With the analysis out of the way, we got into our groups and started working on what we were going to do for our own film trailer. We did have the choice of either making a documentary or a music video for our final piece, but we all decided that having done the work on Film Trailers more recently, as well as having already done a music video and finding documentaries downright boring to make, we decided that making a film trailer for a fictional film would be the best course of action.
After a short brainstorming session, we had decided on a basic outline of the story of our film - a young man, Joel, would go to his cousin, a psychotic drug dealer, and tell him that he didn't have the money to afford University. His cousin would enter him into a poker game, which Joel would then lose after betting all the money that his cousin lent him. In an effort to pay off the debt, Joel would commit several crimes and eventually end up becoming so good at criminal work that he'd begin to work for his cousin full time. After being given a job with a rival crime boss, Joel's cousin would be uncomfortable with the thought of Joel working with anyone other than himself, as Joel had been making him a lot of money. Joel's cousin would kidnap Joel, hold him captive in a place far away from anywhere else, and either interrogate him, employ him, or shoot him. By that point we hadn't thought of an ending, and decided to just end the trailer with a cliffhanger as Joel is held at gunpoint by his cousin.
This was the basic idea we had for our film trailer. We decided that we'd try and inform the audience of the basic plot, considering that we'd been too vague concerning the fate of the protagonist in our music video and wanted to make sure that the audience knew enough of what was going on as far as the plot of our fake film was concerned. Since it was a realistic action / crime oriented fim, we'd have to make sure it was realistic to the point where it wasn't too far-fetched, which meant that we'd have to make sure the props and sets we used were at least halfway passable as possible locations for the scenes we were shooting to occur in. We knew it'd be difficult to make our scenes look like we wanted them to, considering that we'd only really be able to shoot at locations around the school, as the school would obviously be an easy place for us to organise ourselves and meet up with everyone we needed to make the trailer, including the various actors we'd need to make the film (we figured it'd be easier to have a lot of actors than to just have the three people in our group somehow do all the roles).
The genre of the film would be action / crime, but we'd only have flashes of action, with most of the content of the trailer being on the crime angle of the film. This would not only make the production of the trailer much easier, but also mean that it would be obvious that the focus was on crime rather than the usual "good vs evil" idea of action films.
Had we been making a film trailer for an actual film, we would've been making it for distribution in multiplex cinemas, before a similar film was shown, and also through internet mediums such as YouTube. The film would be aimed at ages 18 and up, due to the level of violence, the perceived "glorification" of firearms, and the dealing of illegal substances. Gambling would also make up a large part of the plot, contributing to the 18 rating. As far as marketing is concerned, none of us involved are particularly well-known like Ridley Scott or Quentin Tarantino, and we won't be using any particularly famous actors, so we'll be giving the illusion that we're famous by having the names of the main actors flashing up quickly at the end of the trailer. We would've referred to our music video by claiming the film was "From the director of 'Raindrops'", but we agreed that it might be a bit corny so in the end we decided not to.
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