Our progression with our trailer

As we finished filming last week, which took a weight of our shoulders, we now have a lot of time to put in towards making our trailer the best we possibly can. In today's lesson we managed to get a lot done in terms of titles, sound (the voice over) and cutting down our footage. After we had done this we asked our teacher for feedback on our titles etc. we realised that our design of our titles didn't exactly fit in with our trailer as it is a love story but not a typical one as someone dies at the end; so we changed this. We also realised that some clips were still too long after we had cut them down. For a trailer the scenes should only be seconds long to not give too much away of the story and still attract the audience at the end of the day. We found that  the longer our clips are the more it seems like an opening sequence rather than a trailer which we do not want. 

Furthermore to include our actor/actresses names in our trailer we decided to use our title format again but this time instead we will just include the actor/actresses names itself so the names appearing on the screen doesn't neccesarily need to follow any particular sequence as you would with an opening sequence. The first time we went about including the actors names we also included their real names which we realised we should not do as it is a trailer and you don't see the actor/actresses real names in a trailer; again this will make our trailer  seem more like an opening sequence which we do not want.  We also ended  up moving our production logo to the very beginning of our trailer, after the green screen as after getting feedback we realised that it made more sense to be there. Watching our trailer from the beginning at the end of the lesson it seemed more like a trailer rather than an opening sequence to us, which was one of our struggles. We hope that when we show our teacher our trailer again to get more feedback he will also see our progress.