Beginning of Editing

In the past few weeks of our media lessons, we have begun to film and then edit our footage for our teaser trailer. During after school hours, Mercedes and Hayley filmed the opening and closing scenes to our trailer. These were shot in the school diner, in the seating area. We chose to film these particular scenes in this location because we firstly thought that it was an easy area for us to all get to. The dining area has leather chairs and coffee tables, making it look a lot like a modern cafe. We felt that this look was appropriate for our opening and closing scenes because these were the ones of the couple in their older years, when they were being re-united at the interview. We thought that a cafe would be an appropriate place for a formal interview between a journalist and an actress.

The trailer opens with our male journalist sitting at a table stirring his drink. He then looks up to see the actress enter. We used a mid-shot for this, as we thought that it would help to set the scene. We then cut to a close up shot of Mercedes walking into the dining area, starting at her feet and panning up to her face and zooming out as she gets closer. We felt that this was a good shot to use, as this kept a sense of mystery about the character. Next we move on to the journalist greeting the actress. They shake hands, and he shows her to a seat opposite him, but she chooses the one next to him. We used this scenario to introduce a comical element to our teaser trailer, and to also show the type of relationship between the two characters. This was filmed using a mid-shot, in order to fit in all of the characters actions. Between the scenes we have captions come up on screen. These say things which describe what is happening, but don't give away what happens in the film. For example, the first caption, just after the two characters are re-united is something along the lines of 'it's been years...' This explains to the audience that the two characters are being re-united after a long time. This then leads smoothly into the flashback of their childhood.

On Thursday we will be taking the younger set of photos so that they can be edited over the holidays and our poster will be completed by the time we're back at school, and we can then finish filming. We need to film the younger scenes of our male and female character, when they were both at school and then the male was the stereotypical clumsy boy chasing the popular girl.
We also need to organise a soundtrack for our trailer, which we are finding difficult because of copyright issues.

Magazine Cover

This is a preview of our final copy of our magazine cover. As we had to change who were acting in our teaser trailer, we had to change the images that we were using for our poster and our magazine cover.
The audience for our magazine is the same as the audience for our film, the photo of the smiling couple would invite readers to the magazine as they seem friendly and happy. The colour scheme of pinks and blues are generically used in romantic comedy films and we thus decided to continue this stereotype with our cover. This way, the audience know what to expect from our magazine, and it relates well to our film.
Because we created our own magazine from scratch, this meant that we were able to design everything ourselves and use our own ideas, instead of using the basis of an existing magazine such as TOTAL FILM.

Poster Template

This is the template for out poster. We are waiting to get new image to match the storyline.
The title on this template is the one which we will be using for our actual poster. We will be having a tag line under the title to draw the viewers in, which has to be short and catchy.
The top image will be one of the couple when they are younger, when they boy is chasing the girl. the second image, under the title, will be a photo of when our couple are older and the tables have turned, with the girl chasing the boy. Under this umage we will have the billingblock and then the date of release.

New Title

This is what our new title font will look like,
It is in the same font as our previous title, and will not effect our previous work much. We are planning to change the colour of the font, to a generic colour used in romantic comedy films, like red, pink, or blue.

Change Of Plans

Over the past few days, our group has decided to change our ideas for our teaser trailer.
We started filming Thursday last week, and began editing the following day. We were finding the current direction it was taking difficult to manage and keep simple.
We have changed the story line to:
A teenage boy and girl, the boy is clumsy and has feelings for the popular girl which are not returned. In the present, he is a journalist, and she is a well known actress. They are reunited, and she falls for him, but this time, her feelings are the ones which are not returned.
We have designed a rough storyboard, which we will be drawing up in neat soon & then uploading to our blogs.
We are going to use the same photo for our magazine, but we are planning to take more photos of Thursday to fit the storyline better.
We will start filming asap, the locations needed for our film are now in school, meaning it will be easier.
The title of our film is being changed to 'Keeping Faith', we will still be using the same fonts as before, we will just be changing the 'Losing' to 'Keeping'.

Font Research Results Continued

After researching what fonts we thought would be most suitable for use as our film title, we took the selection around our class and asked them to chose which fonts they preffered. We asked a total of 20 people, and this is the graph which shows our results.

From this graph we can see that the first font for 'Losing' and the fourth font for 'Faith' are the most popular between the people that we asked during our survey. As a result, we will be using these fonts for our film title, which will be featured on our magazine cover and our film poster.

When asking people to chose a font for our title we had to make sure that they were bearing in mind that they were going to be used together, and thus had to work in this way. I think that these two fonts work well because they are a similar style. The scruffyness of the font looks like handwriting or doodles, and this mirrors the age of the main characters. The heart used to dot the i in 'faith' also hints at the romantic comedy genre of the film.



Font Research Continued

After collecting the results of our survey on our magazine title, we then decided to do the same process with our film title. We had already decided that both words, 'losing' and 'faith' would have different fonts - similar to the style used in 'He's Just Not That Into You'. The word 'losing' we decided would be in a scruffy, untidy font, this would relate to the clumsy persona of our male main character. We felt that the word 'faith' should be in italics, this softer use of font would emphasise the genre of romantic comedy.

 

Next lesson we will carry out the survey and act on the results, applying them to our magazine cover and poster.