Our initial theme for our film trailer was the ‘Romance’ genre. We discussed the different locations which we could use i.e. London, in order to capture iconic buildings and a more advanced level of scenery and shots. We then considered the different storylines we could use for a typical romantic film, and concluded that we would definitely need a willing female and male to act, which we thought we may find difficult for both reliability and confidence.
After this, we decided to think outside the box, considering the different range of genres which would target different audiences. We concluded that we all shared a similar interest in the ‘Gangster’ genre, which would enable us to all maintain a focus on our task because will be interested. Some of the ideas we began to discuss were titles and posters from existing gangster films. We decided to research further into this as our knowledge was vague, however our decision allowed us to be particularly creative and imaginative with
We took into consideration the main aspects of the genre which would take more thought. We allocated the roles to different members of our group, my particular task was to look at the posters and magazine covers which would provoke thought for the props that we may need to use, the stereotypical costumes, the location, and the different levels of lighting etc. The other members were looking at existing trailers for the particular genre we had chosen in order for us to get an idea of what we would need to include in our own. This was useful to look at the level of official trailers for films which were well known, like 'The Godfather', 'Reservoir Dogs', and 'Snatch'.
