Intertitle analysis

I analysed the inter titles of the trailer for The Spectacular Now, because this is an independent film that is of a similar genre to mine, a teen drama. 

The first inter-title that is presented in the trailer is telling the audience that the film's writers also wrote '500 Days of Summer', another independent film. This will engage audiences, especially those who have seen and like 500 Days of Summer. This targets a specific audience.

The next inter-title shows that this film won an award at Sundance Festival, which shows that it was widely appreciated at this festival. This also establishes an audience, those who like winners from Sundance or those who like the Sundance Festival. 

The next three inter-titles include reviews of the film, including positive comments about the actors and director. These reviews come from Rolling Stone Magazine, Collider and Filmmaker magazine. These are targetted at specific audiences and film lovers, therefore could attract a slightly more niche market.

The next inter-title is the title of the film. The title is in bold and the 'now' is really big, this draw attention to the title and look as if the text is jumping out at you.

The last inter-title is the date of release which is really important, notifying eager audiences when they can see this film. 

From this analysis, I have decided that in my trailer I'm going to have 'From the makers of...", as well as a few reviews from magazines/news papers/websites. I also need to decide a 'release date' for my trailer to put at the end. I might decide to use a colour scheme like this trailer, which uses white and yellow, although I will decide which colours look better when editing.

Institution research

After doing some research, I decided to use the institution 'Indian Paintbrush' to produce my film as I want to recreate the style of films that they create and produce.

Diary - Filming day 2

I decided to try and get the majority of my filming done with Casey today as it would save us having to keep arranging dates which could have been complicated or difficult to arrange. In these scenes I had to shoot myself and Casey sitting in her house, then looking through photo albums to find a list. That was my main aim for the trailer as I wanted to explain the storyline. 
Then I had to include the key scene of Ellie telling Casey that she is going to America, this scene was shot in Casey's room however, half through filming my camera ran out of battery and I did not have the charger with me. This was a bit of a setback as it would mean i would have had to go home to get the charger then wait for the camera to charge. However, I resolved this problem by using Casey's phone to film. Her phone is high quality, but the sound was a bit quieter than the camera, however this is easily changed in editing. Another scene we filmed was with Casey's mum.
After that Casey and I recorded ourselves doing the things on 'the list', for example eating ice cream, dancing and giving each other makeovers. I will try and find space in the trailer for a few of these scenes to show the friendship of the two girls.
Overall, we had a successful day of filming and the next time I will be filming is in America!