BLOOPER VIDEO

Trailer draft 5

Due to one of the previous actors not being available, a recast has had to be filed. This meant that I had to re-film all of my trailer within 72 hours before the trailer deadline. 

here is a draft for the new footage.

Character profiles (changed)

Tessa: Bethany Mallett
Characteristics: Brown hair, blue eyes, 5"3 tall.
Why is she suitable for the character?: She is a suitable candidate as she is willing to get involved with our production, her physical features are what we are looking for in our character Tessa. She also has a similar fashion to her character and lifestyle, meaning she can be herself in the production, and will not find it hard to get into character.

Luna: Trinity Roberts
Characteristics: Short brown hair, dark clothing style with Brown eyes. 5"5 tall
Why is she suitable for the character?: I feel that she will fit the character due to accepting to be a part of the production. I feel this will be a slight challenge for her to change to the character but she will be able to do it as she does have similar antisocial characteristics. She also has lots of different clothing in which she could wear for the videoing sessions.

Jamie: Lauren Brown
Characteristics: Red rockchick hair, brown eyes 5"6 tall
Why is she suitable for the character?: Similar to Tessa's reasoning. Her personality and characteristics are similar to the character due to being very rebellious in her behaviour, as well as not being a highly social character in social situations, in which is very similar to the part of Jamie. She is a person who would be willing to partake with the production as well as being part of the team creating the trailer. She wears similar clothing so will not need to buy clothes for the production.

Final draft print products

Feedback from overall products via Facebook (social media)

Improvements to script

Luna:
This is the story about how I lost my bestfriend... my co worker and almost ruined my career.
But lets start at the beginning.


Tessa:

(Curiously) "Are you going to the meeting for the BFI competition later?"

Tessa's friend Louise: 

(disgusted) "EUGH, Why would I go to that??"

Tessa:

(monotone) " Have you ever been so oblivious to some people who make you happy?"

Tessa:

(monotone) "And they disappoint you?"

Tessa:

(argumentatively/loud angry tone) "I thought you were becoming a better person!"

Luna:

(sassy tone) "Well at least my old friends don't try and change me like i'm incapable of being myself!"

Luna:

inspiration for improvements

After looking at my first draft of my trailer I realised I needed to make some slight improvements. From my trailer, I could see that it does not completely follow conventions of indie films/coming of age films. One key convention I have noticed is the use of narration, This is because the audience want to feel close with the main character and in most situations, the main character narrates the story so that you can follow. Here are two examples of trailers, not particularly of my genre, that follow this convention that I could incorporate into my trailer. 

My voice over script:

• My names Luna Bloome and this is my story...
• I feel like life relates to diary of a whimpy kid, when i'd prefer the breakfast club
• I don't really like making friends..
• Wait. that's a lie. I'm just not very good at it. 
• Ok.. i'm awkward.. this is so awkward
• I don't really know who I am yet
• But I definitely know it's not bloody butterflies and rainbows
• I feel like I try really hard to be friends with the local Barbie
• But no one beats my best friend Jamie. 

Inter title improvements

I have realised looking back at existing products, as well as my own trailer that my intertitles do not look as professional as they should. Therefore I went back onto fireworks to edit my intertitles more to see if this helps to create a more professional tone to my trailer. 

I think because of my audience, it is a good idea to include links to social media as this is a big influence on young peoples lives, as well as helping to show more marketing techniques that I could include for this piece. 

Redrafted trailer

Synopsis development

On a normal Wednesday morning, both girls Luna, who is an antisocial, unpopular teen and Tessa, who is one of the most popular girls in school go to school in their normal routines. Completely oblivious to what is going to happen, that they would be collided with each other and their routines would change throughout their teenage years. Both start off the day by having their normal boring lessons, then when travelling to school they notice a poster, which is meeting for a competition for making a documentary, created by the BFI, which if won will be rewarded £1000 and an internship with the company. Both Luna and Tessa are excited about the idea of this competition, and think that they will be able to do the project independently, in which Luna's teacher has to break the news to Luna that you have to work in groups of 2 and she will have to work with a girl called Tessa. The two girls are both late to the meeting, but when they get there at the door, they give each other dirty looks and both rush through the door, to find no one else at the meeting. This causes the two girls to look at each other and question what may have happened. Tessa suggests they wait to see if any more students arrive. In silence they wait for another 10 minutes and realise that no one else is coming, and the teacher is reluctant to stay for the whole meeting due to the bad turn out. He tells them what they need to do for the competition, and leave the meeting. They look at each other and realised this what they had to work with.

For the first few weeks they decide to meet up twice a week, in a place that no one will see, as Tessa does not want to be seen with Luna as her friends will bully her for it. Then decide what they want the documentary to be about, death or parties, and then they start to think about the town that they live in, which is Birmingham. This is something that has been historically known and there are lots of different perspectives that they can look at. The good, the bad and the ugly. This is where the friendship that they created started to strengthen. They start to not care about being seen as their friendship is what they have both wanted, as Luna never had a friend as good as her and tessa has always been seen as popular, but never had an actual best friend that she could trust. They start to really enjoy their friendship and forget about the documentary. They also start to go to each other's houses in which they see the true difference between them. Tessa does not have a good home life and is seen as she does not have a lot of money, and is not of a good social class in comparison to Luna who has a lot of money. Luna choses past this as she likes having her as a friend. Throughout recording, there are parts in which they forget and record each other and the amazing friendship that is starting to arise. 

This all goes downhill when Jamie starts to become more jealous about them working together and Tessa breaking their relationship, as well as Luna wanting to get the documentary finished and shares the video without asking for Tessa's permission.
Then during school, Luna see's Tessa upset because her friends have fallen out with her, because she lied about where she has been.
However Luna, alone at home realises that the whole thing was her fault and that shes not happy in her friendship with Jamie. Without telling Tessa, Luna takes the footage she had and edits the documentary herself, but instead of carrying on with the plan of making a documentary on their town, Luna collects all the footage of Tessa and makes a short documentary about her, about how great she is. She makes the film as a way of saying sorry to her, and submits it without Tessa knowing, but including her name on the publishing comments, so it would be submitted as a group, not an individual. 

Final print poster

Here is my final design for my print product poster for my trailer 'Happening upon Luna'. I have improved the credits and the background to create a gradient look from a silver/purple, to white. I will however conduct more audience feedback to ensure that my product is the most professional and is appealing to my audience to the best of it's ability.

Audience feedback:

IMPROVEMENTS TO MY PRINT PRODUCT FROM AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:

After speaking to my teacher, I have been given some tips that I could use to help improve this product further in order to appeal to my audience more:

• Change the logo, as it looks pixalated and messy. 
• Attempt to change some of the fonts as they do not compliment each other. 
• The outline between the background and main image needs to be edited. 
• Potentially the main image could be changed due to the picture not having a direct mode of address. 

additional experimental photos:

Second draft of my media trailer

Storyboard (first draft)

I have used storyboard.that to be able to create the images to my storyboard, to get an understanding of what my trailer will look like. Below I created a written storyboard that goes into more detail. I could not go into full detail with my images using this site as there is not as wide variety of pictures and features to chose from, for example background scene images or props such as books and cameras.

additional photos:

Here are some additional photos that I could use for either my poster or my magazine front cover.

Second film magazine design draft

First magazine draft.

film magazine images

I have took some more photos of my characters for my magazine front cover as these will be more professional looking and will have a better effect on the audience. I have took photos of the character 'Luna' with the camera and without. This helps to link with the character as Luna likes to take most of the videos for their documentary, therefore the camera is a key feature of the picture,




Here are some of the images I think I will experiment using for my magazine draft:

Magazine layouts:

Masthead ideas

I have used Dafont.com to brainstorm ideas on which of what my masthead should look like, so that I can get some audience feedback from it. I have chosen the name 'capture' as it links to the theme of cinema and photography, I also chose it because out of the ideas I gave to my audience, they suggested that 'capture' was the best suited for my audience/genre/masthead name.

Movie magazine names?

I am starting to think more into my print products, such as my movie magazine and need to think of a good name for my institution. I am trying to think of different names that would appeal to my audience, and that would suit starring a coming of age/Indie film. By this I thought of synonyms for 'entertainment' or to attract my intended audience, which would be teens or young adults.

So far I have thought of names such as:

• INTEREST
• PICTUREHOUSE
• FEATURE
• CINEMATIC
• INDIE FILM
• TEEN FILM 
• CAPTURE

As i prefer the name 'Picture house' I have attempted to find some fonts that could be seen as appropriate for a movie magazine to visualise my product. So far I have found these different fonts:

The definition of the word 'picture house' is an old fashioned term for cinema, meaning that there is an old fashioned twist to what is now seen as a modern term for teenage cinema. Because of this definition, most of the fonts I have found have a slight old fashioned touch to them, as well as having a type writer font as well as this is also something old fashioned but is seen as more common in modern coming of age films. As if the audience are finding retro cool again. 

Audience Feedback on my idea:

Film magazine picture ideas

I have been thinking about my photos I will need to take for my film magazine front cover, but by this I need to think about various different features:

• The direct mode of address
• The type of shot
• How the character should be portrayed in the photos
• The background of the photo - Will it be white? black? a setting?
• What will the models/characters be wearing. 

I have looked at various different film magazines that I could take inspiration purely for the photos that have been taken. The left hand side I thought about Tessa and the lighthearted atmosphere about the whole photo. The middle image I thought about both characters, the female would represent Tessa and the Male would represent Luna, with regards to their facial expressions and the connotations I see when looking at the image. Finally the right photo I thought about Luna, as I feel throughout her character you get a feeling of pressure through her stare and how she has no emotion, I think she links to this image, as all of her characteristics are in her face and what expressions she portrays instead of her clothing and other factors.
I think I will try to recreate some of these images to see if they would suit my magazine front covers. 

Media trailer first draft.

This is the first trailer draft that I have created. I can now look at the improvements I need to make as well as asking for audience feedback on my trailer to see what my target audience think of the product and if they have any ideas on what they would change, so that I can make these improvements.

My own ideas on improvements:

• Some of the scenes will need more variety of different shots
• could experiment with inter titles
• the inter title with 'Jamie' is too staged and not as natural. 
• The audio is not as suitable for the trailer as I would of liked. 

Here is the audience feedback I was given by 3 targeted audience members:

Potential inter titles: