Monday, 14 December 2015

LO1 Notes on Trailer Analysis

A)Purpose:
  • To promote 
  • To entertain
  • To attract an audience to watch the film.
B)Form
  • The form of this video is a film trailer.
  • The name of the film the trailer is for and who the director is.
  • Add I know its a film trailer because it is non-linear
C/D)Content and Meaning
  • Mise-en-scene (Location, Costume [Protaganist, Antagonist], Gestures, Lighting [Low Key- Dark, Natural and High Key- Light] and Props)(3-4)
  • Sound (Diegetic [Dialogue and sound Effects i.e. Sirens] and non-diegetic [Incedental music playing other the trailer] (one of each)
  • Camera Work (Angles [High Angle- to show the subject on screen as powerless and Low Angle- To show the dominant subject on screen] , Shot Types [Close up and Wide shot] and Movement [Pan left and right, Tracking Left and right and Tilting from low and high angle]) (1 of each camera work)
  • Editing (Action Match [1 movement over multiple shots], Shot reverse shot structure [Conversation], Cross Cutting [Same time, different location] and Eye line Match [Where you see what the person in a previous shot was looking at in the next shot], Jumpcutting [Montage], Title Graphics [Text that appears on screen], Transitions [scenes, locations], [Fade, Fade to black- ending something, Fade up to black- Starting something] , dissolve - ellipsis [Passage of time] .) (2)
  • Meaning: Denotation (What you see) and connotation (What it symbolises)- Will be influenced by its genre. Conventions of the genre and the effect on the audience (Use words like versimilitude, spectacle). Laura Mulvey (male gaze) AND  John Berger (Men act woman appear), Binary Opposition, Carl Rodgers (1980) (Ideal self and ideal partner). Stereotypes.
E)Genre
Thriller, comedy, Sci-fi, action etc. (Hybrids)

F)Audience

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