Applying Feedback to Editing

When we first showed a rough draft of our first bits of footage, as well as our proposed storyboard, the feedback was to add in more elements of violence, and too have the story focus on physical and mental abuse, rather than just mental abuse alone. 

Following this we looked at the trailer for the 2011 British drama film Tyrannosaur, as the story focuses on a violent male, played by Peter Mullen, as well as a physical abusive relationship between the actors Olivia Colman and Edie Marsan:

The trailer only suggests at the abusive relationship within the story through building up shots of violent actions, quick editing, the dull colour palette, make up and dark lighting.

Therefore, after watching this we added in more shots that suggest at the abusive relationship, as well as the violence from the character Tom. We also changed the script for our voiceovers to add in more sympathy for the character of Alex, as well as to create her to be more vulnerable in comparison to Tom:

Mood Video

Connie created a mood video to ensure that we knew we always had something to come back to if we felt like we were straying from our original ideas.

Sound Palette

We put together a selection of songs and sound effects that we feel represent our intended vibe of our film trailer:

Colour Palette

Taking inspiration from Buzzfeed's article titled: 'Can you guess the Disney movie from just the colour scheme?'...

...we decided to create a colour scheme that represents our film.

Films with similar colour palettes include:

'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' which focuses on dark colours, such as blacks, dark blues, browns and dark oranges.

'The Theory of Everything' trailer also involves dark blues and browns, but also has softer orange tones, creating a nostalgic vibe.

9 Key Frame Analysis

500 DAYS OF SUMMER

The trailer for '500 Days of Summer' displays the conventions of a typical romance film:
- character establishment of a girl and a boy
- indication of their relationship through camera shots
- use of upbeat music to show an equilibrium, and then a more downbeat track to upset it
- lack of lighting in love scenes, indication of passion
- shots of the couple in love: running, laughing, holding hands, kissing

OUR TRAILER

Voice Casting: Again

When voice testing people the first time round we were unsure on whether we liked any of the voices of the people we tested and felt like we needed to test a larger group of people, in order to make sure the voice heard in the trailer had the right levels of emotion to make the audience engage with the trailer. 

Voiceover Casting

At the beginning and end of our trailer our main protagonist, Alex, speaks in a voiceover, so therefore we thought we would test out a couple of people to try and get the right voice, as for the rest of the trailer our main actor, Lily, does not speak any dialogue. 

Music for our Film Trailer

Through being inspired by Will Darbyshire's videos we came across the music artist Tom Rosenthal. Tom is an independent music artist who we contacted asking whether we could use a couple of his tracks within our piece as we felt it would add to the style of our piece. Below is the email we sent and his reply including the permission he gave us to use his music: