As the final formative is coming up and we are supposed to show a mock-up for our work I’ve chosen to create a trailer of the documentary. At first, it was quite vague on what I wanted to include so I had a look through what people would include in their documentary trailer. I watched Blackpink’s Light Up the Sky Trailer, BTS Break The Silence Trailer as well as Netflix’s Street Food Asia Trailer for some inspirations.
By doing the trailer it had helped me downsize the scope of the ideas for the documentary as well as I think it has carved out a path for me to take this documentary forward. The trailer has given me more ideas on the theme of the documentary as well.
To me, choosing the footage was quite difficult as there are so many, however, the most difficult part, I would say is choosing the music. Personally, I feel that when the music is slow, it gives the trailer and the documentary as a whole a different vibe, however when it’s more upbeat it gives off a different story and feels. So I took a lot of time to listen to background music and I think that that was the most time-consuming part.
However, I did enjoy creating the trailer and editing it as it gives me more ideas on what I could further develop for the final documentary and that gives me a glimpse of what it will look like once the final documentary is done. I’m eager to continue working on this project and excited to see the outcome.
Link To Trailer: https://youtu.be/PiWDpu8ny1Y
In addition to the creation of the trailer, as my first initial name for this project was called “For the Love of Soy Sauce”, which I liked but I thought it was a bit too long, I think that this title shows the interest that I have towards soy sauce, however, I still didn’t want to be 100% decisive to use this name, so I tried coming up with a few names. It was challenging because I didn’t want the names to be too complicated yet it still needs to be attractive and catchy enough. I tried looking into synonyms for ‘forgotten’, ‘ legacy’, ‘authentic and many more that could be linked to the project and tried to mix it up. I also noted down a list of words that I want to base the name around which includes:
- Authentic
- Growth
- Legacy
- Revival
- Story
Therefore the list of names that I’ve come up with included:
- The Untold Story
- Forgotten Family’s Recipe
- The Recipe
- The Family’s Recipe
- The Legacy
- Breakeven
- The Untouched Legacy
After looking at all the names listed I felt like The Untouched Legacy was the one to go with as the soy sauce remained untouched for the past few decades and has remained silent since then. Therefore now that there’s a documentary about the success I think that it perfectly tells the story of what the film is about.