I have been using the new premier elements 10 at school, with this it has become much easier to develop and change the future project as I see fit. Instructions are as follow...

1. When on Premier Elements 10 go to change settings.
2. PAL
3. HDV
4. HDV 720p 25
5. Save to My Videos
6. Get media from the Get Media option, choose destination
7. Save by sharing, computer, FLV web large PAL source (Flash 8 and Higher)

Remember to switch between time ine and sceneline for best results.

Action Adventure Trailer Conventions

The conventions of action trailers are very similar to the actual conventions of the film... obviously. There are always action scenes, whether they turn up in the form of a fist fight, explosions, or an all out gun fight. This leads to the audince wondering why are they fighting, whilst also being in awe of the fights that are taking place. This usually means that special effects are also a mainstay of the trailer as well as the film, which can be easily assumed.

The tranformers 3 trailer is an excellent example of displaying an unsually large amount of explosions and fight scenes for a two and a half minute trailer.

Another convention is that there must always be an easily identified hero in the trailer. This may take the role of a retired cop who has to recue his family, or any number of "The Chosen One" charcters from multiple film e.g. Ash Ketchum, Shia la Beuf's character or Harry Potter. And of course  for it to be an action film trailer there needs to be a villain in direct competition with said here, to follow the conventions of good verses evil, and the desiceve fight at the climax of the trailer/ film, e.g. Bane, Dr Elsa Shneider and Roy Batty. ( the latter two are from Indiana Jones and Blade runner respectively)
In The Expendables The group of mismatch old fogies team up to deal with a seemingly impossible mission, and all the odds stacked against them. This is also a convention in many other action films.

Dead Snow

This film poster is of the film Dead Snow, a horror film starring nazi zombies. As you can see the focus of the poster here is that of a decapitated nazi officer. This obviously shows that the film follows the splatter horror sterotypes, as well as following the zombie movie cliches. The chainsaw is a particularly good example of how a weapon can be cliche, as in many horror films, the chainsaw is the "ultimate zombie killing weapon". Other features of the poster include the other zombies that you can see in the background, suggesting that the film will be full of the horde, and things may go quickly out of hand. The poster is clearly trying to appeal to your typical zombie film officianado and horror fan, as well as trying to appeal to those people which also like horror comedies, as proven by the review at the top which states "there is a storm of scary fun to be had in this splatterfest" The poster also shows the location of the film, which coincides with the film title itself. It's clearly in a cold, snowy area, which is unusual for there to be a zombie film set there. n the background you can see a cabin. Another mainstaw of the film could be that this is where the survivers will spend most of their time in safety, before the obvious fnal fight at the end of the film. Therefore it follows many of the horror film conventions and cliche's, minus the setting.

Prometheus Trailer Analysis

The trailer for Prometheus follows many of the typical conventions that you may expect from the sci-fi genre, including an alien, futuristic technology and advanced space travel. The music used starts out as your typical piece of sci-fi music, very "epic" and full of drum beats, the music situations change when the trailer shows a collection of short takes, a shrill, sharp noise is heard during each of the short takes. This adds to the level of horror you would expect from a film franchise which involves the bursting of chests via highly evolved predators. The costume of the protagonists in the trailer is that of stereotypical science fiction space suits complete with head mounted flash-lights, as expected from such a dark setting. The setting of this is shown to be on a world very unlike Earth, which is where they were led from via advanced communications. (star maps) Judging by the trailer the movie appears to take place mainly underground, as suggested by the the darkness of the location, and the lack of life other than that of the protagonists. This may have been done in the trailer to allow the audience to know that if they see this movie, they will know the fear that an underground location such as this can represent. The overland shots show a large horseshoe shape exiting the ground. Just from the trailer, we cannot tell if it is a ship, or a piece of antique masonry. This again further entices the viewers to actually discover the nature of this by watching the film. Lastly, there are multiple hints at alien life forms in the trailer, and how they may play a vital point in then films plot-line. The alien seen most profusely is seen to be half covered, enticing the audience to view what the monster could potentially look like, and how physically shocking it may be.

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