Ideas

'Unlucky Lover'

We originally came up with a storyboard for our chick flick called 'unlucky lover'. This was to be based on a girl who in the conventions of other chick flicks we found went from being unlucky and clumsy, to popular while gaining a love interest along the way. After creating a script, storyboard, music ideas and other effects for this we decided that this wasn't the best we could do. We began filming and making this film on the apple mac's using a split screening technique that we taught ourselves to do, after this shot was done we decided to experiment with different ideas and so our final idea emerged. 

The storyboard for 'Unlucky Lover' -Idea 1

After we began filming these screen shots we decided that the idea would be very difficult to create with it probably ending up being a 'B movie' quality trailer at the end.

Music ideas 

For the soundtrack for our trailer we looked into music which is used in chick flick trailers and the conventions of these. Most commonly used were love songs sang by females with a change in music to loud, upbeat music, again most commonly sang by a female artist. We planned on having changes in music throughout this trailer, with the list being the following:-

• Miley Cyrus - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
• Aly and AJ - Walking on Sunshine
• Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
• Spice Girls - Wannabe
• Kesha - My First Kiss
• Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
• Simple Plan - Vacation
• Kaci - I Will Learn To Love Again

These songs were all sung by females except for Simple Plan but we decided the scene this was in would be with attitude and while dancing so the correct emotion would be felt by the audience while watching.

Also for our first idea 'Unlucky Lover' we also created a script that would be used as both digetic and non digetic sound, the main female would also act as a voice over as she would explain what was happening, but in short terms leading the audience to have questions making them want to go watch the trailer.

Why we changed our first idea

After re-thinking our storyboards after filming the split screen we decided that what we were trying to achieve was not so much of a teaser trailer but an official theatrical trailer. Therefore by continuing to do this plan we would not be meeting our targets and aims of the project.

Our new film trailer was to be called 'Opposites Attract', however later on in the project we thought that this title didn't have the correct connotation so we changed it to 'Parallel Worlds'. This trailer was to be more simplistic and hopefully more effective than 'Unlucky Lover', our idea for this was more controversial leaving the audience with more want to go and see this film as it is not to be explained in the trailer, leaving more questions needing to be answered. In this trailer we used more media ideas such as juxtaposition of the mirrors with the parallel actions of each character thus the idea we had of calling it 'Parallel Worlds'. 

STORYBOARD FOR 'PARALLEL WORLDS'

Our ideas, thoughts and changes for 'Parallel Worlds'

Music

From our previous ideas of having a variety of tracks played throughout, we decided to cut it down to two songs which were:

Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend 

The Veronicas - Forever

We played around with the fading in and out of each track at what we thought was the appropriate scene for this catalyst of change. However because we didn't think the two songs worked in synchronisation with our film trailer we decided to cut out 'The Veronicas- Forever'. Our reasons for doing this was because we felt that 'Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend' had much more attitude and a good tempo which would give the correct connotation that we wanted our trailer to create within the chick flick genre. By fading the song at the end this we felt ended the trailer well. We adjusted the synchronisation of the trailer so that this would be effective as we managed to make the correct timings of each shot to end on the chorus of the song. 

Filming and Editing

From this storyboard we began filming. Once we had gathered all of our footage we began editing, this is where some of our ideas changed to make the conventions of our film trailer more effective. We uploaded all of our footage onto the apple mac and selected the specific scenes which we thought went well, this meant extinguishing some footage. Now that we had the specific footage that we needed we started adjusting the lighting and following our new storyboard with comedy and final editing decisions with a better structure. 

FINAL STORYBOARD 

For our film trailer we decided what would be happening individually in each shot. For the first shot, we decided to take our split screen skills we taught ourselves and film some nail varnish dripping with the nail varnish being a hot pink to keep the continuity throughout our three artifacts. We then decided to add in the characters immediately so the audience would know they're important to the film. As the characters are 'gorgeous girl' and 'geeky girl' we then decided that each of these should have their own individual shot within the split screen; this shot was to be of the gorgeous girl being graceful and draping her dressing gown off her shoulders. The geeky girl would be doing the same while getting ready, to help create the parallel along with the title. She would then pull her knickers out of her bottom, to create a comedy effect.

We then decided that the shots should all show the parallel, yet opposite between the two characters. So in the next shot would be a text shot reading 'What if two worlds collide?'  This could symbolise that the worlds were to meet within the film and the word collide could suggest that the girls would meet in the film somewhere.

The third camera shot was to be of the geeky girl getting ready in the mirror, following from a mosaic transition. To create this effect we would use the camera as the mirror and did this throughout the trailer. To give the audience a sense of geekyness, we made the geeky girl have hair removal cream on where a moustache would be and had her squeezing a spot on her face with a bloody tissue. We would then have her picking up the spot cream at the end of the shot so that people would then gather from the information provided, which shows that this girl isn't the most naturally attractive and needs attention to her appearance in the form of spot cream in the film. Her facial expression throughout this shot would change from concentrating while applying the hair removal cream to her upper lip, to her looking disgusted at her bleeding spot she has just squeezed. This whole shot was to represent geekyness.

The fourth camera shot was to follow from a transition of fade to white into another text shot. The text read 'if geek world meets chique world...' this was to follow the narrative from the previous text shot of 'what if two worlds collide...' this would engage the audience to watch our film while providing a narrative. 

The fifth shot was followed from a mosaic transition again, this time onto the gorgeous girl. The shot would be the same shot as the third shot of the geeky girl, as to show the parallel between the two. The gorgeous girl was to then pick up the bottle of perfume and sprays that and then applies make up, this would be blusher followed by lip-gloss. These objects are more glamorous and conventions of a chick flick while we were doing our research. The gorgeous girl was to be posing more in the mirror as to show to the audience her vanity. This would show the opposite between gorgeous world and geeky world. 

The sixth shot was of the gorgeous girl's right hand panning the camera from left to right along the arm. On the gorgeous girls arm was to be expensive glamorous jewellery, which again we found in our research into conventions. The gorgeous girl would then be holding a champagne glass to connote the expense of her lifestyle. This shot is combined with shot number seven as the camera goes into a cross zoom transition from the gorgeous girls champagne glass onto the left arm of the geeky girl. The glass is to transform there into an orange juice carton that the geeky girl is holding to show the representation of plainness within the geeky girl. The arms are used to show the parallel between the two girls even though the audience is shown the opposites with the use of the positioning and the transitions. 

The seventh shot goes into a cube transition where the audience is now introduced into the potential love interest within the characters in the eighth shot. We decided the lighting in this scene would be bright and not too clear so that the audience wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two characters to show that the characters are not too different and that they do lead similar lives. The brightness was to show the simplicity and innocence that could be within each character. Within the shot we then decided to have a door with the potential love interest knocking at it and then with the gorgeous girl she would walk out, click her fingers and him, and he would go and pick up her bag. This was to show that this character is bossy and dominating within the film. 

The ninth shot follows from this shot through a mosaic transition into the same shot but with a different door and the geeky girl walking out. The aim of this shot was to create the continuity of the parallel throughout the trailer with the geeky girl having the same boyfriend as the gorgeous girl. This also ties in with the text of 'what if two worlds collide?'

The tenth shot is following a fade to white transition where the gorgeous and geeky girl, in sync walks out of some toilet cubicles. The geeky girl then falls over, to show her clumsiness. The lighting in this shot was bright, to show daylight to show this could be the school day. The geeky girl was dressed with her hair tied back, glasses on and in a dress with ice creams on it. This was planned so that she would have the cute, naive in her dress sense but her not bothered about appearance with her hairstyle. In comparison with the gorgeous girl who was wearing her hair down in a glamorous style and a red belt which could suggest her being a seductive, powerful character with the love interest. This shot then goes into a mosaic transition into the next shot.

The eleventh shot is of a sink with the gorgeous girl and geeky girl washing their hands. The camera pans around the shot beginning at the gorgeous girls hands. The gorgeous girl has nicely done nails to again represent her elegant ways as a person; this nail varnish was in a purple colour to go with the conventions of a chick flick genre, as found within our research. The camera was then to pan to the geeky girl's hand which would have black chipped nail varnish to show her lack of interest in her appearance, keeping to the continuity of her appearance always being like that. On her hand she has written 'Return library book', this is because the library while in high school is considered a 'geeky' place to go, and the fact that she reads adds to this theory for geeks. She also has a hair bobble on her wrist, and even though her hair is tied up this shows that she is prepared and also shows the follow through of the shot of the two arms with the geek wearing a hair bobble on her wrist.

We decided on a fade to black transition to go into the twelfth shot of the text which reads 'If the dope and the diva duel?' we decided on this because of alliteration with the three letters beginning with 'D' which quickens the overall pace of the footage, in addition of us fast forwarding all the footage in the trailer. Following this in the thirteenth shot this text is represented with the characters, it is in black and white to show imagination within the geeky character. We sped this footage up as the geek would grab the gorgeous girl's hair as if to duel. The next shot, number fourteen is followed from a long cross zoom as the colour returns to the scene. The girls do the same as the previous shot but it shows the reality of what happened as the gorgeous girl looks the geeky girl up and down and sorts out her appearance. Her facial expression shows that she is finding the geeky girl annoying. The geeky girl then looks at the mirror with a confused expression on her face as if to be saying 'What's the matter with me?'  We used the use of the mirrors in this shot as we had been using previously the camera as a mirror to show that this was combining of the two characters and their 'mirrors'.

Finally the shot goes to the title 'Parallel Worlds'. We decided on a text image that would have both the words meeting in the middle, in a parallel way. The word 'Parallel' is in a white, more plain text but also the text used in magazines such as vogue, which creates irony. The colour white is also plain and less girly than the word 'Worlds' which is in a curly, stereotyped girly font as we found in our research and in a hot pink as used at the beginning of the trailer which creates a pivotal point as the trailer starts with the pink and ends with the pink. The title then cuts and goes into the 'coming soon' text which is the same text as has been used throughout the trailer apart from the title. We chose this text because it shows glamour and a spotlight as if the girls were always in lust of the spotlight being on them. The music that has been playing throughout the trailer, 'Avril lavigne- Girlfriend' is then to fade out in sync with the footage. 

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