Trailers: What Not To Do
C Me Dance
A Trailer must follow the genre stereotypes. For example: a kids film must have happy, light music which excites the children. The trailer opens with soft, uplifting music and dramatic flowing titles. The audience presume its a feel good film about a dancer achieving her dream. No. After many cross fades and unnecessary indents such as 'From a Gentle Soul', the film drops the bombshell that the young, healthy dancer has been struck with terminal cancer.
Despite the sad yet surpriseing news the trailer continues with inspiring music and soft titles. Despite the lack of 'acting' the plot is made relatively clear. Until the father drops this iconic line: 'It's as if God has chosen you, and its that's the truth, man this is going to tick off the devil'. Then bang, from feel good to possession horror.
This is supposedly signified by the chaining of the font of the titles from white to red and a poorly timed 'clash'. The trailer then continues by revealing a man, who i presume is 'The Devil' as the girl claims in a nearly believable tone 'Its him!'.
The clip then reverts to a montage, which shows various unexplained situations, with editing that could be questioned. Such as the use of four cross fades in the space of twenty seconds.
What an amazing trailer. The lines can be blurred between genres Sam, but I agree that this film doesn't seem to really know what it is. Interesting stuff. You need to start posting more regularly, by now I would expect that you had the posts about designing a poster and from the activities on mise en scene that we did in lessons. This blog is currently at C grade.
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