After VoxPop

After filming our VoxPop,  we were shown lots of ideas that were expected of a romatic film trailer, we are going to take note of these and try to include them in our trailer. This will make the film trailer look more professional, which is a postitive. We trust what the people in our voxpop as even though we asked a variety of people, we found them all to be correct with their answers, we think it would be beneficial to take advice from the public/audience as that is where our trailer would go, therefore it is best to go with what they want to see.

One thought raised was that the trailer should be romantic and perhaps easy-going. This would mean making a light hearted trailer that would be easy to watch, we think this is achievable, although our chosen genre is meant to be quite difficult, or not as easy as say, a thriller film, we want to and will make sure that we do the best we can.

Music is another crucial aspect for our film trailer to be a success, the music represents the pace of the trailer, and also sets the mood. we are thinking of doing a voxpop specific for the music to a romatic film. This would be beneficial as although we have an idea of what sort of music would be obvious to use, e.g soft piano, we could be presented with a variety of choices from the audience that we ask.

Picture Mood Board

A photo mood board of our trailer, including photos that we fit to be relevant to the happenings in the trailer we are making. Such as a main shot, of the leaf falling from the tree, this symbolises the death of the woman's husband.

Animatic

This is the animatic that we made, it is a storyboard of our film trailer. This shows a basic outline of what we aim to achieve in our film trailer, showing some effects on certain shots and certain aspects that a trailer must have, such as the BBFC rate card. We have also said which shots we intend on using. Although this is the outline of our film trailer, we expect to make some changes/imporvement along the way in order to create the most successful outcome.

  

We have decided to add in another couple of shots into the trailer. They are both in the town centre (Marlborough) with a Christmas setting, lights in the high street and window displays in the shops. One of the shots will be of the female walking through the town, she will be walking slowly whilst the happy families and couples will be walking fast, we will do this by the female character barely moving and people walking normally, when we edit this section we will put it into a fast motion, looking like her world is moving slowly and everything around her is working. The other shot will be from her point of view in the high street, she will be looking into the shop windows, there will be soft, emotional music playing over the top, and the diegetic sound will be quietened slightly to focus on the music.

Casting

For the characters we want an attractive, naturally pretty female and an attractive male to act as her husband. The second man should also be attractive, this is common in romantic films as it draws in viewers and perhaps seems more realistic, a lot of well known actresses/actors are attractive therefore we will mimic this to make our film trailer look real.

VoxPop

My partner and I interviewed a range of people to see what their expectations are of romantic drama film trailers.

Conventions of a Film Trailer

- Voiceovers are used to tell the story and give credit information

- Stars of the films are showcased

- Key points of the film and sometimes conveyed through titles

- Conversation between characters often consist of one liners

- Dramatic camera angles may be chosen to show events or characters

- Action is interspersed with actor/director credits on screen

- Music plays an important role in creating the right atmosphere

- Titles appear at end or sometimes throughout

- Trailer builds to climax where it ends

- Montage used to highlights, the most dramatic humourous or past paced or films

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