Rian Neal

18/09/12 – 24/09/12

GAME TRAILER

WHAT IS A GAME TRAILER?• Game Trailers are a way of showing what may be included in a new game that will soon

be out to buy.

• Game Trailers can be good for profit. They may encourage everyone see their new game then they might think about buying it.

• Game Trailers show what is inside the game. For example. First person shooter, Action and Cars Racing.

• Game Trailers always let you know what date they will be coming out.

• Game Trailers show which type of modern consoles the games will work on. For example; Wii, Playstation 3, Nintendo DS and Xbox 360.

• Game Trailers mainly show in 3D but there is also 2D for Nintendo DS.

HOW ARE GAME TRAILERS CREATED?• Game trailers are created by taking small pieces/scenes of the game and editing them

into a short video clip. Words and sound effects are then added to the trailer to make it enjoyable to watch.

WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE?Their purpose is to achieve lots of people viewing their game trailer and then aiming to sell

very well to gain lots of profit with money.

Why are companies showing game trailers?

So when their game is complete and they’ve finished making it they want people to know about the game. This is their main reason to show the game trailer on television, newspapers and on websites.

What’s in a game trailer?

In game trailers they show their gameplay in what type of games. Sometimes they show short cool looking movies to make people want to buy it and also make people aware of what is inside their newly created game.

WHERE / HOW ARE THEY NORMALLY SHOWN?• They are normally shown in advertising like in this list.

• Television

• Cinema

• Radio

• Website Adverts

• IPhone & Mobile

• Comics and Magazines

• Newspapers

• Billboards

• Posters

ARE THEY TARGETED TO PARTICULAR AUDIENCES, GENDER, AGE?• The company’s aim is get lots of people to view their new game that is coming out so they

can get more profit by selling very well.

• They try to target both genders. male and female to play their games. They try to create something suited to them both.

• Not everyone can buy the games. Some have suitable aging on them, for example, 12, 16 or 18. But young children are still able to access games that are over 18 because some parents are buying their children these games and agreeing that it is ok for them to play them. This may be a good idea for profit for the games companies selling them but it is illegal so parents need to be careful when buying games for their children.

AGE RATING• + 3 is okay for any age because it has no violence and strong

language so they are suiting for 3 year olds.

• + 7 is suited for over 7 year olds and no younger so there have General View, like for example anime fighting and wars fighting.

• + 12 is suited for over 12 year olds. This may need parents to watch their child playing the game. It may have shooting in it but no blood involved.

• + 16 can include; strong language, blood, violence, shooting and fighting in it.

• + 18 must be played by over 18’s only, it is the law because it has too much blood, swearing and nudity.

GAME TRAILER GRAPHIC All game trailers are different, they are not the same because these game trailers have different graphics and genres for example.

• The Halo 4 Game Trailer Graphics is 3D with a short film of real life people.

• The Pokémon Game Trailer normally uses 2D graphics.

• Borderlands 2 Game Trailer has very different graphics with 3D and uses different colours, it looks like a cartoon.

DO THEY FIT INTO CERTAIN GENRE’S OR STYLES?

They definitely fit into all types of genre’s in game trailers but most of them show shooter and very few are action and sci-fi games. These are the list of genre’s included in game trailers.

• Shooter – First person and Third person.

• Sci-fi – Aliens taking over the world and playing space ship games.

• Racing – Racing posh cars or F1 racing games.

• Fitness – Helping people get fitter by use games.

• Role Playing – Playing as Knight, Mage or Archery.

Also Game Trailers show lots of different game styles.

LIST OF REFERENCES USED IN THE RESEARCHI used secondary research to find out about the Game Trailers by using;

• IGN Website – To see their own games, gameplay and trailer

• YouTube – For checking Games Trailers to give me a idea.

• Google – To research for games and information to collect data about games.

• Google Images – to find pictures of gameplay and game logos.

ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD

1. The start of the Assassins Creed Trailer will show the age rating 18 + because it is important to show it before people enjoy watching it and want to try to but it. This will avoid any disappointment at the end of the trailer.

2. The Second image shows the game developer company. This shows who the game belongs to.

3. At the start it shows an English captain on his horse to ready to commend the war against USA. I thought this would be good to show at the start to see the English captain getting ready for battle.

ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD 21. English captain takes out his telescope

to see the USA army.

2. English line up ready their guns to start shooting at the USA. It is looking pretty good so far and has a link to help people understand what is going on at war.

3. When English army start shooting, the USA army start to fall back and carry wounded people away. It is cool to see the English are winning.

ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD 31. While the war between the English and

the USA is happening far far away, there are trees with a hawk on it watching the war. You can see the hawk flying though the forest.

2. When the hawk flies through the forest the assassin appears running on top of the trees and jumping. Then he arrives at the USA HQ. It would be really cool to show the assassin jumping down to the ground.

3. When the assassin arrives at the USA HQ he walks though the guards and walks into the battlefield.

ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD 41. Then the Assassin grabs hold of the horse

belt and gets on to ride it. The ground is very uneven and dangerous for the horse.

2. While the assassin is riding through the battlefield he is trying get to the English army to stop. It is brilliant to see the bomb coming from a cannon as the background scenery.

3. Meanwhile, when the assassin is riding, the English army ready their guns and aim to shoot the USA army and the assassin. The captain orders to shoot.

ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD 51. The assassin falls off because the

horse has been shot dead. He doesn't give up, he just keeps running towards the English army.

2. The USA captain takes his telescope and sees the assassin running towards the English army. The USA captain is impressed with the assassin dodging the bullets.

3. When the assassin is running he has flashbacks about previous assassins in the past.

ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD 6 1. His flashback is about the first assassin

Altaïr, Ezio’s father was the assassin in Rome, Italy. His job was to stop people getting killed by the Roman guards.

2. When his Flashbacks fade the assassin is already amongst the English army jumping to kill the soldiers in order to get through to kill the captain.

3. When the second flashback happened it showed the second assassin Ezio appear in the same place, Italy.

ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD 7 1. When the flashbacks have ended for the

assassin, he looks around and everything has changed. The English army had fallen, the USA are winning and the English Captain is hurting on ground. He has a gun with no bullets left although he still points it in the direction of the assassin who is walking towards him.

2. The assassin uses the axe to kill the English captain to help stop the war for good. However, there are still more English soldiers heading for the USA army and the assassin.

3. After the assassin has killed the captain the hawk flies up high to the city to show that the assassin is the third successful assassin in history. The logo for the game appears at the end of the trailer.