Film Poster

The changes I made from the first draft of my poster to this final one has mainly been the images, and I used one from the footage that we got at winter wonderland. However all my text for the titles, credits and taglines have remained the same, apart from a few changes of colour

Website

http://angharadprydie.wix.com/myfriendava

This is the link to the promotional website I have created for our film

Third Draft

This is the third draft to our trailer and we tried to make changes to make the relationship with Jack more clear as well as Ava's illness as she stops attending school with Izzy. We did not feel there was much we could do with the footage we had so we just added a voiceover saying "And with my best friend and his sister confined at home, it was just me and Jack." I felt that this helped to show Ava starts to keep to herself and leaves Izzy lonely, especially with it being after the voiceover saying her illness affects her. The following clips also show Izzy and Jack together, and this hopefully tells the narrative that because it is just those two, they start to become closer.
Unfortunately the audio quality is different to the other voiceover and they do not sound similar, making it seem less professional.  

Production Log

27th November: First take with Rosie, and extras Alex and Kym

2nd December: Went to different locations without our actors to shoot establishing shots 

10th December: Shot 3 scenes with actors Lucy and Rosie in locations at my house: Alone in bedroom, phone call argument, Izzy at a party

30th December: Went to Winter Wonderland with our actors Lucy and Rosie to shoot. We thought this was a nice and different location as in our survey people said they wanted more interesting places instead of just school and home

5th January: Shot more establishing shots of home and the rain

11th January: Filmed school scenes with Lucy: Receiving a note from Jack in her locker, and crying in the toilet because she is alone at school and sad that Ava is unwell

9th January: Photoshoot for Magazines and poster

Editing Log

First Draft

This is the first draft for our trailer. We both did basic editing techniques such as cutting and trimming clips, muting the audio of our clips and choosing copyright free music to use. Although this does not include a voiceover, we do intend to have one from our main character Izzy as narration and therefore we want to add this to our next draft. After showing this draft to our teachers and peers we got feedback including:

• Add captions to do with friendship/family for example to explain the story and make the length longer
• Change the order of some clips to fit with conventions of a trailer
• Move 'From the creators of 'Rosie'' to the beginning

Second Draft

As well as adding our voiceover, we applied the other improvements we received to our trailer which was mostly moving clips around. Something we did which I personally think is a huge improvement was making the clips under the voiceover a slower pace to convey the drama and sadness, and this fit well with the non diegetic sound. Comparing this to other trailers, I thought the slow motion adhered well with films of the same genre as 'The Fault in Our Stars' for example uses this technique in their trailer. We got more feedback on this draft including:

• Make the relationship between the brother more clear
• Explain more about Ava's illness

We had the option of making a draft without the brother to see if the narrative was easy to follow, but as this would remove a lot of our footage and take the time of our trailer down considerably, we decided against this. If we had more time to film with our actors then this may have been a good thing to do. However we thought of adding more voiceover or captions to explain that Izzy has lost one friend and wants to find another and this is something we will do in our next edit.

Film Poster - First Draft