We have been looking into some soundtracks for our trailer. We wanted to use a variety of songs in our trailer to show all the different moments and emotions. We feel like using instrumentals would be best as it wouldn't clash with any dialog in the trailer.
Our first song we liked was Sam Smith Stay With Me. We chose this as it was slow and eases the audience into the scene. We didn't want to overwhelm the audience with a fast or loud song. This version also is an instrumental so when our characters are first interacting they would be able to heard clearly.
The Next song we chose was one from our inspiration film. This song featured in 'Now is good' and is up beat and happy. We wanted this for all our happy scenes which shows our two main characters Hope and Logan sharing beautiful moments together. The song will feature words as we hope to use a montage of clips. This part won't have any dialogue as we want the audience to become invested in the characters. By doing this it will allow them to let their imaginations run wild and create their own dialogue for our characters.
For when the trailer takes a dark turn we wanted once again an instrumental to add a haunting feel to the trailer. This is when Hope starts declining and becomes very ill. The slow dramatic beats in this song will add emotional tones to the trailer. We are hoping to create a sad experience for the audience to truly make them feel as emanational as Hope as she becomes diagnosed with cancer. The song will blend well with the story we are hoping to create. This also fits well with the Drama genre. We looked deep into films with the same concept as and we tried to mirror their use of music.
Our main prop is the dying girls diary. She writes down in her diary everything that happens throughout the film, so it is the most important prop. Her whole life has been written down in her diary, so it really helps to demonstrate what she's been going through. The diary also helps to pull the two main characters together. Logan-the male character-picks up the diary when Hope drops it. He then goes round to her house to return it and asks her out on a date. Therefore the diary plays an important part in starting the romance between Logan and Hope.
Another prop that we are going to use throughout our trailer is Starbucks coffee cups. These will feature in our trailer when the couple are going out on dates. One of their dates will be shot in Starbucks and the coffee cups will be the coffees that they have brought on their date.
We are also going to use one of our main characters - Logan's - car. The car will also feature in the date scenes. We will shoot this from the back seat so we can see that Logan is driving and Hope is in the passenger seat.
An important prop in our trailer is a glass. In the middle of our trailer we will have an over the shoulder shot of Hope filling up a glass of water. The screen will turn black and all you will hear is the glass smash. This will be a symbolic part in our trailer as it will represent the start of Hope becoming ill.
We will also use fake blood throughout our trailer. This will be used as one of the symptoms of Hope's illness. Therefore the blood will represent how ill Hope is becoming.
Lastly, we are going to use real photographs of the couple in our trailer. These will be in photo frames in Hope's room. We will use a panning shot to pan all of the frames in. We think this would be a nice feature to add as it makes the couple seem more realistic.
We chose Cavan as he will be starring with Lauren who plays Hope. Cavan and Lauren are boyfriend and girlfriend in real life so will feel comfortable around each other. We feel that this also helps as they will make the relationship look as natural and real as possible. We think he will fit the male role well as he is attractive and quite muscular so we feel our target audience of teenage girls may swoon over him. Cavan has the right look for our trailer because he is a young teenager and is dressed in typical teenage clothing for a white male which fits the stereotype. Cavan fits the stereotype of a mainstream role of a teenage male in a romance film. For example in films like now is good and the fault in our stars, the male leads are always teenage and muscular.
Lauren Malcolm staring as Hope.
Age 17 years old
Gender: Female
We chose Lauren as she will be staring with her boyfriend Cavan who is playing Logan. We feel Lauren will be good for this part as she is young and pretty therefore we think boys will be attracted to see the film. She's slim and well dressed typically wearing clothes for a normal 17 year old. Lauren fits the typical white girl stereotype for mainstream audiences. For example, the actress Rachel McAdams always stars in mainstream, sad, romantic films and is a typical slim attractive girl. Rachel McAdams has starred in The Vow and The Notebook.
Poppy
Poppy is Hopes dog. She makes an appearance when Hope and Logan are on date talking her for a walk in the park.
Filming Schedule: Before we start filming we wanted to create a filming schedule, this is so we can keep track of what we have filmed and stay on a time schedule meaning we will finish everything all on time. We left spaces in between just in case of errors or if we needed to revisit scenes and re film parts. This is also spaced out carefully for editing purposes as it take some time to put the trailer together. We may change our filming schedule on the way as the taller might go in a new direction however at this point we think its smart to have this a guide line.
(1-3) Here is our storyboard created on Storyboard this. Our general story is a dying girl living the last moments of her life and documenting this into a diary. The trailer starts of with our main character Hope played by Lauren Malcolm sitting in the doctors being told she has a terminal illness and has only 6 months to live. She decides to document her life in a diary hence the name of our trailer Diary of Dying Girl. The following scene is showing Hope waking up in the morning after. A montage shows her in the morning getting ready for the day like nothing has happened. In the third slide it shows Hope bumping into our second main Character Logan played by Cavan Rodgers. This is when the two meet and fall in love.
(4-9) Slide four continues on directly after slide 3 with him running after him to giver her books back however she doesn't hear him. Later on Logan knocks on Hopes door giving her books back to her. He swiftly asks her out on a date to the cinema and Hope agrees. Edited in will be a fading shot of her writing into her diary. Then a montage shows them living moments together for example going to a party and having days out.
(10-15) However as time goes on her condition gets worse and she gets more ill. She starts falling over and coughing blood up. As she's in the bathroom Logan is knocking on the door to se if she's okay when she comes out Hope sits Logan down to tell him her condition (indecisive).
1. Which of the four quadrant(s) would your film appeal to?
There are different quadrants that films can fall under, these are: Older males (>25)Older females (>25)Younger males (<25)Younger females (<25) We definitely think that our film would appeal mostly to the quadrant of younger females (<25). This is because of the genre and the type of trailer we are planning to make. Due to wanting to make a drama and romance trailer we think that females would be more drawn to this. This is because it will be more of a feminine and emotional film which stereotypically young females enjoy watching. Our main character will be a teenage girl, this also links to our chosen quadrant of younger females because they may be more interested in the film as they can relate to her. Seeing as our trailer will be based on how the young girl is suffering with the fact she has cancer it might be too much of a sad subject for really young females to watch, so our trailer will be aimed at older teenagers and young adults.
2. What is the target audience for the films you looked at when looking at Influences?
The Fault in Our Stars The fault in our stars would appeal to a certain demographic. The ages that this film would appeal to would be younger females. This is because girls stereotypically enjoy romance films because they are more feminine. We got this chart from IMBD and it shows the ratings that the different ages of people gave the film. From the chart we can see that we were right in thinking that this film appeals to younger teenage girls the most. However we were quite surprised at how many men rated the film. The age of men that most liked the film were also young teenagers under 18. This has made us think that we should try and make our trailer appeal to teenage boys as well as girls.
The Notebook
The Notebook will most likely appeal for younger females. We feel this because it is a very emotional film that will touch females more so than men due to the romance. From the chart we can see that the highest rating was females under 18, this is the age range that we thought it would be. We were also intrigued at the fact that quite a lot of older females enjoyed the film too. We though it would most appeal to teenage girls but from the chart we can see that the film had high ratings from females aged 30-44 and females aged 45+. Also the most amount of votes came from men and woman aged 18-29, again this has made us feel that our trailer should appeal to both gender of younger adults.
Now is Good
Now is Good will also be suited to the target market of younger females. This is again due the romance genre and could also be that this film is set from a teenage girls point of view. The chart shows the highest rating for females under 18. This is the age range that we thought this film would appeal to the most.The rating for males under 18 was also quite high as well.This had made us think about trying to make our trailer appeal to young boys as well as young girls.This would help our viewings by appealing to a wider range of teenagers.
3. Are there any other audience groups that your film may appeal to?
4. What other 'niche' factors could be considered about how you might appeal to an audience?
5. What different 'tribes' of youth may be especially interested in your film?
6. Would your film be limited to a UK audience or might it have a global appeal?
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