Narrative Ideas

Narrative Ideas:



· The man sitting in his chairs as the camera slowly pulls back



· Flashbacks to the war,







Before he goes to war, smartly dress. Says goodbye loving to his Gf



After the war, scruff. Just saying bye to Gf



When he snaps, smartly dressed again. Saying nothing to her







Takes pills



After he stops taking the films







Girlfriend talks over (Asynchronous dialogue)







Photo of the family = happy together, pulls away to show the real family tied up together







Getting equipment ready







His talking about his mate Charlie (Think about Percy Warner)







Setting six form centres, making it a call centre as it is stressful







Him watching the news about a missing person, flashback to him kidnapping them.












In order:



Before he goes to war, smartly dress. Says goodbye loving to his Gf



Girlfriend talks over (Asynchronous dialogue)



After the war, scruff. Just saying bye to Gf



Takes pills



Girlfriend talks over (Asynchronous dialogue)



When he snaps, smartly dressed again. Saying nothing to her



After he stops taking the pills















This is a draft of our ideas that we are piecing together to make our film. Some ideas we have is one scene is that some people are playing a war game and a bomb sound goes off and this triggers a flashback which is a tragic one, this is what triggers the individual to snap and start kidnapping people. It also talks about taking pills this is a common contrast of real life because most people have mental problems that need to be controlled at it shows through the trailer that missed day of taking them can trigger little things that turn into big things. This will draw the audience in because they are feeling sympathetic to the main character because all he needs to do is take his pills and he will be fine.

1st Draft of Asynchronous dialog

This is the dialogue that used over the first part of the story, to help set up the films tone early on, without giving anything away, this is done by giving

 

Asynchronous scene 1 - 4:

Psychiatrist:

Start from the being again.

 

Girlfriend/Kathrin:

It was all going so well…

 

Psychiatrist:

Until?

 

Girlfriend/Kathrin:

…Until the incident.

 

Psychiatrist:

That was a long time ago. Do remember he does have a stressful job; it’s understandable that he’ll be a bit different, but it’ll pass. I won’t put it to that…

…as long as he is taking his medication

 

Girlfriend/Kathrin:

That’s the problem I don’t know if he is, I found half empty packed in the bin.

 

Showing their face

Psychiatrist:

Where is he now?

 

 

This is our basis of script, it is asynchronous dialog to add some mystery to the characters speaking and it gets the audience guessing who this may be through the different scenes that is occurring. Whilst this dialog is playing scenes will be played over it this is to show the audience what is going on while there is speech and make them piece together what is going on this is the mystery that attracts the audience in.

Kiss the girl analysis

Kiss the girl


Mise en scene is strongly used in this film trailer. Within the first 3 seconds it fades from red to dark images this entails that there is going to be death involved. it connotes that red means death and anger. this occurs throughout the trailer of flashes of red, this is to show death to the audience and then after flashes of red in scene it flashes read then goes to a murder scene. Red can also resemble evil. this can mean in the trailer that bad things will be happening. camera work is very unique because in the trailer there is lots of close ups which is meant to make the audience feel costriphobic, as this plays on the emotions of the viewer. what is very clever with this trailer is the editing and the sound. In one scene what occurs is that white flashes occur to the sound of a camera being taken the it converts to a scene of a camera with someone forensic individual is taking pictures.


iconography elements in a crime thriller consist off weapons (kinves or guns), police tape, forensic teams, police officers, cut out newspapers of important information, court room for an interview of a someone that escaped. with all these elements above it shows in the film trailer. this is to start to show the audience what os going to occur throughout the trailer and then the film.

silence of the lambs

Firstly, as the trailer starts off the viewers will begin to hear a non diegetic sound of a certain low tone soundtrack which slowly turns into more fast pace music that is more earey music which starts to play on the mind of the audience. This will immediately begin to inform the viewers/audience or they will work out that the the rest of the trailer has a dark tale. The sound is also mirrored with sudden flashes of Hannibol Lector who is played by Anthony Hopkins. The close up of his face presents his character as very dangerous and foreshadowing his role as gruesome and conniving man this is show in the trailer as one part hows a detective saying ‘don’t let him get inside your head’ this shows that he is conning and very dangerous. A close up of Hannibol's smile looks very scary and suggests his character should not be trusted. This intrigues the audience to find out more about his sinister character and the deadly crime he has committed.

The first use of diegetic dialogue is when Hannibal asks "Do you spook easily starling?” as you watch the film trailer you are quickly informed that the film will have a horror and thriller aspects. This will make the audience to and figure out what is occurring and then this means anticipation is occurring then it leads to building tension. The question he asks could also be directed towards the viewers almost inviting them in to his crazy world and also braking the 3rd person act by speaking directly to the audience.

At 0:09- 0:11 Starling is locked into a mental hospital prisoner ward with Hannibal. when that gate closes it can signify that as soon as she has stepped inside that cell with Hannibal it can mean that there is no turning back which can lead to a mysterious act for the audience to follow and then a over the shoulder shot is used which connotes the idea that she is carefully being watched by guards to make sure nothing happens and then this could mean even the audience who feel they are a part of those who are spectating her. Making the viewers feel engaged and even scared for her. Also you can see her facial expressions as she is a rookie FBI agent and has no experience in working in the field she is also scared and that plays on the heart strings of the viewers as it makes them feel sorry for her.

Furthermore, there is a point of view shot of starling walking through the prisoner ward. Which makes the audience sympathize with her character because her job is very risky and life threatening. Which also makes the audience support her character. The shot of Starling walking also shows the audience that she is walking into the unknown, unaware of what will await her. A night vision camera shot is emerged in the scene at it is show as a high angle and what this does is that its meant to portray the character who is Starling as being vulnerable and weak.

the trailer also uses the mise en scene aspect very well. This is done by the setting alongside clothing and props. To establish the prison environment the criminal Hannibal is wearing blue-ish grey overalls. This will immediately tell the audience that he is a threat because its set in a prison and he’s behind the bars. Sterling looks very formal often wearing suits, with a badge to inform everyone of her status and authority. The prison is set in a dark setting underground, this may make the audience feel apart of the film and it my suggest to the audience something bad is going to occur.  Newspapers are some of the props used to show the popularity of Hannibol, this is shown in the film inside his cell it shows the audience Hannibol is looking up on himself as he likes the attention. It helps with keeping up with his story.

Zodiac Film trailer analysis

Film trailer

Zodiac

Use of voice overs

in the film trailer there is a voice overlaid, of the detective, at the beginning of the trailer. the voice overlaid occurs over the footage to help to tell the story to the viewer, this means it can draw the audience in and then they will want to watch the film. This is done throughout the trailer so that the audience is always engaged. Various clips are selected from the film which have the characters talking and then it goes to jump cuts of specific things that have been mentioned for example when a character is talking about finger prints it goes to a picture of finger prints this is called asynchronous  dialog, another example is  the antagonist has written a puzzle to them in greek morse code or cryptic messages and one of the characters reads out one of the puzzles and it says that ' i like killing people because man is the most dangerous animal of all' with that occurring it helps explain the narrative.

Camera Shots

The camera shot types that were successfully used by Fincher made it easier to identify the genre of the trailer towards the audience this was done by using shot types like close ups and point of view shots. For example when the case of the murder was introduced to the audience this was the scene when a puzzle was given to the main character it showed a close up of the puzzle and then the rest of the information was also captured. This was all done deliberately by Fincher because meant that the audience had the responsibility to try and solve that puzzle with the actors in the thriller.  This alerts a feeling of reassurance within the audience that confirms that they are watching a thriller genre trailer.

Mise En Scene

The mise en scene in the Zodiac Trailer definitely worked well when conforming to the conventions. The lighting was dark and gloomy which set up the scene and made it clear that the events going to take place in this film were not light and jolly, but dark and depressing and it also meant it wasting to be mysterious because with these types of lighting it plays a earey feeling and thrillers are mysterious so the lighting had to be dark and dull to drawn in the target audience. The pathetic fallacy would make the audience get into the mood that this trailer is trying to create. While it isn’t a very light one. that they are trying to foresee. For example a dark sky, would symbolise a bad event about to take place, as it is covering the city and this suggests to the audience that the event is going to have an underlying effect on the rest of the city as the tragic events will be on the news and will occupy the police of the city. Therefore it is clear that the weather has a direct affect on the mood of the characters in the trailer/ film.

Mood Board

Mood board

I have decided to produce a mood board of the sub-genre we want to use in our film trailer, so that we can explore and identify the possible props, atmospheres, settings and characters we will need to include in our film trailer.

Seven

Film trailer conventions

Range of settings

using the ranger of setting inside a film trailer will get the audience to being to think what this film is about and what type of film is it going to be. With seven you can clearly see by the three mainly used settings on the police office, crime scenes and morgue. these three key scenes help the audience piece together what's unravelling in front of their eyes. this will begin to play act on their brain and start to piece together all the scenes and will then it will solve what is what and what is occurring, so to sum up the use of range of settings is that it plays on the mind and gives out what the film is all about and where it will be set and what type of mood it will be setting.








star power

In every film trailer star power is the most used thing inside a film trailer. the reason for this is because if the star power wasn't in then no one would watch that film because the actors are the ones that bring in more fans in. sometimes film trailers play on male gaze to gain more male viewers. for example hall pass use this to draw more of a male audience in. star power is massive because the actors have fan bases and if they see there actor is in an upcoming film there will go and watch the trailer to get the gist of it and then also to just watch there favourite actor in action. for example in this one Morgan Freeman is the main star power used, this means the Morgan freeman fan base will watch this film just because of him.