How has your production been informed by the research undertaken? (narrative)

Narrative:

Our trailer; TheCut has been informed by a number of research taken as we had to undergo a research investigation into a certain criteria such as Genre, Narrative and Representation. Our trailer had been informed mainly by NARRATIVE as a majority of the group had selected the question, my question was; An analysis of the Narrative Structure and editing techniques of two Thriller; Run Lola Run and Memento through the examination of key scenes. ). I have achieved my aim as I have now structured up the set of events to arrange my thriller trailer in as I have achieved my aim in finding out that now all films follow the Classical Hollywood Cinema, as mainly Thrillers don’t and they typically consist of a complicated narrative structure which is now part of a thriller convention. Thus, in order to follow the codes and conventions of my thriller trailer, I must represent my shots in non-chronological order (Run Lola Run) or even reverse-order (Memento), either way; they both consist of the thriller convention. Another key fact that I learnt was that trailers tell a story of a movie in a highly condensed fashion that has a maximum appeal. Traditionally, most trailers have a three act structure, act 1 being the beginning (Equilibrium) – which lays out the setting of the story, Act 2 being the middle which drives the story further (disequilibrium) and usually ends with a dramatic climax (Resolution) – This was all conjured up by Todorov’s theory of narrative which suggested that the trailer can imply some symbolic music, either a recognizable song or even an instrumental piece to dramatise the ending – the last act or trailers usually consist of a visual montage of powerful and emotional moments of the films, the most partial scenes of course are entailed within the film’s trailer – and also may include a cast run – a list of star that could help sell the movie further in terms of fan base and recognition.

Here are a few trailers which do NOT FOLLOW this 3 act structure within it’s narrative;

Genre:

Although, I never studied the question of genre, I do realise how much effect it does have on the trailer, as a whole. No matter which genre you choose; one must make sure it coincide's with it's own personal time and space, through it's iconography (things your recognise with the genre; For Instance...

• HORROR = Murderer, Haunted House, Lonely Victims, fatal weapons and death.( ^^ Scream, The Grudge, Lovely Bones, Dancer in the Dark, Funny Games U.S.)
• MUSICAL = Numbers throughout, Happy and Lively Cast, Bright Cinematography and Mise-En-Scene, Plenty of Lighting and extravagantly colourful costume! ( ^^ High School Musical, Dancer in the Dark, Hairspray, Singin' in the Rain and Grease)
• ROMCOM = Romantic plot, a couple, pursuit of happiness or love, ordinary settings, simple plot, usually one is not intersted in the other, etc. (^^ EG: Paperheart, 500 Days of Summer, 50 First dates and Valentine's Day!)

In relation to OUR trailer, we have consisted it with a Thriller genre; which usually must mean we have to include iconography which relates to the Thriller genre; Crimes, psychological harm or distress, a general theme of identity - we have used all of these conventions of our genre along with the iconography. Janet Staiger - a well known theorist for representing issues based around cultural issues; gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity. She also followed the rule of Mise-En-Scene which consisted of lighting, costume, props and figure movement. Now, in our trailer we have followed other trailers with the same genre along with the same use of mise-en-scene (costume - normal, everyday clothing, lighting - dark yet inspiring, figure movement and body - quite fast yet very common like everyday behaviour. Staiger's theory was to establigh a "naturalistic approach" to film and TV - we have done the same as, from other inspiring trailers such as Nowhere Boy, Precious, Shifty and Brick follow the same form of mise-en-scene;

Representation:

Usually, the form of represenation is highly important as it establishes what the film is trying to signify - in our scenario, we are simply representing, British Actors in the form of an Independent film, and here are some other films who have done similarly;