Changes in characters

After receiving feedback from various people of our second draft, it became a common theme that people would criticise the scenes involving the detective which was played by me. This obviously hurt my feelings, however it was something that needed to be changed in order to keep with the theme of the thriller genre and to also conform to the typical conventions of thriller trailers. That is, the detective should seem wise and old.

So, as a group we had a quick brainstorm to edit this part of the trailer to make sure it is successful in portraying the plot of our film. In addition, we all thought a detective should be shown in the trailer, as he would have a large role in the actual film. It also adds to tension, in the trailer for Zodiac and Se7en there is a large emphasis on the detective work in tracking down the delinquent. Moreover, we had a quick brainstorm for solutions to this issue and we came up with the following:
￫Ask teachers or parents
￫Completely edit it out
￫Change outfit for my character to look more sophisticated
￫Ask anyone in the age range of 40-50

After this, somebody called Ben who has a relation to Henry Dalrymple decided to help us out and play the detective for the film. He is 48 years of age and he fits the role perfectly. We have already made arrangements to film a few shots with him, but seeming as he is busy with work, we will not have a lot of time with him. However, this will be enough to tease the audience as to who the character is. In the film the character will be known as detective which connotes to the audience that he is well respected in his field of work which gives the audience confidence in making sure Rosey is rescued.

This has also meant that the scenes with the characters of Rosey's mum and sister finding out will be cut out, however this could be a positive thing because this leaves this part of the plot for the film and not the trailer. One aspect of thriller trailers is that they do not tell a story, the trailer is usually not in chronological order which makes it seem slightly distorted.