Narrative Structure

My trailer begins with a girl swinging alone on a park swing on a rainy day. This is an enigma code as it immediately makes the audience question certain elements of the shot. It raises narrative questions and sets up the scene so the audience are unaware of what will happen next. In this case they are asking themselves questions like "why is this teenage girl alone in a park?" or "why is she swinging so slowly, is she upset?" 

The shot where the male character first appears and walks over and talks to the female is the action code in the trailers narrative structure. This is because it sets up the story and leads the plot on because it is obvious that something is going to happen between the two characters. The audience are aware that something will happen but they aren't sure what or when so it leaves them interested and anticipating. Both enigma and action codes are stereotypical of trailers as they are designed to set up a  scene and then lead the narrative on smoothly and clearly so that the audience know roughly when the key parts of the narrative will occur, but the plot isn't completely given away. Therefore, I have tried to follow this convention by including these codes in my trailer.