The document outlines plans for a student film trailer for an urban romance genre project. Key details include: - Filming locations in Brixton and using costumes/props like jeans, hoodies, bandanas, fake weapons. - A predominantly black cast portraying stereotypical characters of gang members and a vulnerable female. - Scenes of violence and an ambulance scene to create mystery and intrigue for the audience. - A £30 budget and production schedule to plan filming.

1. Deborah Haastrup

2.  My partner and I have planned to meet up
during free lessons and every other weekend
if necessary in the library.
 The documentation of this meeting will be
done on paper as it is easily accessible and
portable. Then it will be transferred onto our
blogs as a finalised plan.

3.  We have decided to do an urban romance
genre as we concluded that it was the one
that had the best storyline and could be done
with the facilities we had open to us.

4. Location
 We have decided that the main location will be in Brixton as it Is an area
that has a reputation of violence, crime and underprivileged kids.
 There will be other locations used such as the hospital, Waterloo
gratified area, outside around college.
Costume/ make-up
 The costume will be simple things like: jeans, T-shirts, hoodies, jackets,
trainers, cardigans and hats. These are the items are casual clothes. And
by dressing my characters in these it creates verisimilitude.
 We will be using eye pencil to draw on the bruise.
Props
 There will be a few props that we plan to use for example: bandanas,
knife /gun, mobile, flour(illusion of drugs). The bandanas will be
different colours like red and blue to establish area code violence as it
defines the area you live in.
Lighting
 The lighting will be manipulated by the time of day and the house lights.
So if we planned to do a dark night scene with minimal lighting we will
go to a place where the street light is our only source if light and it will
be shot in the evening.

5.  Sound effects are very important when it comes
to trailers as they entice their audience as well as
emulate the desired feelings from them.
 Sound helps define the genre of the film. For
example if the trailer is slow with mellow sound
effects then the audience will assume it’s a
romance or a sad drama the scenes assist in that
decision.
 Our genre is urban romance so I picked a song
that was commonly known within my targeted
audience so whenever they heard it they’ll
associate it with the trailer. This will help with the
promotion of my trailer.

6.  I have decided to have a predominately black cast as that is the
normal conventions of an urban romance trailer.
 It is also because the issues that my trailer deals with such as
knife crime is what the media have associated with black people
 I have thought a lot about the characteristics I want my
characters to posses. I wanted the main female characters to be
short but not portly. This is because the male characters will be
tall or at least noticeably taller than the female. So when they
stand together you’ll see her as more vulnerable and weak.
 The male is to appear to have strength and look intimidating to
show dominance throughout.
 The planned ages for the characters are 18-35 with the social
class ranging from C1 to E.
 I have planned a breakdown scene for all my characters to let
them know of the director’s vision and what is expected from
them.

7.  The media have built a stereotype against
black people. The image that has been
created is that black males are
violent, gangsters, drug dealers. This has had
a huge impact on the way black people are
received as that is the automatic assumption
placed upon them. We have planned to stick
with the stereotype.

8.  As the screenwriter, costume director and
casting director it’s my job to write and
develop the storyboard and I also decide what
goes in it.
 So as I have written the storyboard I have
decided with the director that if we do feel
that any scenes will be changed or we feel
that there should be additional scenes we will
put them in. our feedback will also guide us
in that decision.

9.  I worked out the solid structure of my trailer by
creating the synopsis first. It took time to finalise as
there was a lot of consulting with my director. I also
had to be happy with it.
 Synopsis- Its about a couple who had to depart but
promised each other they’ll reconnect. This forced
her to move on with her life, but them her ex
boyfriend came back. Wanting everything to go back
to the way it was he will do all it takes, even kill. But
does she want to carry on her new life or follow her
old one?
 This relates to my genre as it carries the themes that
my genre holds such as love, loss, gang
violence, deceit and betrayal.

10.  The targeted audience is 15- 25 year olds
who will relate to the themes of the trailer.
People like to see themselves in the things
they watch so as I have a predominately black
cast, black people will more likely want to
watch it.
 The social demographic for it will be C1 –E
just like the characters shown with the trailer.

11.  I plan to use the scene where a girl gets
punched in a diner as it’s an action scene. I
found through my research that the best way
to introduce a trailer was to use a scene
where something is happening that will shock
the audience.
 I plan to use the ambulanced scene as a way
to leave mystery creating an enigma. This will
leaves the audience wanting more and want
to find out what happens

12.  The first title was forever and always but it
was changed to
 The planned font was to be whimsical yet
bold so we went into dafont and looked for
our idea. It fits the conventions of an urban
romance as

13.  I have decided to use taglines as I find that it
is very effective in a teaser trailer as is acts as
a narrator and it can slow down the pace of a
trailer.
 It’s also effective as it’s a interactive way for
the audience to get involve as they will read
along.

14.  The budget for the trailer will be £30 even
though the cost of props will be £26.38 the
rest will be there in case of emergencies.
Item/object Price (£) Purpose
Icing sugar 0.89 Fake drugs
Bandanas x2 2.00 Gang
affiliations
Fake gun 2.50 ‘’
Flowers 3.00 death
KFC 17.99 Actors reward
Total 26.38

15.  We will be planning every step of our
production. I will draw up a table of the time
costume and actors being used.
 I will use a shot list break down so I can
decipherer what angles go with what scene
clearly.
 I will be keeping in constant contact with my
actors to keep them posted.