Emotion

For our film trailer we have decided to emote  certain feelings throughout as we feel that this will capture the essence of a social realism film.  We will do this by sound, camera angles, miss-en-scene and editing.

The setting that we have chosen is various locations around the London area.  From prior research, we have looked into different settings of London and what type of shots have been used to show the atmosphere.  The areas that we have decided to feature are:

• council estate
• cafe
• church
• underground/train stations
• high streets
• park
• tunnel

Sound:

From our previous blog post we decided to use non-diegetic sound as we feel a soundtrack will allow us to capture the feeling of the character without her having to speak.  However, we will write a script in which we will have the actress speaking in some places throughout the trailer. The aspect that we need to be careful about is making sure that the film trailer does not look like a music video.  Some ideas include:

• police sirens
• cars driving past/car horns
• train sounds
• train announcements
• coins dropping
• actress dialogue
• captions/credits - telling the story

 

Camera Angles:

Throughout the trailer, we will use a variety of camera shots that will capture the actress's emotion.  To do this we will use close-ups, medium shots, low and high angle shots and establishing shots.  We feel the establishing shots will capture the setting and also the atmosphere around her.  At the beginning, we have chosen to include London as the setting because it is heavily associated with social realism.

Mise-en-Scene:

We have researched into the types of costumes that we think would fit the character of our actress, and our reasons behind these costumes are stated in previous posts.  Also, the use of props are very important in our film trailer, as it symbolises our character in a way that grabs the audiences attention.

Editing:

When editing our footage, we want to promote deeper thought into an every day occurrence of homelessness.  It will give an insight into what they have to go through everyday and how they have to deal with it.  The tempo of the trailer will build up towards the end, using fast cuts.  We will introduce fade in and fade outs in between shots at the beginning to show a contrast.  We will be able to show binary opposition because of how we are going to costume her and the life she leads compared to the general public in London. From the trailers we have looked at, this is used regularly to encourage an audience to watch a film.