Evaluation of filming

We filmed our teaser trailer in stages mainly because we were reliant on other people and this meant we had to work with them and when they were available to film. Firstly we filmed a few shots of the boys we have at the beginning of our teaser trailer as they were quick and easy for us to find and film. We then filmed the scenes with our main female character in as she is played by a member of our group. We also filmed a scene between our main female character and her friend to try and explain our narrative to the audience, however when we actually put it into the teaser trailer we felt it didn’t work in the way we wanted it to. Also when we referred back to our teaser trailer research we found that there is not very often any dialogue or explanation of the narrative, this is more conventional of an actual trailer compared to a teaser trailer.  Later on that week our main male character was available to film so we were able to go to the locations where we wished to film the scenes between the two of them. Although we filmed all of the scenes of them together on one day they had a change of clothes so we were able to make our film look more realistic and as if it had been filmed over several days or weeks. Once we had uploaded all the footage to the laptop we found that we didn’t have enough shots of different boys at the beginning of the teaser trailer so we had to go out and film some more to get our idea across.

For our film we have kept a lot of the conventions of a ROM-COM within a modern society. For example our female character is independent and won’t just settle for anything despite wanting a traditional relationship. We also kept our main characters young and good looking as this is what is generally seen in a ROM-COM and it is what audiences expect. Another convention is that of a voice over in the teaser trailer which is expected in ROM-COM teaser trailers more than any other genre. The music in the background of the teaser trailer is another way of maintaining the ROM-COM conventions. Typically pop music or upbeat music is used as background music to suggest the fun and happy narrative that is linked to romantic comedies and we have used such music so our audience automatically know the genre of our film.