CONSTRUCTION:THE RADIO TRAILER

 

SEE OUR RADIO TRAILER HERE.

The construction of our radio trailer relied mostly on editing and creating a engaging and enticing narration and structure. We wanted to instantly convey genre whilst simultaneously drawing an audience in we felt that the way to do this was to start the narration with, "Once upon a time" as this suggests the beginning of a fairytale. To fit with the conventions of a professional radio trailer we ensured we had all the institutional information presented at the end this included a selling point, "A modern day fairy tale", the name of the film "Checkout" and the release time, "July 2015".

To record the radio trailer we used iMovie, we took the audio clips from our actual film footage to act as the quotation clips in the radio trailer. We used the voiceover tool to record the voices of the two narrators, (Myself and Georgina), and then added the music over the entire collection of audio clips.

A difference between our radio trailer and the professional radio trailer, was the certificate rating as research proved that this was only used in larger blockbuster feature films and not in short films. Other than this exception out radio trailer fits to the conventions of a radio trailer.

The usual time limit for a radio trailer is 30 to 35 seconds we made sure we were in this time bracket as we didn't want to make the trailer too long, giving away to much or too short and not give enough information.

Over all the radio trailer is effective and successful in attracting and addressing audience, as it draws in an audience, provides them with enough dialogue to be intrigued in the film and finally gives them the information regarding watching the film and when.