Planning: Creating our screenplay

In class we had to come up with a script of some sort. Having dialogue in a film trailer is key as this helps to  keeping your audience engaged and so then we could start piecing together the music and action. To do this we used a special software called Celtx. Celtx is a free media pre-productions software designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos,stage plays, audio plays, documentaries,comics and much more. Together we decided, but not officially, what would be said in the trailer as well as he different scene types. We agreed on our characters and on what their role in the film was eg. jock, popular girl, main character ect. We also started to round up actors/volunteers that would agree to act for us or be an extra in our trailer. After agreeing on what we had done we fixed the scenes so they were in an order we prefer. This made it easier for us to imagine what our trailer was going to come out like it was important that all three of us in the group agreed and had the same image in our mind. When we decided for now our screenplay was done we went back to look at Awates music. It would now be easier for us to visualise in our minds exactly what track we wanted to place in our trailer. Again we wanted an urban feel as it we are tackling a contemporary issue however it also had to coincide with the horror genre and match what was happening on screen. This was a difficult task and we were not able to come up with just one soundtrack. We decided that we would choose three and when our trailer started to transform we would find this easier for us to apply music to and perhaps remix or loop some of the sounds.