1. EVALUATION – Q1
In what way does your media
products use, develops or change
forms and conventions of real
media products?

3. Title of the Film
The timing of when the title came in was
picked for the right time, this is because
we didn’t want the title to appear at a
random time where it didn’t seem like it
fit, this can break apart the trailer and
make it look unprofessional. We brought
the title towards the final scene, where
the jokes that are made are coming to an
end, or it’s punch-line, for the trailer. This
helps to indicate the teaser trailers
comedic nature.

4. Title of the Film
Here is the title of the film ‘Wannabes’
which can be found in the trailer at 1:10.
The bright colours used are to bring
attention to the cheery vibe of the teaser
and film in general; this helps to define
the genre as a comedy.
This font is a 3D effect type of font, but
we found what would make it more
effective would be to have the
background colour within the font and to
create definition we made the outline
and 3D part of the font a blue that is a
few shades darker than the background,
still fitting in with the bright theme for
our comedy genre.

5. For the comedy film ‘Kick Ass’
they also have the title of the film
at the end of their trailer, as it
worked best. Most trailers will
have the title of the film at the
end as it makes it more
memorable for the audience.

6. Setting/Location
The film is mainly set in College,
however there will be shots
where it is outside of college
like in a park or outside a house
where a party is happening, but
the film is about two
‘unpopular’ boys in college so
the main location is their
college.
School and college are the
stereotypical places where you
will find ‘popular’ and
‘unpopular’ kids. By using this
stereotype, it helps to define
our genre as a comedy

7. Here is a shot of where it’s set
from our trailer compared to
a shot in ‘Kick Ass’ where it’s
set. Both of these happen to
be in school/college.

8. Costume & Props
The first main character Nigel (played
by Joe, on the left) wears a un-tucked
shirt with a wonky bow tie, this is to
give the impression of looking smart
but also trying to fit in with the other
students. Like what students at high
school do; un-tucking their shirts and
not wearing ties properly.
The other main character Johno
(played by George, on the right) also
wears an un-tucked shirt and a long
tie, but he wears a hoodie on top, this
is also commonly done in high school.
By doing these we can give the
impression off to the audience that
Johno and Nigel are slow with
catching up with the ‘cool kids’.

9. Here you can see
costumes and props
used in these two
trailers. In Kick Ass it is
a super hero costume
and his ‘weapon’, and
in Wannabes it’s their
uniform and
backpacks.

10. Camerawork & Editing
To help make our trailer look good
and well put together we needed to
make sure we used a fair amount of
different camerawork angles and
movements.
For example we did a tracking/follow
movement, for when Johno is
walking, by doing this and shots
from all different angles, it helps to
make the trailer (and the film) not
look like one long block to watch,
which would lose the audiences
attention. The change of angles (e.g.
over the shoulder, wide shot etc.),
used right, can keep the audience
interested without even knowing
these shots have really been done
and changed in editing, this is if the
continuity is done right.

11. In Kick Ass in this scene of
the trailer the camera
zooms in closer to his face
so he can say his ‘super
hero’ name.
In the Wannabes trailer we
are tracking his walk for the
audience to wonder where
he is walking to.

12. Title & Font
The fonts used in the trailer are
the same in all the shots that
contain text. This is to help link it
together and make it look like one
complete piece, and not badly
created/edited.
For all the titles other than the
title of the film itself, they looked
like the ones in this image as this
gives a 3D effect, with a contrast
of colours that are still helping to
link the the genre of comedy.

13. In the Kick Ass trailer they
also use the same fonts and
presentation style for the
titles in the trailer as it makes
it look more complete and fit
with the theme of the trailer.

14. Story/Set up of Opening
In the storyline of the film, at the
start, the boys are getting laughed
at for various reasons. So for our
trailer we wanted to show how
‘unpopular’ these boys are, by
showing just one of their many
‘uncool’ moments they have in the
film.
This is done so the audience can
immediately understand the
characteristics of Johno and Nigel,
and other characters in the film.

15. Here are shots of where
both of the trailers
start. In Kick Ass it looks
to be in a rough
area, this is thought
because of the graffiti
and the old looking cars.
In Wannabes they are
outside their
college, this is hard to
notice but you can think
of school/college
because of the
characters costume.

16. Genre & How the Opening suggests this
The genre of our film is a comedy, we
wanted to make sure that this gets
shown in the first scene of our teaser
trailer, because if it is not noticeable
by the audience, they will just become
confused while watching the trailer
and could choose not to watch it.
The first scene of the trailer is Johno
asking two ‘cool kids’ for a cigarette,
however he coughs badly at taking his
first puff at it, he does this cough in an
exaggerating way for the audience to
get that immediate vibe of a comedy.
The two cool kids laughed at him
which also helps the audience to
establish that it is meant to be funny
not taken seriously that he is choking.

17. In Kick Ass he gets beat
up right from acting all
strong and proud as if he
could have beaten the
bad guys up but he
couldn’t, it freezes at
this point and a voice
over takes over, these
help establish the
comedic genre.
This is similar with
Wannabes as the ‘cool
kids’ laugh at Johno for
choking on a cigarette.

18. How Characters are Introduced
The characters, Johno and Nigel,
are first introduced by them
doing something ‘uncool’ in front
of ‘cool kids’ at their college, once
they have shown how uncool they
are the shot changes to a close up
of their face.
The colour of these where edited
with a specific colour filter, and a
change in music, to bring close
attention to this by the audience,
so they then know the names of
these main characters.

19. Here is a comparison of
where we first see the
main character’s face
properly for the first time
in a real life trailer
example of the film ‘Kick
Ass’ with our trailer we
made.

20. Special Effects
There were not any extreme or
unique special effects used in this
teaser trailer as for our comedy,
since it was a stereotypical cool
vs. uncool kids at a college no
special effects where really
needed, except for the
entertaining/funny/colourful/
effects made that you would see
in many comedies like this teaser
trailer.

21. In Wannabes no unique
or high quality effects
where used like there
were in Kick Ass, as you
can see were a mans
head is getting shot
through his jaw. This is
done through special
effects.