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.
We have had 27 responses
to our questionnaire 14 of them were female responses and 13 were male
responses. This gives me an even representation from bother genders and their
views on parody and comedy films.
The number of male
responses is 13, one of them was over 20 years old but the rest were under
that. 4 out of 13 people that responded were 14 and the other 8 were 15 years
old. From the responses of question 3 and unlike the female responses there
seems to be a 50/50 ratio between people who have seen more movies that trailers
and the opposite. This could be because males are stereo typically seen playing
more games or watching more TV or internet videos.
One of the final
questions is reflecting on what aspects encourage you to watch a film. The
options were: story line character and actors, music, the tile or voice overs
People answering the question can tick multiple options. 8 out of 14 female responses said that the
story line is what attracts them to a film. 10 put of 13 male responses said
that the story line is what attracts them to watch a film. 100% of female
responses said that it is the characters and actors that attract them to a
film. In opposition to this the male response was significantly less only 7 out
of the 13 responses replied with this answer.
I feel that this was a predictable from the female responses as the
stereotypical teenage girl is more susceptible to the idea of Hollywood fandom.
However in addition, avoiding stereotypes, most big actors are renowned for
their good acting and so when they are in a film it is expected it will be good
or bad based on the actor. This fact shows that films are very reliant upon who
is cast in the film; I have taken this into consideration for our film. There
is no way we are going to be able to get a professional actor in our trailer,
so I feel it is more important to focus on factors that we can influence and
pay less attention to ones we cannot. 5 out of the 14 female responses said
that music is an important factor and only 2 out of 13 male responses said that
same, the low number of people who agreed with this suggests to me that the
music on trailers are less noticeable by people than the picture content of the
trailer. This could be because quick editing and flashing images distract the
viewer form the sound. In addition I think that the first time someone watches
a trailer they do not listen to the music altogether, except if they are
purposely listening for it. 
