TRAILER.
The trailer starts off with a close-up of Scott’s face with slow, melodic, romantic music in the background. He looks at something, and then a motivated cut shows the audience that he is looking at a girl. The screen splits into two; on one half it has a close-up of Scott’s face looking in love, on the other side it has a mid shot of the girl looking at him. Someone walks past, obstructing the view of the camera. When they have gone the camera has zoomed in quite a lot and the girl is looking away from him. An insert cut on the Scott’s side of the screen shows him squeezing a plastic cup, out of nervousness. Then it cuts to a very brief two shot of them both, the briefness of this shot compared to all of the others previous to this one is very noticeable.
The words “Have you ever met someone” show up on the screen. An over-the-shoulder shot of Scott staring at her and a close-up of them holding hands, show them falling in love. The words “You love so much” appear on the screen to continue the sentence and making the audience want to see the rest of it. It cuts to a two shot of them in bed together and then a close-up of her smiling, which reiterates further that they are falling in love. All of these romantic parts lead the audience into a fake sense of security making them believe that this is a stereotypical romantic comedy. But then the words “It hurts?” show up on screen and everything changes, so far the trailer has been a stereotypical romantic film and has had a lot of the themes of that genre. But after these words disappear, it all becomes faster paced and more violent.
The sudden contrast brings humour to the trailer to make the audience laugh. Straight away rock music kicks in and a fast cutting rate increases tempo, showing a montage of Scott getting beaten up. Whilst he is getting beaten up words like; “smak”, “woosh”, “thok” and “whud” show on screen, these appear to give the violence a sort of comic book effect. It cuts to a two shot of Scott and the girl on the bus; she says “You may have to defeat my seven evil exes”, cut to a screen split in to seven sections, each section depicting a different ex. The rest of the trailer is a montage of fights and violence which reflect that of a comic book.
GENRE.
The genre is romantic comedy, but not with all of the usual conventions that you would expect to see in a romantic comedy.
PLOT.
Quite a lot is revealed about the story line, the audience will have a good idea of what could and will happen in the film.
The trailer starts off with a close-up of Scott’s face with slow, melodic, romantic music in the background. He looks at something, and then a motivated cut shows the audience that he is looking at a girl. The screen splits into two; on one half it has a close-up of Scott’s face looking in love, on the other side it has a mid shot of the girl looking at him. Someone walks past, obstructing the view of the camera. When they have gone the camera has zoomed in quite a lot and the girl is looking away from him. An insert cut on the Scott’s side of the screen shows him squeezing a plastic cup, out of nervousness. Then it cuts to a very brief two shot of them both, the briefness of this shot compared to all of the others previous to this one is very noticeable.
The words “Have you ever met someone” show up on the screen. An over-the-shoulder shot of Scott staring at her and a close-up of them holding hands, show them falling in love. The words “You love so much” appear on the screen to continue the sentence and making the audience want to see the rest of it. It cuts to a two shot of them in bed together and then a close-up of her smiling, which reiterates further that they are falling in love. All of these romantic parts lead the audience into a fake sense of security making them believe that this is a stereotypical romantic comedy. But then the words “It hurts?” show up on screen and everything changes, so far the trailer has been a stereotypical romantic film and has had a lot of the themes of that genre. But after these words disappear, it all becomes faster paced and more violent.
The sudden contrast brings humour to the trailer to make the audience laugh. Straight away rock music kicks in and a fast cutting rate increases tempo, showing a montage of Scott getting beaten up. Whilst he is getting beaten up words like; “smak”, “woosh”, “thok” and “whud” show on screen, these appear to give the violence a sort of comic book effect. It cuts to a two shot of Scott and the girl on the bus; she says “You may have to defeat my seven evil exes”, cut to a screen split in to seven sections, each section depicting a different ex. The rest of the trailer is a montage of fights and violence which reflect that of a comic book.
GENRE.
The genre is romantic comedy, but not with all of the usual conventions that you would expect to see in a romantic comedy.
PLOT.
Quite a lot is revealed about the story line, the audience will have a good idea of what could and will happen in the film.
You need to read this back and ensure that you are using your terms correctly, such as motivated cut rather than motivation cut. Generally this is good but you could refer to the audience response in more detail. How do you think the audience is meant to respond to the teaser for Scott Pilgrim? What does it tell the audience about the film?
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