Production: filming reflection

At this point, we have drafted our first rough version of the film trailer that we shot in December using iMovie. Having watched all the footage and put it into a sequential order, we felt that the quality of the shots wasn't of a high enough standard for A level work. The shots that we used didn't portray the feelings we were trying to convey, and the angles were quite basic; something that simplifies the rough version of the trailer. During editing, when we put the clips together we felt that we hadn't thoroughly planned effectively, as the sequence followed a strong linear narrative that explained the plot of the trailer; this meant it didn't follow the conventions of a trailer, and was more of a short film.
In order to achieve the best possible grade we can we have decided that we are going to re-film for our coursework, following a different narrative.

The reason we are going to create a new narrative is because the topic of the original narrative, abuse, is a very sensitive topic that the actors found difficult to portray effectively; we wanted to be as sensitive as we could, but the portrayal didn't convey the difficult situation we had planned for. The scenes we had shot didn't seem genuine enough to be taken seriously, and so we are going to re think and create a completely new narrative that doesn't deal with such a sensitive topic.

To develop a new narrative we are going to discuss new ideas, but still follow a dark romance idea; this is because it allowed us to be creative by subverting the stereotypical conventions of a 'normal' romance film. For the next film trailer, we will ensure that the storyboards we create include a number of clips that excite the audience and build up hype for the film; this is a more conventional stereotype of a trailer, and so will meet the brief of the coursework.