Captions and voice over

Along with the soundtrack we also decided to use a voiceover. We have a total of 3 captions in our teaser trailer, and the title at the end. We decided to set our teaser trailer out in this way, as our research into teaser trailers suggested to use that this is a typical way that these a presented. A convention was the use of captions and a voice over. The captions that we decided on were -->

• The years have gone by: This is the first caption which is situated inbetween the first adult scenes, and him falling over in front of the girl he likes. We wanted to use a caption that would simply show that ime has past and this is now in their school days. We used a white background with pink and blue writing as this fits in with the house style of our poster, and represents the genre as rom-com.
• He loves her, she loves him not: This was also used in our poster and links them all together. This caption is to illustrate how he loved her and she doesn't return this love. It is also a play on words, and adds to the comedy part of the trailer.
• What goes around comes around: We decided to use this phrase in a teaser trailer as it is a popular phrase used in rom-coms. We wanted it to show, that he loved her and now she loves him.So basically what goes around comes around, instead of him now wanting her it is the opposite way round.

To go along with the captions we decided to have a voice over in the background playing over the soundtrack. We decided to use this as in many other teaser trailers that we looked at there was either a soundrack or both a soundtrack and voice over. We thought this was a convention that fitted well with our genre and target audience. Once we edited it and added it to our teaser trailer, we gained feedback from our target audience in which they suggested that the voice over made the teaser trailer more conventional. It also illustarted what the trailer was trying to portray.
The one thing that is currently missing from our teaser trailer, is the production company at the begginning.We had originally decided to use our own companies that we made in our A2 media course. After putting it all together as a group we decided that it portrayed a horror/thriller genre which is not what ours is. We did some research into production companies and found that we could either use Universal which is a very popular company which has produced Leap Year, Definietly Maybe and Because I Said So. We could also use Columbia which has produced some famous rom-coms such as 50 First Dates.