Exploring Narrative

Radio Trailer

Using my knowledge from studying radio trailers, I have had a quick attempt at producing my own on Garageband to promote an upcoming fictional film for release. I started by producing the basic music score which I then built on top of with dialogue. I was careful to make sure that the tone of the music was appropriate to the genre of the film - a coming-of-age story set in an American high school, meaning the tone of the music had a cheery, pop-music sound to appeal to a teenage audience. I followed all of the appropriate conventions such as the use of lines of dialogue taken directly from the film in order to give an indication of the narrative. I also used a voice over as narrator as most radio trailers do which pulled the trailer along and gave it structure, revealing the title of the film as well as its release date. The radio trailer includes quotes from reviews by reliable sources such as Empire magazine which provide the film with a positive reputation hopefully enticing audiences to the cinema.   

 

Practice Trailer Music

Here is my very first attempt at using Garageband to produce an original piece of music using the loops provided. The programme was completely alien to me at first though after a while it soon started to become natural as I started to learn my way around the icons, learning what did what. I'm quite proud of this short piece of music that I have produced which I feel has a true urban street dance feel to it meaning it would appeal to young teen audience. It would be appropriate for use on a radio trailer promoting a film of a teen comedy genre such as the upcoming '21 and over' or perhaps films of a dance/hip-hop genre such as the popular 'Step It Up' or 'Streetdance' franchises.