Pearl harbour.

Pearl harbour begins with the shot of a sunset that is slowly fading into the forest below, this shows the audience that there is more than likely going to be a love scene, this prediction is also enforced by the music as it is a slow and loving song that back in the time that it was made would have been considered very romantic. There is then a shot of a plane interrupting the sunset and flying towards the camera at an angle.

After this there is a close up of the plane with the sunset placed behind it, the sound of the music becomes a little louder during this close up. The plane is then faded out and a blurry sunset is placed there instead with the title ‘Pearl Harbour’ slowly appearing in front of it. The whole scene upto yet is a very orange like colour that is tinted with brown.

The slow music continues and the audience sees the plane beginning to land, whilst the camera is pointed at a worms eye view from the ground. There is then a pan of the plane landing from the side and the grass blurred in at the front of the camera. The audience then see’s the plane flying again but this time it is from a birds eye view and the whole of the plane can be seen. A white title is placed at the bottom reading ‘Tennessee, 1923.’ This gives the audience an indication of the date and why the plane looks so old fashioned.

There is then another worms eye view of the plane flying over an old fashioned barn that looks very derelict and destroyed, there is also a windmill and a working tractor. The state of the barn shows the destruction the war has done and how the farmers had to keep on working for their families, even though they had little money and supplies. The camera then zooms in on the barn where the audience can see a small amount of movement.

The camera is then placed in front of a man pedaling a bike that has two playing cards attached to the back of it, the audience however can only see his feet and shoes, which are very well polished. The camera then zooms on the two playing cards flickering against the bike, the sound of the cards can also be heard.

The camera then pans upwards from a propeller towards two children sat in the seat of an old, ruined airplane, wearing hats and goggles on their heads. They are making shooting noises, this again shows the audience that there is a war happening and how it is affecting the children. The camera then quickly focus’s back onto the field where the plane that is flying swoops down low and the children can be heard wowing it.

Evaluation.

Our trailer is about a olden day family that is split because of the war. The young girl is made to stay at home whilst her husband is forced away to war. We decided to follow this storyline as it would capture audiences of all different age ranges and follow a very basic storyline that many of the older generation would be able to empathise with.

We began our story by filming the grass swaying in the breeze and showing how over powering and destructive the war was by playing a loud plane noise over the top of the slow music. We got this idea from a film called ‘Cold Mountain’, which began by showing the audience that was watching the setting before revealing the main plot line. We took ideas from this movie as it was based on the same genre and was a large inspiration to us throughout our piece.

We then looked at what we wanted our film to say to the audience. We looked at the different representations that we could use and saw that it strongly reflected the differences between genders and how the men were seen as the protectors. This was our original idea. We also showed the love that many families during that time had for each other and how desperate they was to be with each other yet again.

Our main target audience for this piece was the older generation as we thought they would be the group that would mostly connect to it. Many of the older people we had spoken to had been in some kind of a similar situation and we thought that it would reflect the way they felt and how badly they needed their loved ones. However, after asking many people that were younger we discovered that the film would in fact attract many people of this age range as many of the female candidates said that they loved a romance film no matter what time it was set in.

We chose our setting as a small olden times town that was located nearby. This turned out to be the perfect setting as it was quiet and had the red letterbox that we required for the shoot. We found a quiet little field to film the shots under the tree, that we had previously decided would be their ‘special place’.

Overall, I believe our piece was very professional looking and delivered what the audience was looking for. We did this by our editing in Adobe Premier and the amount of preparation that was given by all of us before the filming.

What we each did.

Our story board.

Our final letter.

Our idea's for the letter between Jenny and William.

Camera map.