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.