Film Trailer = Plan Alterations

After Millie and I started to draw up our storyboards and having a talk with our media teacher, Millie and I realised we didn't have a unique selling point. We decided to come up with some ideas that could slightly alter the plotline to provide a USP.

Idea 1:
Alice and Maggie have a secret relationship which is put under pressure when Maggie wants their relationship to be known by their family and friends. This is a problem because Alice isn't openly gay where as Maggie is. Alice isn't ready to open up to her family and friends and has to decide whether to come out and be with Maggie or to stay in the closet and deal with the consequence of losing Maggie.

Idea 2:
 Maggie and Alice fall deeply in love and are both open about it to their friends and family. But suddenly Maggie dies, by either a tragic accident or suicide. Alice is left alone to recover from her broken heart with no support from her friends as they all fell out when she started her relationship with Maggie. Due to Alice being left alone the plot line then shows her regaining her strength.

Idea 3:
Alice and Maggie are keeping their relationship a secret but not because one of them I sin the closet because Maggie has a boyfriend. To make matters even worse Maggie's boyfriend is the local crime goer and if he found out about the relationship both Maggie and Alice would be in great danger. The plotline then shows them risking keeping the relationship a secret to be with one another and then having to run away from Maggie's ex-boyfriend and his friends.

Film Trailer = First Draft of Plan

Shot 1: Central Protagonist: Alice is in the shower, looking into the mirror. Lighting is artificial and has an orange tint to it. We will use an over the shoulder shot to show her reflection in the mirror.

Shot 2: Shows Alice in a natural setting which we've chosen to be her school, a wide shot is used to show off location.

Shot 3: Shows Alice with her friends and meeting the romantic interest, Maggie. They meet by making eye contact across the room or hallway, they haven’t yet met before. Camera tracks Maggie from the perspective of Alice, so it's like through her eyes and then tracks around to show Alice looking at Maggie as she walks by. This scene could have bright lighting, to portray the characters happy emotions.

Shot 4: Dismemberment shots of Alice and Maggie lying in a bed. We will make sure there is a smooth transition from each shot to highlight how there isn’t a large transition of time between the shots. Shots show their hands and legs and hair etc. without directly showing either of their faces.

Shot 5: Alice is in the middle of two of her friends who are taking funny photos, such as kissing her cheeks either side or making peace signs with their hands. Then a sound bridge to the next shot with dialogue 'do you ever wonder what  | their reaction might be?' This is talking about the reaction of her friends.

| = new shot. Next shot shows her finishing her sentence as she looks up at Maggie.

During the end of this dialogue, the music stops. This allows for a new song to be played which will be more solemn in a contrast to the song that was being played before which was upbeat and happy.

Shot 6: A high angle shot of Alice looking up at Maggie, close up shot to show her emotions, in this intimate situation. The high angle shot puts them in a position of vulnerability, especially Alice.

Shot 7: This shot shows that all of Alice and Maggie’s friends have found out about their relationship and their reactions aren’t good. Alice is looking on social media and is seeing all of the negative things people are saying about her.

Shots after this could speed up and become shorter. Final shots switch from negative to positive content, back and forth.

Shot 8: This shot is continued on from the first shot and shows Alice in the shower again. We will keep the artificial lighting as it shows how she believes her friends won't be open to the idea and could suggest that she believes the way she feels towards Maggie is 'unnatural' like the lighting.

Shot 9: Alice and Maggie are shown arguing/shouting maybe in a private place such as a bedroom or in the school environment so the situation is more intense.

Shot 10: Returns to the dismemberment shots (shot 4) of Alice and Maggie again.

Shot 11: Alice is scrolling through the negative posts on social media on her laptop. Shot reverse shot is used to show the audience the comments on the screen and then to show Alice’s reaction to these comments.

Shot 12: Alice then says ‘All has changed since loving you’. The shot then fades out to black to reveal the title ‘Loving You', which appears as the words are said.

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Film Trailer = Recruitment Poster

Millie and I decided we wanted to use students from our own school in our trailer, preferably ones who study A Level or AS Level drama. So we decided to create a poster which we printed out and stuck around our sixth form area and in the drama department, in order to target the correct students.

Film Trailer: Questionnaire and Feedback

Questionnaire and Feedback from Ella Sandison

Film Trailer = Final Idea

Millie and I decided to produce our own social realist drama. This genre normally focuses on topical issues in current modern society, such as money, drugs, sex, class and political views. Here is our trailer brief:

Project Name:	Loving You
Medium/Format:	Film trailer and accompanying poster and magazine cover
Length:	Three to four minutes
Deadline:	16th December 2016
Group Members:	Ella Sandison and Millie Turner
Brief overview of content (approx. 50 words):	The trailer starts with one central female protagonist who feels awkward around her friends because they don’t know that she is gay. She meets a girl who is in a heterosexual relationship, the second central protagonist, and they fall in love. Her friends and the boyfriend find out about the relationship and things take a turn for the worse. After a period of self-confliction and torment she comes to grips with her sexuality.
Target audience (age, gender bias (if any), Socio-economic status and lifestyle profiling):	Teenagers of both sexes, this is because it is easier for them to relate as it is produced by teenagers and the main protagonists and other characters will all be of this age.
Possible Scheduling/ publishing suggestions:	The trailer would be shown in cinemas before films of a similar genre, in order to target the correct film goers. It could also been shown around television programs, or film shown on TV, of the same genre to again target the correct people.
What comparable products have you researched?	We watched the trailer for ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’ which is about a girl realising her sexuality and over-coming the stigma around it. We also watched the trailer for ‘trainspotting’ although this doesn’t share any similarities in plot line it is a social realist drama which is was we intend to produce.
What is the rationale behind this text? (What key codes and conventions will we use to keep the audience engaged?)	Our trailer will include minimal special effects in order to keep it as realistic as possible. We will also do this by focusing on the majority of the populations feeling and emotions and not just a small select percentage.
What representations will be operating in your text? Are these justified?	One representation we will be using is innocent youth. This is because it can present the characters as more naïve as they haven’t been exposed to the world, and we can play on this throughout the trailer. Another representation would be of homosexual relationships, this relationship goes against the stereotype of their being a more masculine partner and a more feminine partner.
How will you test whether the product is successful? How will you check that it accomplishes the intended effect?	We will use questionnaires to evaluate our product and these will be handed to people in our target audience after they have viewed the trailer. The questions will be tailored to see whether our representations have come across correctly and to see how effective our conventions are.
What generic codes and conventions will be operating in your text?	The setting will be in a school environment in order to incorporate the idea of awkwardness between her and her friends and peer-pressure. These ideas are normally more apparent in a school environment.
What are overt (obvious) messages incorporated into the text?	The obvious message in this trailer that homophobia is wrong and that not all love stories are heterosexual.
Are there any (hidden) messages incorporated into the text?	The hidden message is internal homophobia, the rejection of what the protagonist is feeling.
Identify any resource constraints (time, money, equipment, human resources) that might affect your production and your hopes for your product?	Time is always at a shortage, so effective time management will be key in order to complete the task in time. Money shouldn’t be an issue as this is a social realist drama, it won’t require special effects or costly camera equipment. However, human resource will be hard to tackle. As we require a handful of actors/actresses we will have to think carefully about people’s time tables and free time in order to have the whole cast together at once.
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