Since I had some trouble storyboarding my trailer, I'm thinking of first doing a shot list for some of the scenes. I'm unsure of the actual order of the scenes and how I should flow, but perhaps I should decide what scenes should be filmed at least.
Scenes I could use:
Potentially some shots showing a happy couple (whether the couple is Senara with the male lead or a random couple she takes inspiration from isn't decided at the moment) There'll be straight cuts to black throughout the different shots shown of this couple.
Cut to black immediately with non-diegetic 'dunnn' sound. Then dialogue is heard of Senara as if she's in her world, being ordered about/saying what her next job is to do.
"Seduce a member of authority? Easy..." or something even more vague linking to the scene we saw before. Maybe she asks a question to the audience like Kaa in the Jungle Book Trailer!
"Is anyone feeling the way I do right now...?"
Oh! Here's an interesting selection of shots/scenes:
It starts off with looking at a pretty stool in which you could see a beautiful little pale room in the shot too. There's a close up of Senara's leg as she pulls on some stockings/tights. Maybe this cross-cuts with some other action including Stephen's character; maybe he's walking down the street or at night time sitting at a curb at a road or something (though it'd be difficult to be able to film at night, personally) or he's at a shop, buying something; something a casual guy would do.
Then cross-cuts to some make-up powder and a powder puff, and a close up of Senara either applying it, or maybe it's lipstick instead; a deadly colour, like a cherry red or mulberry. There'll be dialogue with Senara asking questions to herself/audience, like the idea above.
During this cross cutting, maybe it shows the happy couple of Senara and Stephen's character in a park, acting cute. and the cross cutting gets faster and faster and more 'emotional' and more focussed on Senara, for example, her crying in a dark room, or a close up of her fangs with blood in her mouth (fake blood obviously) and then a moment of just one shot of her crying silently (because she's killed her lover).
From here it shows the 7 Deadly Sins routine, and someone she knows asks if she's alright (incorporating some of the quotes from this post)
In the end, it's the scene when Stephen's character says 'Please come down. I won't hurt you...'
and Senara could say 'And then I'd hurt you...'
But is that a bit too much like the Maleficent trailer?
Or that scene could be in the 'middle-end' and after that is a series of more sparse dialogue, and whenever she does speak, it's a black out until maybe the quote above OR
"Just do what feels natural"
"[giggles] Oh, you don't want me to do that..."
I think I've got something more for the trailer ideas now. I just hope it'l work. I need to work on the pace though; I think it's usually more effective if the speed picks up near the end of the trailer, and then it slows down again at the last moment.
I''ll do some audience research on this idea as well, but I'm so glad it seems like I'm getting somewhere!
Note: I asked for a opinion from Mr Stevens of how he'd expect the pace of the trailer to be, and he said with such a complex narrative, the pace wouldn't be as fast as an action or a thriller since it's not the action we're focusing on.
That's extremely helpful, so that probably means I could get away with the use of less 'jumpy' scenes because it's more of the story-telling rather than the moments of action and violence.
Oh! Here's an interesting selection of shots/scenes:
It starts off with looking at a pretty stool in which you could see a beautiful little pale room in the shot too. There's a close up of Senara's leg as she pulls on some stockings/tights. Maybe this cross-cuts with some other action including Stephen's character; maybe he's walking down the street or at night time sitting at a curb at a road or something (though it'd be difficult to be able to film at night, personally) or he's at a shop, buying something; something a casual guy would do.
Then cross-cuts to some make-up powder and a powder puff, and a close up of Senara either applying it, or maybe it's lipstick instead; a deadly colour, like a cherry red or mulberry. There'll be dialogue with Senara asking questions to herself/audience, like the idea above.
During this cross cutting, maybe it shows the happy couple of Senara and Stephen's character in a park, acting cute. and the cross cutting gets faster and faster and more 'emotional' and more focussed on Senara, for example, her crying in a dark room, or a close up of her fangs with blood in her mouth (fake blood obviously) and then a moment of just one shot of her crying silently (because she's killed her lover).
From here it shows the 7 Deadly Sins routine, and someone she knows asks if she's alright (incorporating some of the quotes from this post)
In the end, it's the scene when Stephen's character says 'Please come down. I won't hurt you...'
and Senara could say 'And then I'd hurt you...'
But is that a bit too much like the Maleficent trailer?
Or that scene could be in the 'middle-end' and after that is a series of more sparse dialogue, and whenever she does speak, it's a black out until maybe the quote above OR
"Just do what feels natural"
"[giggles] Oh, you don't want me to do that..."
I think I've got something more for the trailer ideas now. I just hope it'l work. I need to work on the pace though; I think it's usually more effective if the speed picks up near the end of the trailer, and then it slows down again at the last moment.
I''ll do some audience research on this idea as well, but I'm so glad it seems like I'm getting somewhere!
Note: I asked for a opinion from Mr Stevens of how he'd expect the pace of the trailer to be, and he said with such a complex narrative, the pace wouldn't be as fast as an action or a thriller since it's not the action we're focusing on.
That's extremely helpful, so that probably means I could get away with the use of less 'jumpy' scenes because it's more of the story-telling rather than the moments of action and violence.
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