Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Inspiration from other trailers


Before starting our storyboard, we looked to other trailers for inspiration.
In our film we have included a romance sub-plot of a love triangle which runs alongside the apocalypse and survivor plot. For inspiration we looked at trailer’s for teenage romance films such as ’10 Things I Hate About You’ (1999) and found that the romantic hero and heroine’s story is set up in generally the same format.

At the beginning of the trailer the guy is seen looking longingly at the girl. Later there is a shot-reverse-shot shown of them looking at each other and then near the end of the trailer they are seen together in a romantic way in the same shot. We have followed these conventions which our shots depicting Sam and Sebastian. We have also followed the convention of having a heterosexual relationship with the man who does the longing after the girl as this complies with both Laura Mulvey’s ‘Male Gaze’ and the patriarchal society within which our plot is set.

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