Film Trailer = Editing

Here is a photo Millie editing the speed on one of our shots. We decided we wanted the shot slower to add to the romantic feel of the trailer, instead of it looking too fast or snappy.

Film Trailer = Risk Assessment

Before filming, Millie and I decided we needed to conduct a risk assessment as we could see parts of our trailer could be slightly risky, in both filming and generally creating. The first issue we came to whilst creating our trailer was the process of recruitment. Our trailer has a rather intimate storyline and we wanted the potential actors/actresses to feel comfortable in the roles. So in order to overcome this we created a recruitment poster detailing the specifics of the role in order to give potential actors/actresses a well rounded idea of what the role entailed. Our next risk was apparent during filming. We wanted to film a shot out of the back of a car, through the boot window, this would require the cameraman, in the case Millie as I would be driving, facing backwards and not wearing a seatbelt. We figured that we could film the shot very slowly and carefully, with me driving no faster than 10mph, and speed up the shot on iMovie if necessary. This way Millie would be safer in the car. Another shot we had trouble with whilst filming was a 360 degree rule shot. We wanted to get this shot a steady as possible so decided to put the cameraman on a spinning desk chair. This obviously came with the risk of the cameraman falling off the chair, so to overcome this we changed the shot to a lower angle shot so the cameraman could be sat on the chair instead of stood, eliminating the risk of falling. A final hazard with filming was the shower scene. This scene included the two main characters in the shower, filmed from shoulder height upwards. As we wanted to create a misty /foggy appearance in the room we had to leave the shower running, causing condensation to build on the tiled floor and the floor of the shower itself. To overcome this issue, we made sure we moved carefully and slowly, especially when holding the camera and Millie and I, who weren't in the shower, made sure we had suitable footwear on in order not to slip.

Film Trailer = Title Font Research

After deciding that we wanted to call our film 'Loving You', we needed to research other films of our genre and plotline to see what font would be most appropriate. We firstly looked into films of the same genre, social realism, and found a film called 'This Is England' by Shane Meadows. This is about a young boy who becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. These friends soon become family and the relationships between them are pushed to the absolute limit. The title of this film is written in bold capital letters to help convey the harsh reality of the plotline. It is also rather simple which helps us focus on picture characters behind but on the other hand the simplicity is cancelled out by the use of colours, with connotations of the English flag.

We then looked at another film in the same genre 'Fish Tank'. This is about a 15 year old girl  whose life changes when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. The title of this film is written, again, in capital letters, making it the most eye catching part of  the poster/DVD cover. Helping this, the font is written in orange, a bright colour with connotations, in this context, of a goldfish, linking back to the title 'Fish Tank'. Millie and I liked this idea of the orange font linking to the title but we also felt like it drew a lot of attention away from the rest of the image. We also thought, like This Is England, the capitalisation of the title helped convey the harsh reality of the film. We felt like this wasn't applicable to our title as the storyline is soft and romantic, not grating.

As we had looked at two films in the same genre and neither provoked any ideas for our own title, we decided to look at films with a similar storyline instead. When creating our storyline we took inspiration from a film called 'Blue is the Warmest Colour', which is about a girl called Adele whose life changes when she meets Emma, another young girl with blue hair. The film shows Adele finding her true self and eventually finding love. So we decided to look back at this films title which appears to be handwritten, with the word 'blue' written in blue font, linking to the Emma's hair, and the rest of the title in black. The use of the light blue colouring added to the softness of the font and Millie and I really liked this aspect of the title and wanted to recreate this delicacy in our title.

Film Trailer = Music

Millie and I decided to record our own soundtrack for our trailer. We researched other trailers to see what soundtracks were used for similar genres and found that the majority of them consisted of slow, emotion filled songs and a more upbeat and happy song, dependent on the ending of the film. For example, the film 'The Choice', staring Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer, includes the Sam Smith song 'Like I can' and sound bridges to a more upbeat song nearing the end. So Millie and I decided to take from this and use a different song by Sam Smith called 'Leave Your Lover' as the lyrics fitted perfectly to the storyline of our film. The chorus has the lyrics 'leave your lover, leave him for me' this is a great match to our film plotline as the main protagonist is wishing that her love interest would leave her boyfriend to be with her. We believed this was a good idea to record our own soundtrack as it uses our skill to our own advantage and enables us to use something we are confident in. We have now practised this a lot together and are currently waiting for a slot in the recording studio at school. Once we've recorded the song we will start to fit the shots we have to the music as we believe that this will help the emotion in the trailer really come through. We also want to create a more light-hearted track to use at the start of our trailer and will so by using the software at school called 'Logic Pro' on the Macs.