For our film trailer we had many ideas that came to mind in the genre type and narrative. Originally we wanted to do as Rom Com as it will be interesting to create and different from last years 2 minute opening of a horror genre, so we decided by doing a Rom Com it will vary our ideas and skills.
Firstly we researched in depth into famous Rom Com trailers and watched a variety of them such as The Proposal, The Ugly Truth, Along Came Polly and many more. By watching these trailers we started to figure out the main conventions of a Rom Com trailer and saw a colour scheme in each trailer and red and white is the most common. However we soon discussed that a Rom Com was not such a good genre idea, as we believe the comedy side will be hard to script and live up to the standard of other films, so we chose to base our trailer on a Romantic Genre.
Although we had now chose the genre of our film we needed to decide on a storyline, we brainstormed using PowerPoint to write down several of our ideas. We came up with many but had to pick one. Most Romantic films have a twist in the storyline and the characters aren’t always in love for the whole film this helped us to choose our storyline. In the end we went with the narrative of two loved up people and the man goes to prison, he then comes out a few months later and see’s her with someone else. This way the trailer will not give away the ending of the film and will leave it on a cliffhanger. I believe that our narrative matches the common conventions of a romantic film. Our inspiration for our storyline came from the film “Like Crazy” this is a new romantic film out that we watched the trailer for many times and it gave us ideas and inspiration.
We then had to make a decision and create a title for our film, we found this the hardest part as there were so many we could use. We decided that we wanted our title to be a pun; this made it harder to come up with ideas. We also wanted the title to represent prison or jail to show the narrative more clearly but we didn’t want to give it away and still needed to link it to a Romance. In the end we came up with a clever idea using the word “intimate” as the “t” and the “I” will be behind prison bars and the word will also spell “in-mate” that is another word for someone in prison. We thought this idea worked well and it was the best out of the others that we had.
After researching more into Romance film trailers we discovered that some would use a voice over to help show the storyline we chose as a group that we like that idea and we watched Rihanna music video to “we found love”. At the beginning of the video there is a short length voice over, it was about love and we thought that we could use some of the lines, as they were very effective. This voice over was:
It’s like your screaming and no one can hear, you almost feel ashamed, that someone can be that important that without them you feel like nothing no one will ever understand how much it hurts. You feel hopeless like nothing can save you then when its over and its gone you almost wish you could have all that bad stuff back so you could have the good”
Even though we thought this quote was good we looked up various love quotes and the definition of love on the urban dictionary to widen our ideas as we may want to use parts from both.
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