Types Of Film Trailers

There are 5 different types of film trailers

Theatrical Trailer

• Maximum length of two and a half minutes
• Usually cut form the first cut of the picture  
• can be cut form all the shot footage if there is no first cut yet 

Teaser Trailer 

• Usually not longer than a minute and a half

• Cut from a few takes and scenes from the picture

TV Spot

• 15,30 or 60 seconds in length
• Usually don't have much to do with the theatrical trailer
• Produced separately from the theatrical campaign 
• Usually use different music from the theatrical trailer 

DVD Trailer

• Usually the same as the regular theatrical trailer, but may contain alternate or rejected scenes

Internet Trailer

• Produced exclusively for the internet 
• May contain music or footage that doesn't appear in the theatrical trailer

Production Company Name

After a lot of discussing and arguing we have finally decided on a name for our production company
the name we have chosen is 'Loving Sign Films'. We chose this name as we thought it would be nice to have an original and unique name, as we thought it could attract some more viewers to our film.

The name for our trailer is still up for debate. we are now handing out surveys to find out what name would best fit our film.

Considerations

We have to consider a lot of things before we start production.

1) our production name
2) our film name
3) soundtrack
we have to make sure that all music we use is copyright free as to prevent legal actions. Last year we used the website http://freeplaymusic.com/. As this is a website we have used before we will be using it again this year. The website is a copyright free so all the music on this website we can use without worry of copyright.

Name

We have been discussing the name of our film, unfortunately we can't agree on one that we both like. I am thinking of doing a survey on which name people like, and we will give it to our target audience (teenage females) to see what film they would prefer to watch.

We also can't think of a name for our production company as most names we have made up are already in use. this has made it difficult for us to think of a name that we can use that is original

Title Ideas

Above is a mind mad that we created while we were thinking of a name for our film.

Audience Profile

Our audience will change from last year as we did a horror film. and since romantic films are more targeted for a different audience. Our audience this year will be more aimed at females aged 15-24.

Personally I don't want the film to be aimed at 15 as I think that it would turn into a different genera that I have in mind as a 15 year old would have different preferences to a 18-20 year old and i would also have to make sure the film is appropriate to the age group,this would limit our film and censor some of the content.
That in mind we have decided to aim for a late teen audience. We will also think about adding content that will suit other audience (i.e male, people that don't like romance but like drama)

Bellow is an example of our target audience.

Our Film Genre

Because last year we did not get very high marks we have decided to change our film genre, we looked at the website http://visual.ly/complete-list-film-sub-genres so see what type of film we would like to do.
Last year we created a horror, over all the filming was good but we have decided to go in a different direction this year by looking at the website we have decided to do a romantic drama. This might bee difficult for us as we have never attempted to do a romantic movie, fortunately I am a big fan of romantic movies, books and other media, so I will be should be able to understand a little of what the audience wants in a film.

Romantic drama- a drama which focuses on the elements of romantic love between two protagonists. These films usually have happy ending, or at lest bittersweet endings. Often tearjerkers and more popular with women. These films can be linked to other genres, such as romantic comedies, or rom-coms, which still have the element of drama but not as strongly as just a romance.

PLANNING AND BRAINSTORMING

Who are you working with?

I Will be working with Flavio Alves on this project because last year we worked together to create our film opining and we found it easy to work with each other. Last year we did find some difficulty working together in a group, for example if one of us was absent the other would find it difficult to find the work the other person was doing and so work would be put on hiatus until they found it. This could be fixed easily with better communication.

Who I Will Be Working With?

I will be working with Flavio Alves again for this project. The reason behind this is because we worked well last year during our AS course.

Welcom

Hello and welcome to my A2 Media Studies  blog. In this blog I will be explaining what i am doing for my media project and how I got there. The task will be a long a difficult one but luckily I am not alone as I will be accompanied by my partner Flavio Alves. We will be crating a film trailer together, hopefully we can make it to the end without killing each other. Thank you for giving up your time to read through my blog.