A Trailer Shot-By-Shot - Jess

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows teaser trailer shot list

http://youtu.be/Qi7SVlKWFn0

·         Panning shot of 3 walking along a field/mountain

·         Mid shot of back of Voldemort

·         Long shot of Harry at front door. Hedwig flying toward camera

·         Tracking shot of 3 walking down corridor

·         Fade to Black

·         Close up of Voldemort turning around

·         Close up of Harry’s reaction

·         Mid/Low angle shot of Voldemort

·         Mid shot of train

·         Close up of old man

·         Mid shot of Hermione with Harry and Ron out of focus in background

·         Mid shot of Harry kissing Ginny

·         Fade to Black

·         Long shot of Harry at Dobby’s grave

·         Mid shot of Ron and Hermione on beach

·         Close up of Harry

·         Fade to Black

·         Panning shot of Harry

·         Fade to Black

·         Close up of Harry in pain

·         Mid shot of Harry in action in café

·         Reverse mid shot of Voldemort from behind Harry’s shoulder

·         Tracking shot of 3 walking in a crowd

·         Mid shot of Harry in tent

·         Reverse of Ron shouting

·         Reverse of Harry’s reaction/ jumping on Ron out of anger

·         Tracking shot of Harry in the woods

·         Mid shot of dragon bursting through a wall

·         Establishing shot of Hogwarts

·         Panning shot of all running though woods

·         Tracking close up of Harry running through the woods

·         Tracking close up of Ron running through the woods

·         Panning of all running through the woods

·         Tracking close up of Hermione running through the woods

·         Tracking close up of Ron running through the woods

·         Fade to Black

·         Close up of Harry

·         Harry Potter Titles/Logo

Overall trailer lasted 0:55 seconds.

The aim of this task was to see what goes into constructing a trailer. This took me a long time and made me aware of how many shots there are in a trailer. Other things this task made me notice are:

- lots of variety of shot distance - this varies through the piece, moving us in and out of connection with the characters. Closer shots are generally for emotion / relationships and longer shots for action

- relatively few characters shown despite the number there are in the film - the audience will already know the characters we see and new ones are not really introduced, probably because the trailer is so short.

- fade to balck transitions are used to dividde the trailer into distinct sections, giving it an overall structure