Treatment

We are making a film trailer, which will be around 1-2 minutes long. The chosen genre is a romantic drama.
The story follows the life of the female protagonist, (unnamed at the moment). We see her in a couple of happily married shots of the two walking together and other typical couple situations, these will be the first shots and will be in slight slow motion with a voiceover. The voiceover will be the woman speaking, starting off with a famous love poem going on to her own speech, the audience will then realise that this is her talking at her husband’s funeral. It is autumn, a leaf then falls down from a tree which symbolises the end of his life, and this is a main part of the trailer as we did not want to film a funeral as it would be very difficult to gather enough people to fill the church. We also think this idea is subtler and more effective/emotional. The woman walks through her home town, which is decorated with Christmas lights and window displays, showing how time has moved on. She is surrounded by happy families and couples who seem to her to be moving in fast motion, this symbolises that her world is moving in slow motion when everyone else is speeding by. Then moving to a point of view shot from her eyes, she looks into the Christmas window displays whilst the moving soft music gradually gets louder. The woman then bumps into an old friend a couple of times and we see the protagonist become happy again. Summer then comes round and this is shown by a flower growing which also symbolises her happiness growing.