Trailer Presentation

Gelsomina De Lucia

Romantic Comedy• Convention : Forbidden love/ someone or

something coming in-between the relationship.• For example in ‘Your Sisters Sister’, the sister is the

cause of what separates her and her best friend.• However, in the A2 production called, ‘What If’, it is

the element of time travel which separates the couple.

Romantic Comedy• Inspiration: With the genre – in general – I found the fonts

influential because they had meaning to the films such as in the romantic comedy film ‘The Oranges’ it is such a plain orange screen which is symbolic for the film.

• The fonts in romantic comedies are always relevant to the storyline and are not over the top such as the cliché blood dripping fonts in horror films.

Sci- Fi/Thriller• Convention: Something or someone interrupts the normal

society of every day.• For example, in the ‘Red Dawn’ trailer, the government seems

to interrupt to calmness and normality at the beginning.

• Inspiration: I find how the sci-fi/thriller genre explores the unpredictable becoming real such as aliens.

• Additionally, what I find influential is that it sometimes manipulate everyday elements such as in the movie trailer ‘Alienate’.

• In this part of the trailer, the voice over says, “Don’t drink the water” and the shot shows an effect of it.

Sci- Fi/Thriller

Drama

• Convention : Taking a realistic situation and highlighting something positive out of it.

• For example, in ‘Welcome to Riley's’, it explores the situation about prostitution amongst teenagers and the concept of mourning over a child.

Drama • Influential: What I find influential throughout the drama

genre is that the characterisations through MES such as costume and makeup are realistic which makes the audience have a connection with the characters.

Horror/Supernatural• Convention: Something which is not human is normally

causes the horror.• Stereotypically, it is usually ghosts and demons such as in the

A2 trailer, ‘Paralysis’.• However, this is slowly changing.• For example, in the trailer ‘The Pyramids’, its mummies.

Horror/Supernatural

• Inspiration: Horror storylines are now becoming more based on true stories which is more scary.

• What I find influential is that the horror genre is starting to in-cooperating history such as in the new film, ‘As Above, So Below’ which involves the catacombs under Paris because it highlights – in a scary way – how society was mad.