Trailer Plan: First Draft Alterations

After starting work on our storyboards for our film trailer, we concluded that our film didn't have a recognisable USP. So we got to work and accumulated ideas that we could use to alter our plotline slightly to provide a recognisable Unique Selling Point.

First Draft of Film Trailer Plan

Shot 1: Central Protagonist: Alice is in the shower room, looking into the mirror or wiping steam off the mirror. Lighting is artificial and has an orange hue. Over the shoulder shot to show her reflection in the mirror.

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

Shot 3: Shows Alice with friends and meeting romantic interest: Maggie. They either meet with formal introductions or by making eye contact as 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.

Shot 4: Dismemberment shots of Alice and Maggie lying in bed. Smooth transition from each shot to highlight how there isn’t a big transition of time between the shots. Shots show their hands and legs and hair, without directly showing their faces.

Shot 5: Alice is in the middle of 2 of her friends who are kissing her cheeks either side and taking pictures. A sound bridge to another shot with dialogue 'do you ever wonder what  | their reaction might be?'

| = 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. Before this, upbeat music was playing, after there is more solemn music playing.

Shot 6: A high angle shot of Alice looking up at Maggie, close up shot showing emotion, in an intimate situation. The high angle shot puts them in a position of vulnerability, especially Alice.

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

Shots after this could speed up.

Final shots switch from negative to positive content, back and forth.

Shot 8: This shot is continued from the first shot and shows Alice in the shower, artificial lighting shows how she believes her friends won't be open to the idea and suggest that the way she feels is 'unnatural' like the lighting.

Shot 9: Alice and Maggie are shown to be arguing, shouting at one another.

Shot 10: Returns to the dismemberment shot of Alice and Maggie again.

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

Shot 12: Alice then says ‘all has changed since loving you’. The shot then fades out to black to reveal the title ‘Loving You’.

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Film Trailer: Initial Ideas

Horror

The trailer would be filmed with a camcorder effect much like ‘The Blair Witch Project’ 1999. The plotline focusses on a group of school friends around the ages of 17-18. A member of the close knit group called Jo goes missing and the police are lead to believe that she has been kidnapped and eventually pronounce her as dead. The group of friends then go on a camping trip to the woods to celebrate her life. However, it is revealed that Jo is not dead. Jo escapes from her kidnappers and is clearly not the same person she used to be before the kidnap, and in a deranged and twisted turn of events, she finds her group of friends in the woods and kills them one by one. This is an act of revenge as her friends never tried to look for her.

Chick Flick

The trailer features the stereotypical blonde female and the tall, dark and handsome male. The pair are in a relationship and the beginning of the trailer shows the audience how desperately in love the female is with him. Shots in the trailer show the pair together all of the time. However out of the blue, he suddenly breaks up with her. Post breakup, the central protagonist female comes to the conclusion that actually, her relationship has consumed so much of her life she actually has very little friends and hobbies. Coming to the conclusion that she doesn’t truly know who she is, she sets off on a journey of self-exploration.

Social Realism Drama

The trailer shows the central protagonists self-confliction and awkwardness around her friends due to her having homosexual feelings and her friends being totally unaware. The central protagonist then falls in love with another girl but they must keep their relationship a secret in order to spare themselves of ridicule from their peers. Her friends then find out and she must then overcome adversity.