Topics Discussed – The overall storyline, characters and casting.
First storyline discussed: Title = ‘Unknown’
An unlikely love story between a boy who wants to become a BMX professional and a girl who is dedicated to her school work. As they meet by chance, they become better friends and as they get to know each other they end up falling in love; however, he goes off the rails when he is pressured by his family to do better in school and, unintentionally, brings her down with him. After months of rebelling against her family in order to continue her relationship with the boy, the girl’s father finally has enough and puts his foot down; he stops his daughter from seeing the boy and in the end, gives her an ultimatum – boyfriend or family?
In order to gain the best feedback possible, we decided that basing the decision on just our opinions wouldn't make our trailer the most successful; however if we had the opinions and encouragment from members of our target audience, the feedback we could gain would no doubt help us towards the best decision.
We decided to interview students aged between 15-17 asking them what they thought of each storyline, here is some of the recorded feedback for the first storyline:
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Second storyline discussed: Title = ‘The Way We Were’
A boy and a girl, who live next door to each other, have been best friends since forever – they go to the same nursery, primary school and secondary school; over the years they begin to start a relationship but when the girl’s father gets a promotion at work and is forced to move to another city, the boy and girl, teenagers at this point, agree to try and stay in touch but end their relationship and friendship with the exchange of a mutually important object. After three years apart and minimal contact, the boy and girl are re-united at university, but much to the boy’s dismay, the girl already has a boyfriend. A brief reuniting occurs in which the boy tries to persuade the girl to rekindle their childhood romance; however the girl persists that they cannot go back to ‘the way they were’ – the story ends with the ultimatum of whether the girl will choose they boy she is with now or whether she will go back to her childhood sweetheart, who does she choose?
Here is some of the feedback for the second storyline:
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After a thorough discussion and some disagreement, we used the opinions and feedback from our recorded interviews to work as a team; we decided to go with our second storyline titled ‘The Way We Were’ – this is because the first storyline seemed very out there and optimistic, whereas with the second storyline we felt there was more to add, more depth and development that could be made. We then made the decision to draw up a draft story board containing 8 different scenes, each describing the most important parts of the storyline. This helped us with casting, dialogue and choosing our final story board - it helped the actors to produce a character when they knew the scenes they were portraying, it gave us a basis on how to start our dialogue and how we would want our final trailer to appear.
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