Billing Block

The Billing block is regularly used in both film trailers and film posters, so we plan on using the block in both, at first glance we thought the billing block would be easy to recreate, it wasn’t until it came to making the block we realized just how difficult it actually was, we first needed to decide on a suitable narrow font to use in the billing block, we chose ‘Minion Pro’ we then needed to write out the suitable text found in the billing block being the names of the production companies, the names of the actors, producers, directors, music producers, etc. we had to write all the text in capital letters and change the sizes if the fonts. Bigger font for the names of the actors etc. and smaller for the position, when we had finally completed the billing block it looked really effective and genuine. For the billing block in the actual trailer we also added the logos for the three production companies; ‘Paramount Vantage’, ‘Focus Features’ and our own ‘Attachment Productions’ this was to ensure the audience are aware of the producers of the movie for future reference. 

Music

The music which we would use in our trailer was a huge task to decide on, we wanted a piece of music that conveyed both the positiveness and negativness of the relationship and the narrative of the film trailer, our first choice for song was Jose Vander’s: ‘Metal Detector’ this song worked really well at the beginning of the trailer when the two characters ‘fall in love’, yet didn’t build up enough to portray the climax of the trailer and how things go wrong for the two main characters. This bought us to adding a new song Snow Patrol: ‘Set Fire to the Third Bar’ which was also used in the trailer ‘Dear John’ we though this song worked really effectively for the end part of the film but didn’t flow well with the other songs combined as they contrast massively, we then went on a search for an instrumental song to use at the beginning of the trailer and combine it with ‘set fire to the third bar’ but finally decided that this was to difficult and was too similar to the ‘Dear John Trailer’ in which if we were to really bring out the trailer we would be compared to that film. After all this consideration we finally as a group chose the song ‘Give Me Love’ by Ed Sheeran. 

Ed Sheeran Email:

We were able to use the track ‘Give Me Love’ by Ed Sheeran in our film trailer if we were able to email and ask for permission for the use of it we tracked down Ed Sheeran’s record company; Atlantic Records and then emailed them this:

mike.caren@atlanticrecords.com

Dear Atlantic Records

I am writing on behalf of my A level media group, writing to ask permission to use the track from one of your artist’s to use in our media project, the artist in question is the ‘talented’ Ed Sheeran and his track from his new album + “give me love the deluxe version”. Obviously I am aware that your schedule at Atlantic Records is very busy and therefore if you are unable to reply we will assume this are you granting permission for the use of the track, obviously if you reply declining our permission we will not use the song in our project.

Many thanks

Jade Coutinho, Sarah Ryan, Molly Rowe

Filming

When it came to filming our film trailer we decided to start filming during the February Half-Term, by doing this it meant that we would have longer to film the scenes and by doing it inFebruary meant if something was to go wrong we would have a chance to change it before our deadline. Using our Animatic we worked out a number of different shots and locations we could use on film day and a schedule of when we are to film it. We decided to use a panasonic video camera to film the trailer, but found it to not be completely affective and HD. When filming some of the shots the lighting wasn't perfect and this caused further fuzz. 

The first filming session went really well although after returning to school and uploading the clips we found that we would need some individual shots to work with the titles and a couple of extra shots for the ending of the trailer where the plot reaches its climax.