http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogBjxasdQR0

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging Trailer

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age.

Narrative: Point of view of 14 year old girl.

Location: Eastbourne, Brighton.

Characters: Girl, her family, her friends, her love interest, her love rival.

Voice Over: Male Voice, not in cast.

Theme: Friendship, Family, Coming of Age.

Pacing: Medium - Fast paced sequences.

On-Screen Graphics:
Unpopular kid.
Close group of friends.
Love interest.
Love interests girlfriend.

Music (other sounds): Popular songs, Uplifting and pacey + song from band in film (at the end).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWQV6-QgGjI

Remember Me trailer

Genre: Romance, Drama, Coming of Age.

Narrative: P.O.V. of main character.

Location: New York.

Characters: Boy, Boys Sister, Boys Father, Boys Friend, Girl, Girls Father. (All in trailer)

Voice Over: Boys Journal.

Theme: Tragic Family loss, Coming of Age.

Pacing: Slow paced trailer.

On Screen Graphics:
Boy is lost, alone.
Meets girl.
Both have family problems.
Love grows between characters.

Music (other sounds): Guitar is playing slowly, softly. Picks up pace towards the end.

The majority of people find a school is appropriate for a romantic, coming of age, comedy.

People are undecided whether the voice overs we showed would work in the film trailer.

I asked around and the majority said, they thought the main character or a narrator should be speaking instead.

People like the initial scenes of the films and the build up that we are making, however this question was a little vague and we can't really use it for improvement.

People like the quality of our camera work, however this question is flawes as we couldn't change the camera if we wanted to.

The target audience we were looking for are in the majority of the people we asked for feedback from.

film planning

Ideas for movie trailer

Our movie idea is a romantic comedy based upon a girl who dreams of being the popular kid in school but is the school reject. Our Movie trailer we'll show a scene where she is confidently walking down a hallway, looking sexy and boys passing out at the sight of her. She is daydreaming. It then shows her looking very geeky in the same hallway, boys laughing at her and maybe dropping her books and falling over. Then scenes with friends and witty one liners, showing a possible love interest in the film leaving the audience to think 'will she become popular?... will she get with the guy?'. We wanted to make a film trailer that brings excitement and comedy to the audience, even though it is a amateur, cheap production.

Film Industry

There are three areas to the film industry;
The Production of the film takes time and money, creating and recording scenes, adding special effects, music and finally editing it all together.
The Distribution of the film takes money and connections, paying cinemas to show your production, making contracts and agreements for the premiers at big cinemas, creating merchandise and possible sequels.
The Exhibition of the film is watching the film at cinemas, buying the merchandise and the money culminating into evidence to make a sequel.
All three areas are vital for the success of any film.

Key Components of a Film Trailer

The key components of any film trailer are the codes and conventions within it.
Words you see are; the title of the film, the producers, famous actors and/or director.
Sounds you hear are; the voiceover, sound effects and added music.
The basic plot of the film is usually told but sometimes is also kept a mystery.
Shots of the film are either shown in short vague segments or showing a long clip to entice the audience in to watch the rest and to keep the mystery of the films content still hidden.

Preliminary Task - Storyboard of short movie