More Research on Teaser Trailer, inc Plan

My partner and I researched and watched films concerning crime.  Using media theories such as Todorov- on the equilibrium and Propps theory on ‘folk’s tale’ we constructed a plan, which would be a guideline to how we are to construct our teaser trailer. The plan follows as this: -

Baring in mind that this is not our storyboard, but a plan to give us an idea on which direction we want our story to go to. We produced a flowchart that branched out to different story routes that the teaser trailer could take.



A plan on the route my storyline can go, what makes a succesful storyline?



After completing our guideline, we then decided; that we should think of our storyline, and insert it into the plan. The storyline went as this.

A middle class Caucasian girl is living ‘the life.’ A serotype of how people may perceive middle-class lifestyle to be, however the media text does not disclose the horrific life she is actually living, until we get to the scene where he dad is hurling abuse at her.  The girl is seen cowering away in fear and in self-protection Princess in distress according to Propps theory on folk’s tales.

The story then progresses to the girl meeting a boy (her love interest) and if not hero, she seems genuinely happy to escape the torment of her home, and into the arms of her ‘saviour’.  But the audience realises that she had fallen into the wrong hands. The girl’s life begins to take a turn for the worse, having taken drugs, stealing, beating up people etc…

The consequence of her actions is when she stabbed a boy during a confrontation and this lead the police to come to her house.

My partner and me are still developing the story as it might change as we progress on in our project.

I still watched and took notes of different teaser trailers. I decided to watch teaser trailers that represent stereotypical ‘blonde’ woman.

I watched ‘The Hills’ because it known to stereotype white’ blonde’ women; who are more concerned with their outer appearance and personal life than any other issues. The Hills tend to represent the middle-class and aspires. It’s presumably meant to be a reality-TV show but the filming and play tends to be too ‘doll-like’ to be real. The Hills is evidence of hyper-reality; hyper-reality is theory constructed by Jean Baudrillard’s who said that the media constructed a “mythological” model, which had no connection to the origin. Homes, relationships, lifestyle, fashion and culture have been created to form a model of a fantasy thatviewer’s aspirer to live.

Using my source youtube, I watched the trailer for The Hills- Season 6. The trailer clip used special effects, which made the main characters look taller than New York buildings. They were dressed very glamorously, and had the stereotypical look of blonde hair blue eyes, which is the ideal look of ‘western beauty.’ The girls wore pink-, which usually connotes with femininity, Barbie, doll-like and fake. Their target audience was clearly for young women, as their main focus was on beauty and fashion. 

The beginning, is a landscape of the city where the drama is representing, the city is the landscape of one of the most prestigious areas in America; presumably Hollywood.

Trailer link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EhDT2CQQ24

I then progressed to researching on film covers for one of my ancillary projects; I came across ‘Jade screen’, which had a distinctive front cover for it films magazine. It drew my attention because it was carefully architected, and eye-catching because of its complexity. It was an image of a man with two different shots merged into one, creating an odd facial expression. The media text sent a psychotic message, portraying a split personality; similar to Dr. Jekyll, a   fictional character, known for his two-sided personality disorder. The creativity was unique and use of lighting really highlighted the talent behind the image.




A small research conducted, analyzing the components of a film magazine, just to give a brief idea of how i wanted my project to go, thinking and linking any theories and concept and use of colors together.

 

Below, is an audio discussion taken between my partner and I, we discussed about our storyline and the theories and concepts behind it, click on the play button to listen of click on this link 

 



I researched also on film posters to help me with my ancillary tasks, looking at the layout and thinking of what themes i can convey that link all three of my products together.

Another research on a film poster: click image to enlarge