Our primary idea for both of our teaser trailers was very simple, yet extremely effective, resulting in an ambiguous yet intriguing video that will leave potential audiences wanting to attend our performance.

Below are stills from each trailer, and a link to the finished product via YouTube.

This was our first trailer. The trailer shows K sitting on a bench reading; throughout the trailer an image of a hangman drawn in chalk rapidly appears and disappears behind K. The flickering of the hangman is representative of K’s inner-thoughts. Whilst K tries to ignore these thoughts the flickering becomes more frequent and powerful, eventually remaining on the wall permanently. This suggests K’s mind has been completely succumbed to the thought of his impending fate. In the final shot of the video K looks directly at the camera, this shows the audience K has acknowledged the thoughts he was trying to repress, and he is no longer trying to fight them, in addition to this the final image creates a powerful ending to the short trailer to interest audiences. Following this final image details of STAMP Theatre’s performance appear as if written by a type writer, this keeps with the style of our performance.

This is our second trailer. we changed location for this video, however we kept the same style as previously stated. Joseph K simply standing up suggests that he is waiting for his approaching court case. Simultaneously, Joseph K checks the time on his watch whilst the image of the hangman appears on the brick wall, this signifies his conscious apprehension towards his mysterious trial.

The trailers were produced using editing software named Sony Vegas, I used two images to construct each trailer…

• The raw footage of Stuart either sitting on the bench reading or standing by the brick wall, and..
• A simple outline of a game of hangman in chalk – I downloaded a suitable Photoshop paintbrush to do this successfully.

I then layered these two images on top of each other and then edited the image to make the hangman picture flash on and off. Additionally, details of our performance then appeared at the end.

We have posted both of these trailers online via our company Facebook and Twitter profiles, this successfully spreads the news of our performance through the most popular medium, the internet. It is also currently being arranged that the second trailer will play on the television screens in the LPAC foyer, not only will this be played in the upcoming weeks of our performance, but prior to the actual performance on Friday 17th May.

Caitlin Clark