Gameplay Trailer Summery

Gameplay Trailer Summery 

This blog will be a brief description of one of my trailers there will be 3 in total. I will go over what i wanted to do in the trailer and how they have came out.

I studied a lot of gameplay trailers to really use them as a base to see what they look like and how they are filmed whether they are pretty intense and action packed or calm and story telling. after only watching a few trailers it was very obvious gameplay trailers are used to show off the action side of a game. So that's the base i used for my trailer to fill it full of fighting and action. The filming styles for these trailers are very montage like usually showing short clips of kills before it moves to another. Editing is pretty simple with only the camera fading in and out to make it feel smoother. In my trailer i have done exactly this i have used mods first of all to get the action scenes i wanted where huge battles could happen from there it was my getting the right shots by getting a few good shots and a few bad watching them keeping the good ones i liked and deleting the bad ones then restarting and finding different battle going on as the mod randomly generates these battle each fight is different with different outcomes making it very good to capture. For example here is a short unedited video I recorded to open with the video is 3 soldiers taking down an enemy although this is made in skyrim and the people fighting are AI this is how real players would attack if there was one enemy and 3 players they would all run to him knowing they would win they would all crowd around trying to get the kill and this is what i tried to capture the most realistic parts of the clips I recorded.

And for the editing of the video i kept this the same as the others by using a mix of simple yet effective techniques the main 2 i used was to open in sync with the music so i made the camera suddenly flash to play then cut to black then cut back again. After the music was more constant i wanted to make everything smoother so i made shots fade in and out and that's how i put the trailer together.

Also you will notice that i used my own character in skyrim for some of the kills this method was a lot easier and faster to record as NPC's doing this is pretty un common and when you are working to a deadline you cant afford to just wait. Also you will notice my player is wearing Armour different to the others this is to show the player that not every player will look the same and to add a little customization into this trailer too.

here is my finished gameplay trailer that i uploaded to youtube
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFuiDNdnBSg  

 Feel free to watch and comment with your thoughts and feedback it all helps thanks