For the romantic comedy trailer, I looked at many different trailers and also researched about them on the internet. The main conventions of any trailers are as follows
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For the romantic comedy trailer, I looked at many different trailers and also researched about them on the internet. The main conventions of any trailers are as follows: A green band is an all-green graphic at the beginning of the trailer. Usually studio logos are featured near the beginning of the trailer. Many trailers have a three act structure. The beginning lays out the story. The middle usually has a climax. Last act has signature music. This also includes powerful and emotional moments. Voice-over who tells the main points of the film. This is useful to enhance the audience understanding. A cast run is a list of the stars that appear in the movie. Most trailers conclude with a billing block, which is a list of the principal cast and crew. During watching different trailers we looked at the angles and shots that were used. We also looked at the type of conventions used in a RomCom which are things like slap stick which is basically people making fools of them selves, My Best Friends Wedding used slap stick comedy when she feel off the bed. Another convention was a black screen which contains white writing clips. Trailers are usually short and snappy this is so you can remember it and it empathizes the reason also is that they take out the main contents. This will hook the audience in to want to come watch it. Our target audience is teenagers because pf the slapstick and comedy side makes it less likely to have any sexual scenes. One of our group member decided to call it ‘You win some You lose some’ this was good because it incorporates our idea of losing love. Our 5 actors have very different personalities but are very imaginative which is good because then you can play off different things for each one. We all had different roles and mine is to be editor. The storyline was very good and it worked well with the brief. Pamela came up with a very good idea that there would be a good scene that when on the picnic date. We had some ups and downs during our planning process which was all resolved in the end. The reason we had some disagreements is because we were not really listening to each others ideas and everyone kept trying to talk at once which did not really help. In the end we came to agreement which was helpful because our storyboard looks great.
