Evaluation question 1

In order to answer this question I shall look at some key moments in my trailer (as shown in these screen shots) and see if they relate to a real movie trailer in terms of mise-en-scene, design, framing ext. and then see if my product conforms or challenges the forms and conventions of real media products. When I look at these nine screen shots I feel that I have strongly conformed to the traditional horror movie trailer. Our use of dark lighting, high angel camera shots, venetian blind effects and colours are all too common in horror movies, I felt that by doing this we were considerably more likely to make a better horror trailer as there doesn’t seem to be much point in challenging the conventions of a horror trailer when the horror genre is so well defined.
What makes teaser trailers different from theatrical trailers is that they are designed to “Tease” the release of a film and try not to give too much of the films plot away (or in some cases none of the plot what so ever) and they are usually released long before the final product is released. Often footage used in a trailer is not even used in the final cut of the movie. The narrative structure of a teaser trailer is usually very vague more often than not teaser trailers have zero dialogue. The creator of the teaser trailer is trying to make something to capture the attention of as many people as possible in order to do this they have to follow the general conventions of a film trailer to a certain extent (people like to see what they are used to) but also push the boundaries of what they can produce (But people also want to see something new)
The biggest thing that makes out trailer different to most trailers is that most Hollywood trailers mention the actors who will be in the film via on screen text, we felt that by doing this in our trailer would be of little point as our trailer doesn’t contain anyone famous and by putting our names in the trailer throughout the trailer would seem pessimistic.
The way sound has been used in our trailer differs from most trailers. Whereas most trailers simply have non-diegetic music ours had both non-diegetic music and an eerie voice over which is supposed to be part of the films plot. By doing this we broke away from the traditional horror movie trailer somewhat and also made a considerably better trailer.