimodal
  • presentation of this version including images,
    voice-over, soundtrack and
  • written text.
  • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframework/literac
    y/planning/Year5/Narrativestories/unit5/

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Trailers and the Primary Framework for Literacy
  • Year 6 Narrative - Unit 1
  • Fiction genres
  • Identify features typical of a genre and note
    narrative structure.
  • Make comparisons and identify typical features of
    genres.
  • Select a genre and use drama activities to
    explore typical
  • characters, setting, events.
  • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframework/literac
    y/planning/Year6/Narrativestories/unit1/

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Trailers and the Primary Framework for Literacy
  • Speaking and Listening
  • Drama
  • SEAL - social skills, teamwork
  • Cross-curriculular links
  • (e.g. Design Technology for creating costumes,
    props etc.)
  • ICT
  • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframework/literac
    y/ictapplications/

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Narrative Structure
  • Generic structure
  • Opening
  • Build Up
  • Problem
  • Events
  • Resolution
  • End
  • Narrative structure of trailers
  • Opening
  • Build Up
  • Problem
  • Events
  • Resolution
  • End

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Opening Establishes setting and introduces
character

10
Build Up Relationships established. Development
of characters and their world
11
Problem A dilemma or series of complications.
Characters are faced with an obstacle to
overcome. Often more than one.
12
Events A series of events/action as characters
try to overcome obstacle, solve problem etc.
Further complication may arise in the process.
13
Watching Trailers
  • Prince Caspian
  • Take note of the following
  • Text on screen/voiceover
  • Transitions between shots
  • Length of shots at beginning and end
  • Use of music and sound (and quiet)
  • www.thetrailermash.com - Sleepless In Seattle

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Trailer Conventions - Editing
  • Thrillers, horror, action and fantasy
  • Longer shots to establish character, setting and
    the problem
  • Fade in and out to black/white, accompanied by
    SFX
  • Shorter shots (and quick cuts) of some of the
    most exciting moments from the film. Not
    necessarily in chronological order.
  • Sudden moments of quiet and silence as important
    as music and SFX

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Trailer Conventions - Text On Screen and
Voiceover
  • This Season
  • From the people who brought you(implies genre)
  • Words that suggest key themes e.g.
  • experience a new kind of fear
  • they will find hope where they least expect it
  • Grand summary of plot, e.g.
  • In a world
  • One mans destiny
  • will face their biggest challenge
  • will change their lives, forever!
  • Based on the unbelievable true story
  • Based on the bestselling book
  • Star Names (actors/director)
  • Title (often said at the same time so it sticks
    in viewers minds)
  • Quick flash of credits and official website

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  • Woman Found Living In Closet
  • Justin McCurry in Tokyo. The Guardian, Saturday
    May 31, 2008
  • It's fair to say that the people of Kasuya, a
    sleepy town in western Japan, had never given
    much thought to
  • Japan's homeless problem. But that all changed
    this week when one of its residents noticed that
    food had
  • been mysteriously disappearing from his fridge.
  • Convinced that he was the victim of frequent
    burglaries, the 57-year-old resident installed
    security cameras
  • that transmitted images from the inside of his
    house directly to his mobile phone. The culprit
    was not, as it
  • turned out, a highly skilled and hungry burglar,
    but a middle-aged, homeless woman who had been
    living on
  • the top shelf of his closet for several months.
  • Police arrested the 58-year-old, identified as
    Tatsuko Horikawa, on suspicion of trespassing
    after she was
  • captured on film taking advantage of the owner's
    absence to move from her tiny dwelling to the
    fridge in search
  • of food. Police had arrived expecting to
    apprehend a burglar but found the front door
    securely locked and the
  • windows closed.
  • "We searched the house checking everywhere
    someone could possibly hide," a local police
    spokesman told
  • the Associated Press, adding that the woman may
    have used the residence and other houses in the
    areas as

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Your Trailer
  • Synopsis
  • ___ is a reserved man leading a solitary
    existence. Each day is
  • the same and he avoids communication with others.
  • However, ___s routine is about to be shaken up
    when he starts
  • to notice strange occurrences within his flat.
    Food disappears
  • from his fridge, his phone bills include calls he
    has never made,
  • and he begins to feel as though he is not alone.
    Then he
  • makes a shocking discovery. ___'s life is about
    to change
  • forever
  • (Name and gender of main character can change)

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Task
  • Sequence the story board. There is no correct
    answer.
  • Head off to your accommodation and film each
    shot.
  • - Establishing shots no longer than 5 seconds
    from Action! to Cut!.
  • - Other shots 1-3 seconds
  • 3. Get back here in 30 mins and import
    footage into iMovie
  • Sequence and trim shots
  • Write and add voiceover text. Give your film a
    title.
  • Add transitions (fade in and out, quick cuts
    etc.)
  • Add music and sound effects
  • Tweak editing and keep trailer under 2 mins
  • Export trailer (click on File) as a QuickTime
    file at CD-ROM quality.

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Taking this back to the classroom
  • Watch and discuss lots of different trailers.
    You can use recent Film Ed CD-ROMs
  • Pupils choose genre and come up with film pitch,
    character, synopsis etc.
  • Plan and draw storyboards. Study shot types,
    camera movement and angles and their effect
  • Use microphones to add a audio voiceover as well
    as text
  • Write a full short story to accompany trailer
  • Alternatively, adapt a novel studied into a film
    pitch and trailer.
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