Soundtrack Research: Non Diegetic Soundtrack Option 3 (The Kwirks)

Soundtrack Research: Non Diegetic Option 2 (The Kwirks)

Soundtrack Research: Non Diegetic- Option 1 (The Kwirks)

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. 

Prop: Letter and Pictures

This envelope with the characters name written on it and a range of printed off pictures was used as a prop for a scene where the stock female character opens the letter and sees these photographs of the male character with a different girl (a third character) and assumes that he is cheating on her with this other girl. I simply took these pictures on my phone and then printed them off on normal paper because it's not meant to look like professional photography, it's meant to look amateur and like someone has done it sneakily and in an attempt to catch the characters out.

Re-Filming: Costumes: Male Actor

 The previous post explains why I had so many costume changes planned for the scenes that were either being re-filmed or new shots that I decided to add in. The pictures show the various costumes that my male protagonist character wore for each different scene. Again, there isn't much change as the t shirt and the jeans are the same for all of them, however the jacket is different, therefore displaying this subtle difference and indicating that the scenes/shots were meant to be taken from different sections of the overall film, as the most exciting or important narrative parts.

Re-Filming: Costumes- Female Actress

 The idea of having so many costume changes for different shots was so that each scene/shot looked like it had been filmed at a different time. Therefore, looking like it was from different parts of the film. This is conventional of all trailers as trailers take shots from each section of the film so that all the key narrative points are shown and so that the trailer is exciting enough to draw in audience attention and to make them anticipate the films release. Therefore I attempted to control the mise en scene as best as I could when re-filming yesterday. The pictures show the range of costumes the female character wore for yesterdays brief re-filming shoot. Although she is wearing the same jeans in all of them, the differences in the clothing on the top half, the added accessories e.g. scarf and the minor changes to her hair, show subtle differences indicating that the character's style and fashion sense is the same throughout, but her costume is different to represent a difference in time.