Title: "The Retrograde"

We have decided on the title "The Retrograde"  as we wanted to pick a title that would reflect an event, and for a our example the event is specifically based around wiping memory or reversing peoples thoughts. As you can see from this screenshot, retrograde suits this well. We wanted to use a word different from "reverse" or "forget" and we found "retrograde" in the thesaurus so we have now rested on that.

The Tense Call

Our main actor, Max Boyden, attends Tunbridge Wells Boys Grammar School and therefore we decided that, in order to suit his availability to our needs, we would aim to shoot at his school using drama students from there as well as those who attend Weald. This way we will be able to visit the school rather than removing Max from his school schedule. The school had the appropriate setting and we will bring any other equipment we need and similarly, we feel that it will be more credited to shoot in unfamiliar surroundings.

Here is the progress update video of Jak calling the school to arrange our shooting times.

Cast

These are the potential actors/actresses we have in mind in order to play the roles we need. As our film trailer is a complex situation, we are in need of a large number of available characters. 
Cast (order of appearance):

•Boy: Max Boyden 

•Host girl: Hannah Rae 

•Girls friend: Bee Williamson 

•Party goers: Ross, Conor, Jak, Joseph, Sam, Katie, Hannah,Bee, Georgia, Tiffany, Lucie, Alice, Georgia, Tamsin, Beth, Grace, Holly, Sam MS

•Girls other friends: Tamsin, Beth, Grace, Holly 

•Boys friend: Lewie? Jack Cutler? 

•Government 1: Jak's dad? Tiffany's dad? 

•Government 2: Jak's dad? Tiffany's dad? Tom from year12? 

•Chat room people; Boy x3, girl x2 

Locations

These are the locations we plan to use within the school. The drama studio can be used for the party scene due to its lighting and black curtains. We did some test shots of the scene where a specific transition will be used, seen by the close up of Jak in front of a white wall.

Locations still to find are:

The Bedroom

The conversation scene

The government scene

Areas to film action shots.

Progress

We made a video where we talk about our recent progress and what we are going to do next.

Script first draft

As our trailer includes a lot of dialogue, we felt it would be sensible to create a script to follow so that we keep on the right lines and are focused. The stage directions also act as a guide to our storyline.

First Storyboard

This is our first storyboard for our film trailer. To suit the genre we decided to throw in moments of action and tension to increase suspense and also to speed up the pace of the trailer to reflect the genre.

Music for the trailer

As we are progressing through our narrative idea, we decided it would be a good idea to look into what music we will have playing through the trailer. 

A YouTube account called 'The Secession' produces music for real films and trailers, so looking at the music they produce was a good starting point. We are allowed to use the music they make for our own personal videos if we don't monetize it, for free. 

I analysed a few trailers which had music suited for our genre in and then found music by the Secession which sounded similar and may use. 

50 Shades of Grey had very tense music which engaged me as a viewer. I liked how they timed some of the important shots according to the beats of the music. - 

LUCY also had epic cinematic music which we may use during the end of our trailer. - 

At the end of the transformers trailer it has an epic sound effect in which the footage flashed on screen, we liked this. -