Prop descusion

in this section of the blog i will be disusing the implications and the reasoning behind the choices of the props,costumes and general mise-en-scene elements  that i have decided to use in the film trailer. 

Firstly i will talk about the props going to be used; the first category of the props is ones that suggests the topic of military actions and the use of violence in the film. this includes the use of fake gins, flack jackets and radios. the use of guns in our trailer shows the audience the film contains scenes  of violence. In addition to this it helps to portray the action film genre. I took this idea by looking at the 'Jansen bourn' films these films are directly an action film with a huge aspect of mystery about them, this is also the feeling i want to give from our trailer. these are pictures of the guns we are going to use. i chose ones that are easy identifiable by regular action movie audiences so that it gives a sense of fimilaraty for the viewer to the film.

I am using the flack jackets and radios as a link to military actions of the film, as the plot states that the government betrayed someone and experimented on him, the military appearance in the film suggests this to the viewers. this is to propose a question to the audience; who is he, why is this happening to him and why is the government betraying him. i feel that this will give the film a large sense of mystery and entice people to watch the film.

  

The next element i am going to discus is the appearance of a campfire in the trailer. i wanted to use this at the start of the trailer to give the main character a sense of hope around him, this is found from connotations of the fire, in addition to a large feeling of loneliness to focus the audience on the main character at the start of the trailer.

The first shot is a high angle which adds to the sense of loneliness by showing the character surrounded by darkness with only one spot of light given by the campfire. However i wanted to give the campfire more meaning and mystery, so just as the viewer feels he knows the meaning of it i want to change its meaning to make the audience wanting to find out more of what it could mean. to represent this for the last shot of the campfire it will go out into just embers, this will symbol's the development in the film's the main character loses hope and fall into darkness.

in addition to the constant focus of mystery i want from the trailer i also want the film to have connotations of a  representation of family unity. this is show by images of the main character's family pictures in a flash backs at the start of the trailer. in these flash backs these picture will be broken representing a breaking of family unity.