We began question 1 (group answer) of the evaluation by sitting down and writing very basic notes about how our teaser trailer, conformed, developed and challenged genre conventions. We thought about, narrative, genre, mise-en-scene, camera shots and angles, location, lighting etc. To help remind us we looked back through our blog at some of the research and original ideas we had.
Convention: Narrative through camera and mise en scene rather than dialogue, teaser trailers have limited dialogue because there so short.
Conventions: camera shots; close ups (engage with characters, conveys emotions), p.o.v. Handheld
Conventions: mise en scene: costume and house and props, normal middle class, big white empty house. Make up, bloody
Conventions: genre; one location, isolated
Conventions: lighting, light when good dark when bad, contrast.
Conventions: editing; fast paced
Challenged: most teasers start with equilibrium then suddenly go to disequilibrium, whereas our trailer starts with disequilibrium and it snowballs.
Challenge/develop: no dialogue at all, no v.o.
We had originally decided to make a video blog, however we weren’t all comfortable about being in front of the camera, therefore thought a podcast style audio would be much better. Instead of writing a script, which would have made us sound boring and robotic, we used our notes as guidance and talked as though in conversation, so it was natural and we could bounce off each other thoughts and ideas. I think this idea worked really well because it got across all our individual opinions as well as the group consensus. Also, we hope it will sound intesrting and authentic to the listener.
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