Initial Ideas & Planning

When viewing existing teaser trailers of different genres, we immediately ruled out the Horror genre as the conventions would be extremely hard to replicate in a low-budget production.
We then ruled out the Rom-Com genre, as we realised that the standard of acting, and potentially un-comical footage could make our production un-effective. When analysing Action/Adventure teaser trailers, we firstly thought it would be a good genre to experiment with, and we would be able to challenge the expected conventions of this genre by using female protagonists. However, we then realised that our production would not be effective as we would not be able to produce a high standard of special effects that are required to make an Action/Adventure film successful.

We decided as a group to look at Romantic teaser trailers and found that this genre would be potentially easy to film as we would not need many special effects so this would be ideal to create a low-budget teaser trailer for. We set about creating spider diagrams containing potential locations, characters and existing films that would be an influence to us. However, after a few lessons where we tried to come up with a potential pitch, we realised we had not come up with a storyline we could all agree on, and we were using too much of out time.


After the release of “Angels & Demons”, we looked at teaser trailers of the same kind of genre. We decided to create our teaser trailer of the Mystery/Thriller genre.

We then researched five different trailers for our genre looking at conventions that we would need to include in our own trailer and also at styles and effects that we could try to incorporate into our own plot. When we had finally decided on our genre and had analysed existing trailers, we then set about creating our pitch. We would need to come up with a storyline with characters and possible shots.