Richard Ayoade (submarine)

^ Interview with Richard Ayoade on Submarine, his first debut directorial feature. 



Ayoade has directed videos for the Arctic Monkeys, Super Furry Animals, The Last Shadow Puppets, Vampire Weekend as well as videos for Kasabian.

My Trailer Pitch

Boy - he has a forbidden attraction towards his girlfriend. He does these bad things to her whenever he's with her that he finds so hard to control, whenever he tries to stop it, it physically hurts him.
Girl - Boys girlfriend, madly in love with him.

Boy cannot take the pain anymore therefore tells the girl he is leaving. They have a massive fight and the boy accidently pushes her into a wall/lampost and the girl runs away through a tunnel but disappears at the end of it. She then appears in a massive house, trapped and alone. The house used to be the boys old house therefoe bad things happen to her.
Genre- Thriller
Rating- 12a

The Discovery..

Reviewing Survey;

Judging from the 25 people who took my survey, 19 of them were aged 15-16 and 6 were 13-14.
 Majority enjoyed the trailer (64%)  and the rest was 'It was alright'
76% would consider watching the film, 4% said no and 20% said they weren't sure.
People who said the trailer was not clear and understandable said that more character dialogue and more shots from the film would have made it better.
72% thought the trailer was successful in promoting the film, 28% said it was alright.
Majority of 56% said that  background music is most important in a trailer. 52% said clips from the film, 48% said the storyline and 36% said characters.
Music at 60% was most engaging.

 Comments include: 'good background music and interesting storyline' 'it was really rubbish, you can tell what the storyline of the movie is gooing to be before you even watch it' 'it was goooood'

To improve my survey, I should have included more specific questions that may relate/help me with my personal trailer.

Survey - click here for survey

Please fill out my questionnaire which is based on the trailer 'Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging', the aim is to see the differences in opinions from different age ranges

Juno Trailer - Friday

Editing

• Quick straight cuts
• The titles to the actual trailer take within 4 seconds. Quick paced because it comes up bit by bit which gives the audience enough time to read it.
• Fadings to white
• Quick slides from one shot to another

Sound

• Music is fast paced and has a quick beat.
• Music is non-diagetic.
• Plays during dialogue but is lower so dialogue is still heard.
• No narration, only dialogue. 
• Dialogue tells the story

Titles and written language

•  Insitution is shown - Fox Searchlight Pictures
• first title introduces the character saying 'Juno's life just got complicated'
•  'And the bumps- we cant avoid' - this is a pun relating to the pregnancy 'bump'; the words also hit eachother to show this and the next shot is of Juno's bump.
• Title saying 'about the feelings we hide' the 'we hide' pops up from behind the other text to bring out the message of 'we hide'
• The last title is 'COMING SOON' and shows the website, and the other institution saying 'releasaed by Twentieth Centuy Fox'
• Font of titling is a yellow/orange background with a plain white, simple fonted text.
• There are no credits at the end.

Picture

•  You meet the main character Juno in the beginning when she first says 'Im pregnant'. We also meet her close/best friend who she calls to tell about her pregnacy. We meet her parents as she struggles and is scared to tell them; we meet her boyfriend as he is effectively introduced as the dad says 'whose the father' and it shows quick cuts and shots of her boyfriend.
• First scenes are in a bedroom between 2 friends. The background shows a typical girls bedroom with posters, pictures, a phone and designs.
• Humour such as 'how did you even generate enough P for 3 pregnacy tests?' 'Im guessing it looks like a sea monkey right no, it should look a little cuter, right?' 'Youre like the coolest person I've ever met and like you dont even have to try' 'I try really hard actually..'
•  There are many different settings to relate to the teenage audience such as the bedroom, school, park and kitchen.
• High key lighting 9/10 of the time.

Trailers..

Ferris Beullers Day Off

• Titles
• Talks to camera
• Repeats the main characters name
• Music
• Shows film title at the end
• Quick cuts
• Close-ups to show expressions
• Humour to grab audience attention
• Introduces characters through titles
• Promotes his personality through others
• Institution- 20th Century Fox

 The Breakfast Club

• Deep voice narration
• Quick cuts
• Humour
• No rolling credits, just one frame.
• Jolly music

Pans Labrynth

• Horror
• Creepy music
• Deep voice over narrartion
• Introduces main character
• No dialogue - because it is a spanish film
• Reviews from others to promote
• Qucik cuts at the end to conclude
• Title is shown at the end 
• Shows mostly facial expressions to link to film genre

Juno

• About being pregnant
• 'the bumbs we cant avoid' - pun
• Audience= teens
• No narration, plenty of dialogue
• Titles
• Music

Persepolis

• Animated film
• Black and White
• Linked to religion
• reviews to promote film
• humor used to attract audience
• Voice over - deep narration

Angus Thongs & Perfect Snogging

• English film
• Shows title 3 times
• Different settings throughout the trailer (beach, bedroom, school, clubs etc.)
• Teenage audience
• Clearly shows the diseqillibrium

Son of Ranbow

• Based on making an action adventure movie
• Relationships
• Disequillbrium- religion
• Animated titles
• No Narration only dialogue