Limbo Evaluation

Limbo Evaluation

"Limbo"

Film Poster

Behold!

This was taken on a road towards Upper Heyford. I decided that if I was to use a road I could give the feel of there is a long almost never ending journey in trying to escape out of Limbo. The feet belong to Corban who joined me in location scouting. He was wearing shorts so everythings ok! I decided he should go bare foot to make him look out of place. If he was in shoes then the audience would just think it was a lone traveller but I needed that feel of being out of place. It also gives a feel of isolation and more importantly it makes him look lost...

"Limbo"

A brief overview of the finished product before I upload the video to show you.

The trailer is around 1:40 mins long and shows the scene with Corban waking up in the car. There are cuts at certain points to add text and give the audience a vague idea of what this trailer is about. This is a general convention of trailers which I decided to add. I'm challenging the conventions a little bit by having a lot of the first scene of the potential film showing with other cuts and parts of the film around it. The extra clips are to give an idea of what will follow but we're following a short opening to almost pull the audience in and push them back out at the end, making them want to watch the final product.

Locations are the Upper Heyford abandoned supermarket car park and the centre of Woodstock

Corban Wishart acts as the lonely character stuck in Limbo

The track used is "Thistle and Weeds" by Mumford and Sons

The editing software used was Final Cut Express used on the Mac books

Music/Soundtrack

There has been one track I've thought would fit the mood so well was the track Thistle and Weeds by Mumford and Sons.

(All rights go to them, I use the song for a non-profit making A2 trailer, I do not own the song)

The track is about 6 minutes long and has a lot of variety I think. It has a mysterious feel to it due to its lone guitar and eerie melody and lyrics. The piece gradually builds a crescendo with slow drums and a low almost honky tonk piano which really adds to the feel.

The reason I love this song is for the section around 4 minutes in when the piece dramatically changes. The tempo rises, the drums quicken and the piano starts to stand out a lot more. It really gives you a sense of panic, almost a claustrophobic panic. Its brilliant and sounds like it would make the perfect track for a film and, if edited well, a trailer. I use the slower paced sections for the first minute to give a mysterious feel. Later the music cuts out and I have silence with sudden thunder claps to open new shots, a convention of trailers, and finally when it looks like Corban is looking at someone I use the sound of a plane flying over to give that rising panic feeling. The screen blacks out and then cuts straight to Corban running away in panic with the music at the most epic part, in my oppinion, playing. Again another convention of being able to just catch someone off guard. I have edited it also to have the track finish at the right time then then fade out to the title showing "Limbo". Spoiler for the title right there... More to come