Started Filming

We started to film our trailer last thursday as we wanted to get as much material to use as possible which would limit our chances of having to refilm parts. We wanted to film the parts of the trailer which shows the two main characters as adults when they have their successful careers and meet once again after being apart for a long time.
This filming we did would be the first thing you would see in our teaser trailer which would show them both as successful and meeting again after being apart for a long time. We wanted to begin the trailer with a shot of him sitting on a chair wearing a shirt and jeans giving him a smart/casual look. We also wanted to give him props such as a cup of coffee and paper in front of him which would show him as a journalist and are typical materials used to show this proffesion. We wanted it to be a quick shot of him as in previous research into teaser trailers the shots are quick and fast and add to the atmosphere. We wanted him to look like he is waiting for someone who he is interviewing which turns out to be Mercedes who is a high flying actress.
The next part we filmed was the entrance of Mercedes the glamorous, high flying actress who he used to like back in school, when he was the geek and she was the popular girl. We dressed her in leggings, heels, long shirt and cardigan with curly hair, as we wanted to show her as a glamorous girl but also not dressed to formal.We didnt want a straight shot of her walking in and the audience being able to notice who it is, so we started at her feet just seeing her heels as she was walking in, then it pans up her body so you can see her. We decided to show the leading girl character in this way as it was different and didnt give away her character, image and career straight away and will hopefully keep the audience guessing on who she really is. These parts would make up the begginning of the trailer in which it will then cut to click fast clips of how it used to be showing how different it is now.
This will then cut to when they are adult again which is the next bit of filming we did. As we had individually introduced their characters to the audience at the beggining we wanted to show them meeting again at the end. For this we decided to keep it simple by using a hand shake of the too characters, but him showing her to a set but her ignoring this and coming and sitting next to him. We decided to film this as we thought it would show how he wasn't interested in her anymore but her liking him and wanting him. This is where the trailer will end and go into the title. We did filmed these clips many times so that we would a lot of material to use and edit, and also filmed it from different angles so that we have a more varied amount of filming to use.

Our New Magazine Cover

This is our new magazine, we have changed particular aspects of our cover, which we think will look better and fit our genre as a rom-com suitably. As our house style colours is blue and pink which suggests romance and our genre we wanted to carry that throughout our magazine cover and posters. For our original cover we had difficulties doing this as we were using the boy holding a red heart chocolate box although it fitted the image of being romantic when we used our house style colours it clashed with this. This is why we deicded to redesign the picture so it would still suit our genre and not clash with our colour scheme. The reason why we thought this needed to be changed was that when we were reseearching other covers we found that they all had a colour scheme that related to the top film they are publishing. This picture represents romance, and also goes well with the use of colours on our front page. We decided to use a variety of pinks and blues so it would make it look more unique and less of the same. We used the colours on particular words that we wanted to be bold and stand out such as the actors names 'Alex Costello' and 'Mercedes Vano'. We did this so that these are the main features that will hook in the audience. We did use typical conventions of a film magazine such as picture which illustrates the main film that it is representing, the film title in a big font to attract the audience, the exclusive bar we found was used in other magazine covers as it makes that story seem more important and will give the cover more diversity. We found that film magazines don't use too many headlines, and do leave some white space so this is a convention we decided to keep as well.

BillingBlock

For our poster we needed to design our own billingblock. I made our billingblock, using others from other posters as a quideline. I saw on all billingblocks that i researched that they all used a range of heights, boldness to make particular words stand out and spacing. I found that they used different sizes of fonts to make specific parts of the text stand out from others. This is our final billingblock -->

New Storyboard...

During last Fridays lesson when me and Alex were in exams, Rachel and Mercedes designed a new storyboard for our new teaser trailer. We don't need to redo our animatic but we wanted to re-do a new storyboard so that when we go to film we will have a more organised plan and structure to follow, which will help us to get the filming done in a organised and quick manner. This was a problem we had with the filming we had previously done for our other story, in which we didn't have a structure to follow and therefore got of task quickly. The new storyboard shows that there will still be the 3 production companies at the beginning which is still jellyfish productions, Wolff productions and universal. We are still keeping these companies as in many teaser trailers, there are more than one production company shown at the beginning but as not to take up too much time, they are only played for a maximum of 3-4seconds. This will follow with the first scene which is the reporter (Lewis) who is waiting to interview a famous actress which turns out to Mercedes.  This scene will consist of a quick shot of him waiting and then her walking in. A caption will be shown here to illustrate this.We then wanted to zoom into him eyes or use a dissolve which will show he is looking back into his past. Turning out to show how he used to be the geeky, clumsy boy who wasn't good enough for this girl who had an attitude and was a popular girl in the school. We didn't want to give too much away so we are going to use 3 quick clips of him being clumsy and a geek, while showing her ignoring him and almost sniggering at him. A caption will be shown her as if to suggest she wasn't interested in him. These will cut back to his face and then her face, we want her to have a effective expression on her face or maybe sorting out her hair to suggest that now the tables have turned and she likes him instead. This is challenging normal conventions as the boy is normally chasing the girl, as we kept this at the beginning we wanted to give the storyline a slight twist and challenge the conventions with the girl liking the boy instead. We also want to include a soundtrack throughout as this is typically used in rom-com teaser trailers, with not much speech. We wanted a tune which is up beat to hook in the audience but something that suggest love and romance.

Poster Template...

This is a template for our new and improved poster. We are waiting to get a new image to go on the front but using this one at the moment to show how it would be set out. This image already on the poster may stay the same, with the title in the middle and a image showing them as older and her liking hi instead. This is to show how they have changed over time, and to also inhance the romance and comedy element of the poster and film. We will also use a tagline to illastarte the film and this is a convention used in these rom-com posters.

New title

As we have recently changed the narrative of our film and teaser trailer, we also decided to alter the title to make it more fitting for our film and fit the typical Rom-Com genre of film. We decided to change 'Losing' to 'Keeping Faith'. As in our research we found that the would losing is not typical of a rom-com and doesnt suggest what we wanted it too. We have kept the same fonts and colours schemes as pink and blue as they are romantic colours and suggest love between a boy and girl.

We are also keeping the photo on our magazine cover as it still suggests a rom-com and the love between the two young lovers. We will be changing the cover of the poster to something that suggests more of our new story but still attracts the audience in the same way. We are keeping the same layout just using new pictures which we plan to take asap!!

New idea

In recent discussions that our group has had we decided that our main narrative for our film and the teaser trailer which is based around this that we will be creating is too complicated. As our film is a Rom-Com we wanted to portray love and humour at the same time. Our new idea for our film is that when our two main characters (which will stay the same) were younger in school, he was the geeky, clumsy normal guy at school (the same) but she is the girl who doesn't associate with these boys and has an attitude along with a high opinion of everyone (kept the same). In there school days he has a crush on her but she will not give him the time of day, the young boy (Lewis) makes a fool of himself in front of her such as stepping in a puddle, dropping books and walking into doors which makes her embarrassed and therefore she doesn't see him the same way. This relationship that he wanted to happen doesn't. When they leave school and go their separate ways he becomes a star in the acting business while she becomes a journalist. They meet while doing a broadcast at a cinema about his new film and instantly recognise each other, Lewis then thinks of how he used to be and how he is now. She falls for him but he doesn't fall for her as if the tables have turned. We she get the guy in the end????

As we have changed the narrative of the film, we needed to rethink our teaser trailer, as it needs to be short and effective without showing too much of the story as this is what a teaser trailer is used for.
Our new idea is:
She is the journalist filming outside a cinema, meeting the new actor which is Lewis for his new film, not knowing they will meet once again after the drama of their younger years. She starts her broadcast, noticing the new actor in the corner of her eye and realises who it is and he does the same. The expressions on there faces is very important as she needs to look surprised to see how successful he has become and he is just pleased to see her. The camera will zoom in on his eyes and dissolve into his memories of what he was like as a teen such as dropping books, stepping in a puddle and walking into doors. This first scene will be quite short, about 15-20 seconds. The flashback is very fast as we just want to suggest how different he was from what he is like now. We may also add some music in the background, but upbeat as it is a Rom-com and we want to suggest this throughout. In between scenes will also edit in some titles which will illustrate what is happening in the scenes and also to tease the audience to want to watch the film.
I think this new idea will be a lot more modern and have the typical narrative of a Rom-Com as boy and girl fall in love but have that twist which is that he was the geeky, clumsy guy who couldn't get the girl but now he is the star, the girl needs to win his heart. I think this is better than our original idea as the teaser trailer will be a lot shorter and effective, but also doesn't mean we have to change other conventions that we have already decided on. As we have a new narrative for the film this wont effect our filming of the trailer, but give us more guidelines for what will appear in the film, as we don't want to give the whole plot away to the audience.