Planning for production - Film's Cool session 3 (Music Production)

For this weeks session of Film's Cool we not only had the pleasure of meeting musician Awate who previewed some of his music to use that we possibly be able to use in our trailer, we also had a Q & A session as part of film's club with Corinne Ladeinde who is a animator.

Corinne Ladeinde Q & A by stoliros

As part of our Q & A session with Corinne Ladeine we were shown a short movie of a animation she had recently created and had previously previewed in the London Film Festival. However, what I found most intriguing about this Q & A session was her comments on the importance of having a narrative structure to your movie/ trailer. She stressed that this was one of the, if not the most important part, of making any successful movie and so a good narrative structure is essential. This made me think back to the work we previously done on Todorov's theory of narrative, and the ways in which we should look to include his theory and use it as a basis for the narrative structure of our movie in order to enhance the story and make it even better.

The second part of Film's Cool was a seperate session with musician Awate who allowed us to listen and even have the choice of using some of his music in our trailers. Listening to his music I realized how essential music is in a trailer to set a certain tone, something I researched but never fully understood until now in my research on multimodal texts, and also to reflect the themes of your movie. For example our movie is based around school life and targeted at a young audience, so therefore the use of Awate's urban music would fit in very well with the themes of our movie.