Filming Evaluation..

We used a lot different people for our film trailer, and this was a major set back for us as they weren't very reliable. The main disadvantage to us was finding a main male lead character, people kept letting us down or weren't available for filming when we could. Firstly we filmed the beginning shot of the different boys, this was the easiest part as we just grabbed boys from around the school and filmed them. We then filmed our main female character's solo scene as she is played by a member of the group. We also filmed scenes between her and a friend to try and explain the narrative a bit better in the trailer but then decided against this idea as dialogue doesn't play a huge part in teaser trailers. Further on in the week our male character was able to film, we chose to constantly film the two characters in case we caught a spontaneous cute moment between the two of them. This worked to our advantage as they forgot that we were filming them and was less uptight about the situation. Considering they aren't romantically involved in real life, they worked professionally together and produced good material for us to use in our trailer. Luckily the actors were wearing several layers of clothing and was able to swap and change between shots to give the effect that the scenes were filmed on different days of their relationship. After  we uploaded all of our footage onto the laptop, we figured that we didn't have enough shots of the boys at the beginning to portray our story and therefore went on the search to film more. We kept to many Rom-Com conventions in our trailer, for example, we decided to keep our main characters young and attractive to attract our target audience. We also decided to keep the conventional deep voice over on the teaser trailer, this explains our story line without giving away too much in the filming. We browsed for days to choose our background music for our trailer, we finally found an un-copyrighted website where we could download songs for free, we chose a song called Hold On, which sits comfortably with the Rom-Com feel as it is soft and gives off a happy vibe.