Spiderman 4 Trailer

A thirty second opening sequence or trailer for Spiderman 4 film.

I thought this project would be difficult to do. The Spiderman franchise are mega budgeted movies and i had to create an open title sequence with no experience in filming.

At first I struggled with just borrowing a video recorder from college. How was i going to produce any film if i could not get the equipment. I was without video equipment for 4 weeks, what a great college.

To be given a project like this and not offer any advice, guidance or classes on video making. I dont know what results the tutors are expecting. I would have appreciated a little advice on how I could start or how to use a camera correctly and all its functions, for example, how to stop a shadow from casting on a scene. I felt the biggest problem here was a lack of teaching, thus it made it hard to do the work.

Secondly, I felt that without acknowledging these problems I had and the extra amount of effort I had to do on this project it is unfair to recieved nothing but negative feedback on my final piece.

However, I disagree with the tutors comments saying it had tacky use of typography. I thought it was very successful. Lots of time and effort was spent on researchand the final film.

My idea was to film my self drawing the characters in the Spiderman movies and i would narrate it in the same fashion as the comic books. I began researching the Spiderman movies and comic books looking at different illustrators well known with the Spiderman character. I felt this was a very good idea because of the limited resources I had.

I started with a storyboard to help visualise the correct poses for the film. As I began filming myself drawing each character from scratch it became an absolute ball ache as I tried to stay out of the camera frame while trying to produce high quality drawings at strange angles. After long hard working hours and late nights I finally produced over 10 hours of footage.

Editing was the next challenge, I had ten hours of footage that had to be condensed in to a minute. The final cut had to be engaging and fast paced as it could have easily been very dull.

By adding certain filters to give that comic book feel. The typefaces had to have fast movement added more energy to the trailer. I used the Batman television series for reference to show how type would emphasize on action.

A good amount of effort has gone in to this project I hope all will enjoy it. All Clips are accessible in the video bar in the top right hand corner.