Petals Fury

These are some of the Soundtracks we considered using however voted against.

The reason why we didn't use this soundtrack was due to copyright issues that may have occurred due to the familiarity of the song.

We knew that we weren't going to use this song as it is really popular and we knew there would certainly be issues to do with copyright, however it influenced our ideas about what kind of soundtrack which we wanted. we wanted it to be fast paced and quite comical.

At one point we looked at fast paced, quite rough music as we thought it might be a good idea to reflect the gangster side of Alan through music, however we decided that this wouldn't reflect our genre which is teen comedy, therefore voted against it.

Improving Our Trailer

Our initial trailer did not work the way we had originally intended it to work, it had many classic conventions such lots of different scenes from the movie put together in a sequence, however it didn’t work as the sequence was suppose to make sense and flow, so that it was almost a short version of the film so you could understand what the story line was. Yet when our trailer was put together it did not achieve this as you couldn’t understand what the story line was. The name of the movie also contrasted with the whole concept of the film as the film was called ‘Petals Fury’ on the other hand there was hardly anything in the trailer that suggested ‘Fury’ in other words anger to the audience, even though there was a scene where we saw the main character Alan getting robbed by a couple of girls it didn’t really relate to the title as according to the title we should have actually put in a few scenes where we saw our main character get angry.

So we decided to improve upon our trailer by changing it so that our trailer was a sequence of a variety of Video Diaries created by our main character Alan, which would hint on what would happen in our film without giving out much detail. We thought that this would work better as it would achieve the intentions of a teaser trailer much better than our previous version. This way we also manage to create a sense of mystery as you don’t actually see anything from the actual movie this way it would create a direct connection with the audience leaving them to want more. This was inspired by the Toy Story 3 trailer which was one of the trailers we looked at after we realise that we had to improve on our previous trailer.

More Location Shots

Filming Our Scenes

The Props - Convent Garden

These are the props that we used in Covent Garden.

We decided to use the bag with the pennies on it, at the last second because we wanted Alan to be a more realistic street performer and when we looked at the other street performers, they had hats or dog bowls in front of them with some money in them. As it was short notice we used what we had and that we thought that would be most suitable so we used Josh's (Alan) bag and emptied out the pennies from our pockets and put them out in front of him.

Finding the shoes were quite difficult compared to the dress, as the boy who played Alan wore size 10 male shoes. We wasn't quite sure if this meant size 10 in female shoes so we went down to our local shoe shop where the lady working told us that it would be around a 43, but that not every shoe store would have this size shoe. However we were quite lucky to find a pair in the charity shop down the road. We thought that the shoes would work quite well as they looked quite worn out and clashed with the dress, and that was exactly the kind of look were going for which was quite tacky and outrageous at the same time.

This is the necklace which we used for alan to wear, it was quite simple but it looked sweet which we thought would add a nice little feminine touch to our character.

We used this silver belt as one of the other accessories purely because it was quite large and it was clearly seen when put over the dress, but the main reason was because it was shiny and silver. This was particularly useful for us as drag queens tend to like the glitz and glamour and to be the centre of attention.

This was the neck tie we used, we used both the neck tie and the necklace because the necklace was quite small and even though you could see it we thought it would be a good idea to have something a little extra.

The dress was another item we found in a charity shop, as you can see it has a shine to it and it looks like a vintage dress left over from the 80's. The reason why we chose the dress however was because we thought that it would be perfect for our character of a drag queen, as the dress looked like his mothers and that he just took it out of her wardrobe which was similar to the look we were going for.

We also used a glamour to add a bit of glamour to our character.

We used a variety of different nail varnish colours instead of sticking to the one colour, because we wanted our character to be as exaggerated as possible. In the picture below you can see the final outcome of what his nails looked like.