The document summarizes a mood board created by three students to help develop ideas for a teaser trailer for a romance film aimed at audiences aged 16-21. The mood board includes images from films like "Love Rosie" and "Never Let Me Go" representing elements of mise-en-scene, camera shots, editing, characters, and settings commonly found in romance films. It describes the inspiration taken from these elements to design scenes and convey the tone for their own teaser trailer about three friends where romantic relationships form between them.

1. MOODBOARD ANNOTATIONS – By Leanne, Nilima, Fatma.
We created a mood board that represented the conventional elements of
Romance films, covering some of the micro elements: mise-en-scene, Camera
shots and editing as well as looking at representation and character. Our mood
board was created with the purpose of helping us to form a foundation of
ideas of which we could start to bring ideas together for our own teaser trailer.
We started research for the mood board by watching trailers of romance films
and romantic comedies, aimed at an audience between the ages of 16-21 and
had simple but intriguing concepts. ‘Love Rosie’, ‘Never Let Me Go’ and
‘Friends with Benefits’ acted as our primary sources which various screen shots
and posters that can be found on the mood board above. All three films had
narratives that involved the relationships between friends which form into
more sexualized or romantic relations; we want our narrative to have a similar
concept.

2. MOODBOARD ANNOTATIONS – By Leanne, Nilima, Fatma.
We gathered as many
images of three best
friends with two
females and one male
as we could to show
their friendship. This
partciluar image gave
us the inspiration to
have the three best
friends walking in
front of the camera in
Screen Shot: Never Let Me Go
the start of our teaser trailer. They are laughing and chatting away, this was a way to show to how
they are really close friends and was a way to introduce the characters as well. We have one of the
females dressed mostly in casual clothes to show shes comfortable type of person; this look came
from all the females of the films: Love Rosie, Friends with Benefits, Dear John and Never Let Me Go.
This was because this look works very well with females in a conventional Romance film because the
audience can relate to her more.
We was given inspiration by the opening
establishing shot in Love Rosie; it depicted a
small quiet suburban area, that could be
somewhere in London with the sun rising to
connote the beginning of the story. We
decided that we wanted a similar opening shot
of roof tops to show so that we set the scene
of our teaser trailer. With the camera in one
Screen Shot: Love Rosie
position to show a sense of time moving from night to day in a past face motion however we
thought it may be difficult to obtain a high position to get a similar shot. We also found that there
was continuous use of mid shots of friends in the trailers, as it is a good way to show the proxemics
of the characters and also their costumes and facial expressions.
One of our main focuses for our mood board was looking at
creative uses of editing, for example, in Sherlock the BBC
program for text messages there is a simple use of words
appearing on the screen. This method is creative but simple
as conventionally text messages are shown on phones
however, the method that Sherlock uses is clear and
effective and critics have praised it for being ‘inventive’. As
our narrative involves teenagers it would be inevitable that
we want to contain text messages to further plot and
appeal to our target audience. The use of flashback editing
is used in both trailers, this incorporates the memories of
the characters and we thought it would be a good idea to
compliment this with a voice over of one of our three main characters. The use of flashbacks brings

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the audience closer to the characters, and
reveals more about the relationships between
the characters. In our narrative we would also
like to include flashbacks of the three friends to
when they were younger, however finding young
actors may prove difficult and a possible
obstacle. Finally we also liked the idea of
intercepting title sequences that furthered the
trailer and revealed the messages of the film as
show in the Love, Rosie trailer. The bright colours
of orange and white set the tone for the film as being happy, light and romantic. The style of font is
also quite young and suits the language being used “Best friends forever”
The use of flashback editing is used in the
trailers: Never Let Me Go and Love Rosie. This
incorporates the memories of the characters
and we thought it would be a good idea to use
this editing technique in our trailer, back to
when the characters were young children. This
was to show their friendship growing as they
grow older. The use of flashbacks brings the
audience closer to the characters, and reveals
more about the relationships between the characters. This worked and went well with the title
sequence as it made more sense. We added a voice over of one of our main characters, so that this
will engage the audience as it is in first person so it directs them.
We took lighting inspiration
from ‘Love, Rosie’, the
vibrant colours and bright
lighting really set a light and
fun mood for the trailer.
This mood ties in with the
light-hearted teenage
atmosphere. However our
film will also involve some drama and Romance, therefore we thought that we could also
incorporate some romantic lighting such Rembrandt lighting which has a more dramatic look but
also romantic. They also have dim lighting for when they are in their bedrooms, not only does this
show a chilled, calm, tranquil atmosphere, it also shows romance. While thinking about setting we
also felt that some of the trailer could reflect night life, such as the funfair setting, it would look
more effective if that was filmed at night.

4. MOODBOARD ANNOTATIONS – By Leanne, Nilima, Fatma.
SETTING:
We wanted an array of settings that reflected teenage
‘freedom’ and that could be viewed as romantic. We
thought a good example of this might be funfairs, often
used in music videos of young bands such as ‘The Vamps’
and ‘The Vaccines’. Funfairs are associated with
excitement, youth and fun, and we would really like to
include one in our trailer to sum up the teenage
atmosphere. The beach has similar connotations but also romantic ones, which could be
incorporated into our trailer either in a romantic scene or a scene with just the friends. The beach
can also be associated with darker themes, as it could also be described as desolate and isolated. In
Never Let Me Go, the scene in the screen shot is a break up of friendship after an argument. There
are several ways we can use a beach setting, however as we live in London, it may not be practical to
get a whole cast there. An essential setting for our trailer is a teenage bedroom;, it has to reflect the
character we are portraying. The bedroom is an insight into the life of our characters, can be used
for several scenes such as phone conversations, emotional break downs and completing everyday
tasks. The conventional teenage bedroom is the one setting we are certain that we shall use in our
teaser trailer because it is easily accessible.
FILM POSTERS: After looking critically at these film posters we noted that generally film posters
from the romance genre are quite simple in concept. All three of these posters involve mainly the
protagonist and a background picture that contextualizes the film. As our film involves three
protagonists similar to ‘Never Let Me Go’, our film poster could potentially share some identity with
the one displayed, with close ups of the main characters. However, we would use a different
background because our trailer is set in London opposed to a seaside town. The ‘Never Let Me Go’

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poster also encompasses the drama genre as the character expressions convey emotion depicting a
more serious narrative. Whereas ‘Friends with Benefits’ has a more ’tongue in cheek’ narrative
shown through the direct mode of address, Mila Kumis looking directly into the audience smiling.
The seriousness of ‘Never Let Me Go’, is something we want to convey on our film poster, as we
have decided not to make a complete Rom-com although some elements of comedy may appear in
it. The Notebook is similar to ‘Never Let Me Go’` as the poster is evoking ideas of a more passionate,
emotional and forbidden love narrative. We have taken inspiration from this and how it’s been
marketed as an epic love story “The love story to end all love stories” – as shown on the poster.
However, as ours is more of a teenage love story it may be slightly less dramatic, leaning more
towards the ‘Never Let Me Go’ film poster.