Costume
What will your characters wear? What is the costume supposed to communicate to the audience? How does this link to your Statement of Intent in terms of creating representations?
The costumes that my characters will be wearing will reflect the London lifestyle at the moment so I will incorporate the use of tracksuits, hoodies, jeans trainers etc, but also I will try to go for a postmodern look, showing the diversity of London and its people. In regards to representations I think that having tracksuits will reinforce stereotypes as it is seen as a 'road' or 'street' look most commonly found around the younger generation.
Lighting
How will you light your trailer? Day or night? Interior or exterior? If outside, can you use streetlights, shadows, reflected sunlight or other creative techniques to achieve the lighting style you want? If inside, experiment with creative lighting techniques using windows, blinds, artificial lights, phone flashes and more.
For lighting I want to have a good mixture of both high key and low-key, however I'm hoping to have most of the trailer set in the night time to really give off that ominous, detective tone/feeling so that the audience can easily understand what I am attempting to achieve with this. The use of streetlights will be effective as well as it adds to the mystery and enigma that the show brings. In addition, the low-key lighting is an efficient censoring technique as the darkness can cover up scenes that may break the pre-watershed rule. I do also plan to film a few scenes when the suns out so that I can use natural lighting, therefore it'll add a sense of realism.
Actors
The first thing you need to plan is your cast - who will be in your production and which characters will they play? Try and cast people who are reasonably similar to the character they are playing (both in age and personality). Next, plan their placement and movement in key scenes in your trailer. Do you want them to appear trapped in a claustrophobic close-up? Or isolated as a tiny person in a wide shot?
Protagonist-Kyle
Helper-Hassan
False hero-Hanad
Antagonist-Andi
Antagonist-Aranvir
Make-up
Plan any make-up you require - this can be very important for characterisation or particular sub-genres of TV drama (but make sure it still fits the crime/family brief).
I don't plan to use a lot of make-up in my trailer as I don't want to breach anything said in the breach about it being pre-watershed but I also want to add characterisation so for example scars from different attacking scenarios, bits of blood on certain scenes and etc.
Props
What props will you require? Remember, you can't use anything that might resemble a weapon in a public or school location (this is VERY important). Well-planned props can help to communicate genre and character quickly - vital in a short trailer.
For props I'm going to go with things that link to a crime drama so dark clothing, detective files, phones, make up, boards, bottles and more.
Setting
This should already be largely planned using your script. However, now is the time to specify exact locations - if a classroom, which one? How will you arrange it with the teacher? When will you film there? For external locations, try and take pictures of settings or use Google Maps and Google Earth. Spending quality time planning your locations can make a huge difference to the professionalism of your film. AQA also seem to prefer external rather than school-based locations.
I will be filming my trailer at different locations, ranging from my house to central London and also different areas that I hope will be unique to my trailer. I don't plan on using the school in my trailer at all which is different from my preliminary task as it was set in school.
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