Settings for our trailer

Here we have some pictures of some of the different places we hope to film in when filming our film trailer:

Adapting to a team member leaving

Just as we were about to get to the stage where we could start filming, Josh, one of our group of 3, drops the subject, leaving just me and Jak. He had briefly mentioned that he was considering it the previous week, but i hadn't thought he'd go through with it so soon.When i found this out, it did quite annoy me as he'd given us hardly any warning, he had said that he was going to get hold of the camera we were going to use do that we could have effects such as pull focus, so we would have to find another camera, or use one of the schools ones. We had recently changed the production company logo so that it was a combination of our three names, so that will have to be changed again.

Title design for our trailer

For the design of the title for our trailer, we knew that we wanted something that looked handwritten, so using Photoshop, Jak created multiple ideas for the title:
















A poll was then created on a website called strawpoll.com, and then the three of us and some friends voted on which one we liked best:

Target Audience and USP

The target audience for our film trailer is young adults and people in their late teens. We chose this demographic because people of this age are the people who stereo-typically enjoy thrillers the most. We will also probably aim more at the male audience as again, they are stereotyped as liking this type of film more than females.

The Unique selling point (USP) of our film is that from the point that the montage starts, there will be a lot of tension, the audience will be aware that someone dies from the news report at the start, but they don't know who, as multiple people disappear throughout during the trailer, so they will be trying to figure that out, and when they find out that only one person was the killers target, they suspicion will only heighten.

Titles and Information

At the end of our trailer, we are going to need to put the title of our film, and information about it.

Here is a list of all the information that we are going to need to put in our trailer:

• Title - Sharpie (written in the font 'Biro') These are some of the ideas for how it could be written on screen:
  
• Approximate release date
• Names of the main cast members
• Production company name and logo (this will probably be the only one at the start)
• 'From the creators of:'

Script and Storyboard for trailer

Here is the story board we used for the filming of our film trailer:

And here is the script that we used:

This may not be a finished script, but it is our initial draft for it. Changes may be made to it as production of our film trailer goes along.

Costumes and Props

For the costumes, there wasn't much that needed deciding. We are going to have our four protagonists wearing casual wear, as they would just be on a night out at first. The antagonist, sharpie, is going to be wearing all black. I am playing Sharpie, and I will be wearing black skinny jeans, a black t-shirt, an unzipped black hoodie with the hood up, black gloves, black shoes and socks, and have a black mask on so that my face is obscured. I already own all of these items of clothing except for a black mask, which i'm hoping i can make, or borrow from the school drama department, although if i do have to buy one, i doubt it will be that expensive.

For our film trailer we don't think that we're going to need many props. We are going to need weapons for the antagonist to hold, and for these we are going to use a large kitchen knife and an axe. We are also at one point going to have two of the people check their phones, so obviously phones are another prop that we're going to need, we are also going to need to make it look like they are drinking alcohol during the pub scene, so we will use glasses that alcohol would usually be served in, and put non alcoholic drinks in them.