Planning and Brainstorming for A2 Film Trailer

I’m going to work with Becky ward because she is a reliable person to work with and I have been completing media work with her since year 10 of high school. She also has some really creative ideas. If we encounter a problem then we will overcome it by talking to each other to see what wrong and then sort out the problem as soon as possible. However I doubt there will be any problems.

The genres that we are considering are fantasy or action, we are thinking about doing fantasy because that was our main genre for our last project and it was quite a challenge and managed to tackle it well and have good background knowledge from research that we had to look up from the previous year. Moreover we thought about making action trailer because this would be another challenge which could give ourselves, furthermore this is very different to what other candidates will produce because you would need certain props and a budget. Creating an action trailer will be difficult but we may give it a go.

The main brief conventions of fantasy are mysterious settings, mythical creatures, unique costumes, villainous characters and some fast pace editing. In an action film you are likely to see explosions, natural disasters, fast pace editing, fights, car or running chases and loud sound effects. It will be difficult to accommodate the conventions of an action film because we won’t be able to create explosions or natural disasters, unless we use computer generated motions which is possible but it would still require certain technology which we may have to buy and there isn't a very large budget. The fantasy conventions will be pretty easy to accommodate, apart from having mythical creatures unless they are computer generated, or maybe drawn and then scanned into the computer and the furthermore edited. Apart from this then we can create most of the conventions of a fantasy genre, especially with editing technology nowadays.

We are aiming for our audience to be teenagers just like us; this is because we will be able to relate to what is being shown and if it will catch our audience’s attention. We will create an audience profile with the exact details of what out ideal audience member will be.

Our product will appeal to our audience because we will firstly get a selection of people to view our vanished product to check if anything could be better and what id good about our final piece. We will include colloquial language which the audience can relate to, furthermore because we know it is quite difficult to keep a teenagers attention, Becky and I will have to include some twists but nothing that will give our plot away and sound effects for example a voice over. We will research similar films that are in either the fantasy or action genre to see what they include that appeals to their target audience.