Trailer

we made this trailer using iMovie. This will go on our DVD Extras, and is a preview to the final, finished version of our film.
The trailer follows the conventions of a real movie trailer, by using music that fits in with our drama, titles, different shot lengths, shot sizes, a release date, the actors names, the directors, and also the roles of everyone else in the film's production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwLGxNLo55s



Another convention with this trailer is that we created our own distributor, 'Fine Art Films', parodying Paramount Pictures.

The Poster

Instead of typing out the title and other information of text on on our film poster, we decided to write it all up on the board, so that is was similar to the Dogme 95 rule. Dogme is amovement, set up by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, whose goal is to instill a sense of simplicity into filmmaking. This was done by using hand-held cameras, an easy location, no music, no titles made on the computer, no lighting and no fancy costumes.

Here you can see the different stages of making our poster:

1) We first did a rough version of what the poster would look like

2) We then shot a photo of Ryan standing in front of the whiteboard, with draft words around him

3) Using photo shop, we cut around Ryan's body so that he could be put onto another/different background

4) This is a second version of our poster. It was made using Photoshop, and apply texts onto the picture.

5) Instead, we decided to write everything onto the whiteboard.
6) This meant that we could then place the cut out Ryan onto the new background, and our poster would be complete.

Magazine Article

We made our magazine article by using Adobe InDesign. We were able to add screenshots from our film, type our own text, and arrange it to how a professional magazine would look.

Audience Feed Back

Claudia Humphreys, 17
"The film was very entertaining to watch, and it is a film that most teenagers would go to see, because they would be able to associate themselves with the characters and the events that occur in the film."

Petros Poyiatgi, 17
"I like this film because one of my favourite genres is Teen Drama, which I believe this film fits in nicely. The only criticism I have for it is that one of the scenes (after the two boys hear what the girls says about her ideal man) I thought isn't needed or should be changed to make more obvious to the audience. Other than that, I really enjoyed it and would think it would make a fun feature film."

Ed Bullock, 18
"The film follows the conventions of the genre and the mise en scene is fitting to the style to other§ romantic comedies. The use of editing techniques makes the narrative easy to follow."

Nini Hadjipateras, 17
"The setting of the film, in the school and in friends rooms, really emphasises the conventions of a young, romantic comedy. The editing technique used in the outfits scene is entertaining and the music helps create a climax for the final look."

Charley Lebetkin, 17
"This film follows the conventions of the romantic comedy genre. The editing of this film made is extremely easy to follows the story line. I enjoyed watching the outfits scenes and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the whole film."

George Butterworth, 27
"I enjoyed the film immensely; the comedic scenes work very well, although the dialogue is a little too quiet. The costumes are great, the story moves along at a nice pace, but unfortunately some of the actors rush through their lines a bit which makes it a little confusing in places."

Pre Production Film

For our group, we made a video, talking about the different sheets we have produced, such as the production schedule, characters and their costumes, and we also filmed them talking about the location of the courtyard, classrooms and corridor. Ryan then edited the short clip on iMovie, then uploaded it onto Youtube. Using iMovie, different titles, transitions, and other effects were added. As well as the locations and the printed sheets, music was also added. One of the pieces of music that was put in was composed by Max, and will be used for Charlie's imagination scene, for when he imagins himself leaning in for a kiss with Gabriella. Ryan also added the music which we might use for our montage scene. I have added both songs, so everyone can see which one is better, and which song would fit that part of the film. The music for that part was done by the artist, Shaheen. As well as Max and Shaheen's music, he also added the songs which our group might use for the second last scene, when we see Max preparing Charlie to go up to Gabriella, and Charlie is acting all cool, as well as dressing a bit more cool, unlike his geek outfit. The songs which go into consideration for this scene are by UnkleJam.

This clip shows all of our groups pre-production and organising:

These are the screen shots for when I was editing the short clip in iMovie:

All:
- This screenshot shows all of the iMovie application. You can see the video files at the bottom, and everything around it.


Selected Parts:
- Here, you can see which part of the video file I have used in the video. Where it has an orange line at the bottom, that shows it has been selected, and where there is no orange line, that shot has not been used.


Titles:
- This screenshot shows the options for selecting the titles. In iMovie, there are around 20 titles that you can change and edit.


Editing Titles:
- Once you have selected the title you want, you can then edit the size, colour, font and boldness etc.


Transitions:
- Similarly to the titles, you can choose from a range of pre-loaded transitions.

researching magazine articles

we are researching articles from movie reviews so we are able to construct our own.
This article below is from the empire online film review site.

conventions in reviews:
star rating
a picture
summary plot
quotes
actors reviews

Poster Idea 2

as well as the first poster idea, we also thought that we could have just the one main character, with words written on the board. As well as these describing words shown, there would also be the name of the film and the films director, producer and actors.
Below is a rough preview.