Trailer in-depth Analysis: 2

Structural conventions: This trailer establishes itself by eight or nine short clips, all long shots, shown with a black screen in the middle. This lasts roughly thirty seconds, and this fits the conventions of an establishing scene.

Camera shot, angle, movement: Range of angles are captured, and a range of shots including long shots and close-ups, and one extra long shot. This provides a nice range of things for the audience to watch and therefore keeps them interested.

Editing: There is lots of cuts between clips and black edits at the start. Some sound bridges between the different sections of the trailer. There is some smooth transitions between one shot to the other

Sound element: Non-diegetic soundtrack is fairly high paced and energetic, makes the audience more interested and fits audience pleasures, again meeting the typical conventions of a film trailer. There is also a non-diegetic voiceover in most of the trailer, informing the viewers and also filling them in with quotes from the film.

Interviews: None are featured in this because documentaries tend to have these because they are real life and capture reality as much as possible.

Titles: No statistics included, the titles are informing the audience on who made and distributed the film. They are the credits and run throughout the film trailer, on and off. They are in a fairly normal font, something probably like times new roman, This doesn't divert attention from the rest of the film trailer.

Genre: this is a coming-of-age story. Similar to my previous genre analysed, this features the growing up both physically and psychologically of a man. This is a very empathetic genre, and makes the audience relate profusely and therefore bond with the characters.

Trailer in-depth analysis 3

Trailer for 'The perks of being a wallflower'.
This film is based on the story about a guy called Charlie who is initially an outcast in his first year of high school, and then he makes two goo friends who take him in and introduce him to people.

Structural conventions: Starts with slow fades between shots, and then speeds up as the music gets faster.

Camera shot, angle, movement: Establishing extra long shot showing a city at night, sets the narrative for being a relaxed film because of the non-diegetic sound in the background. Also sets the narrative to show where the film is set. A medium shot is near the start of the trailer, and it is focused over the shoulder of Charlie. This makes him seem weak and vulnerable as the angle is based quite high, which fits the conventions because he is seen as a subordinate to other characters in the narrative. This is followed by an extreme close-up of his typewriter and some of the writing, this makes the audience really concentrate on what he is typing. Some of the shots in this trailer are used to help to try and establish relationships between the characters. Especially the medium shots as they show the body language and emotions of the characters.

Editing: Slow fades from one shot to another at the beginning. There are a number of sound bridges from one voiceover to another, or from the non-diegetic soundtrack. The pace of the editing reflects upon how many things Charlie has to deal with a the start of the film.

Sound element: Uplifting music which is a non-diegetic soundtrack. This establishes the narrative for the genre being a dramatic romance, which is a coming-of-age story and it is also comedic. Establishes the narrative by being stereotypical happy music. There is also some non-diegetic voiceovers, informing the viewers on the narrative.

Titles: These are used to show something to the audience, for example who made and distributed the film. This is done in the credits. They are a very good advertising tool because the viewer must be focused on the slide in order to read what it says, and therefore fully commit themselves to concentrate on the trailer.

Mise en Scene: The type of clothes the characters are wearing in this trailer make the audience aware of what era this film was set in, and also what kind of weather i going on in the narrative, which hints towards the time of year. For example, the fact they are wearing scarves and sweaters (shown in the long hot) suggests the weather is cold and it is therefore winter and around christmas time.

Genre: This is a coming of age film, which also incorporates humour and drama and romance. It focuses on the growth both psychologically and physically of a youth into early adulthood. A min characteristic of a film in this genre is that is relies hugely on emotion rather than action, and this is apparent even in the trailer.

Group Meeting

Me and my teammate Sophie have met up and had a meeting concerning the mise en scene, editing and shots. We have decided within the filming at Castle Quay is the place that will contain the vast range of shots, because when someone is sat down being interviewed there isn't exactly a wide range of shots that can be done! This means most of our shots will have to be filmed within the shopping centre. Within this, we will have a worm's eye view of people's feet to show the business of the centre. to also include a diversity of shots, we will include long shots, close-ups, and we will incorporate some panning and tracking shots to include movement, and do these a few times in order to ensure there is no shaky shots.
For these, over the next few weeks we will construct a rough storyboard in order to have an idea to work upon. This will help to decide what order in which to conduct the documentary, and what will work the best to fit the conventions of the genre we are going into as well as we can slightly risk going outside of the conventions in order to make a good film.
We have agreed on filming two to three audience reactions and reviews of our initial documentary that we filmed in summer, because that will provide a helpful insight into what we would need to do to make it as effective and informative a documentary as possible.

What conventions do documentaries share?

There are many conventions that documentaries share.
Voiceover: these will typically be informative, may include interview answers, answers that have been prompted from a question. This will be on a fairly specific topic. This will make the audience feel as if they have very specific knowledge. Authoritative voices tend to be used, to show the power of the filmmaker.
Footage: This footage will generally include lots of seemingly raw footage, It has been made to look like it has been made and barely edited, because this gives it an edge that means it is more realistic than a trailer or something that has been touched up a lot.
Use of titles: These are also used for an informative use. Usually titles within documentaries are used for statistics and filling people in on information not used in a voiceover. It is a good way of conveying and reiterating information.
Interviews: provide different insights into the thing being captured. Usually filmed in a close up or mid shot. Graphics are conventionally used to anchor who the person is and their relevance to being in the documentary.
There are six main types of documentaries. Expository means it doesn't follow the conventions of normal documentaries. Observational documentaries focus on just using one camera in order to capture the world, and this footage tends to be much more raw. Participatory documentaries include means the filmmaker is evident in the video. Reflexive ones are based on real life moments and objects, but are based more on opinions rather than real life facts. Performative documentaries are based mainly on emotions, and the filmmaker tends to react to the matter in hand. Lastly, poetic documentaries are a subjective representation of reality.
The lighting in different documentaries are different for different reasons. Low key lighting will be used for social mood and realism, medium key lighting will be used for idealistic realism and high key lighting will be used for documentary realism.
There are single stranded narratives which are non-linear. Normal cuts are used, so there aren't fancy over-edited shots because they are kept as raw as possible usually to keep straight to the point and are used just to capture what is going on.
This genre is good because it allows people to express their points of views and opinions as well as an illustration of the truth in a way which is flexible yet understood by audiences who have become accustomed to the conventions of the genre.

Trailer In-Depth Analysis

The company that released the trailer for Fast and Furious 7 typically release trailers before their films come out. These films are usually very fast paced and full of excitement. /this is what the audience look for when viewing their film or a trailer for the film.

Structural Conventions: These shots vary between different shots very quickly, and these fit the conventions of a thrilling film because it is very fast-paced and therefore keeps the audience interested. As the other films of this genre, there are lots of tracking shots which follow the cars as they drive off. There are also lots of long shots and some over the shoulder shots. The protagonist is seen easily as being the one who saves the others from the car crash, and this is shown through the use of long shots and panning shots to capture in everything that is happening.

Camera Shot, Angle, Movement: The shots used in this trailer is mid shots, close ups, establishing shots which are also panning shots. There is a dramatic over-the-shoulder shot between two characters, that seems to suggest a power imbalance. This is shown from a slightly high angle shot.

Editing: The editing is very fast paced between different shots and narratives. This builds tension within the different shots and keeps the audience watching it and not getting distracted.

Sound element: The non-diegetic soundtrack is fast paced, which keeps in sync with the pace of the shots that have been edited. There is a range of non-diegetic voiceovers and a soundtrack, and there is also a lot of diegetic sounds, which fits well with the narrative because there is a lot of cars.

Interviews: there is no interviews in this video as it doesn't document anything, it is a dramatic advertisement for an upcoming film at the time. Documentaries are much more likely to contain interviews, and the only types of trailers that would have interviews would be subverting a usual film connotation.

Titles: There is a lot of different types of titles, most are advertising the producers and distributors of the film, but there is actually the real title of the film,

Genre: The genre for the film is established through the use of slow-motion long shots showing the cars and the guns, and this makes the genre established because usual thriller films are shown with things like that.

Moodboard: Target Audience

Pitch for A2 Coursework Film

Me and my A2 classmate, Sophie Tyacke-Norton, have decided to make a documentary for our media coursework for A2. We have already made the short documentary about teenagers shopping, and this means we have more ideas about what to do for the actual final documentary. We aim to make it around four to five minutes long, on the same topic on the other documentary, but we will make it much more in-depth and use many more statistics. To find out what people in our target audience (teenagers to young adults) would enjoy watching in a documentary such as the one we are making, we are going to film people's reactions and reviews of the documentary we have already made. This will help us to realise what could be improved upon for the new one, and also what was good in the old one and so we could find out what themes to continue into the new documentary. We will aim to film this over the period of a couple of weeks, and then use five to six weeks to find statistics, edit the film together and take out anything we don't find useful for our opening. Our audience feedback will take place before we start to film the documentary.
We have asked around and found a few people who are happy to be interviewed for the film, and this will take place in Sophie's house so we wouldn't need to get permission from any industry's. The actual filming of people shopping will probably take place in castle quay in banbury, in which case we will need to get signed permission to film there. We will also film in the high street in Banbury, which we don't need permission for as it is a public place and so therefore we don't need permission from any professional bodies in order to film there.
The aim of this documentary is to inform people on teenager's shopping and spending habits, and we think it will be a fairly universally interesting documentary because it has bits that appeal to a wide variety of people. By doing this, hopefully we will have a lot of people wanting to watch this. Along the way, we will show what we have already made to people and film their reviews and this will help us to improve the film.
The typography within this film will be the titles for the film and the statistics, and these will be done in a fairly simple font in order to keep the attention on the shot itself and not the font. The logistics to make this film seem good at the moment because we have a lot of people interested in being interviewed, an easily accessible place to film our main shots in a variety of angles and editing is easily accessible from school. We can use various books in the library and the internet to find our statistics, but we can also form our own when we find out information from our interviewees.

Trailer Analysis

Here is the film trailer for the film 'The Lion King', released by Disney in 1994. It was rated a PG. the target audience for this film would be ages 3-16, with a secondary audience being adults that either enjoy children's movies (animated films) or someone accompanying someone watching this film. This trailer starts with credits of Disney, who produced and distributed this film. This establishes the trailer and lets the audience know it will be a positive, uplifting film before they have even seen it because Disney has the reputation of releasing positive films.
The trailer itself begins with an establishing shot of a sunset, and then goes onto a variety of angles and shots of animals doing different things. The fast-paced shots keep the audience interested because they have to stay focused in order to keep up with what is happening. The facial expressions portrayed by the characters in the opening few scenes set the narrative for the rest of the trailer, because everyone is seemingly very happy and uplifting and this is shown by lots of smiles.
This trailer fits lots of codes and conventions of trailers made, because the trailer is slowly built up with lots of different shots, and similar paced non-diegetic sound. It contains a fairly simple, but engaging narrative.
In relation to short films, this trailer contains some suspense which keeps the audience engaged. This would be apparent in any effective film opening, film trailer, short film or documentary. Matching non-diegetic music pace with the pace of the shots is always something that is effective, The genre of this film is established through the narrative, because everything seems very positive, and the animation certainly lends itself to obviously being a film for children or young teenagers. The happy faces show in the shots is designed to be recognisable, and this gives pleasure to audience because a lot of the time someone will choose to watch a film for the simple familiarity of it. A number of smooth edits have been made to transition from one shot to another, and this done by fading from one scene to another.