Project

We have chosen the teaser trailer for the media coursework as we have some experience from the AS project of film making and also a trailer will allow our project to be experimented with in terms of genre and conventions along with it.
Today we were shown a trailer and identified the conventions needed in a trailer in order for it to be seen as a certain genre from an audience’s point of view.
We need to look at the type of text in a trailer such as in a horror red connotes blood where as in a comedy a big bright white may be more effective in the audience identifying which genre it is. Also need to look at the use of editing such as slow motion which can have a constant effect on the image the audience receive of the trailer and how attracted they are to go and see the film. The music also connotes the genre such as suspense music will be more suited to a horror than a comedy film. Therefore for the trailer we must look when decided what genre to go with, how researched trailers have certain connotations within it to be a certain genre.