Theatrical
In comparison to the teaser trailer the choice of music is a lot more suited to what we are seeing on screen, whereas the teaser trailer uses music that is contrapuntal to what we are seeing on screen, I think this makes a drastic change to what the audience feels emotionally, there is a much more sinister sense to the film trailer. There is a lot of dialogue in this trailer, the entire narration of the film trailer is conducted through the character's dialogue which is something I need to consider when scripting my trailer because I am planning on doing a theatrical trailer so I should think about how I am going to script my trailer to ensure that the dialogue is able to fill the time and have an effective narrative. As with the teaser there is no use of voice over, the film's narrative is shown completely through the dialogue of the characters and through what we see on screen, I think the music is also influential in the narrative of the film because of the sinister atmosphere it creates
Teaser
The narrative in this teaser trailer is mainly portrayed through very subtle and limited dialogue through what we see on screen. The only intertitles used are at the end which effectively show the name of the film and fade in and out in time with the music and ending dialogue, though there isn't use of intertitles to actually show a narrative of the film itself. The scripting in this trailer establishes the situation between the characters in the film, the opening line gives details of what we assume to be the main theme of the film, the second piece of dialogue shows that there is clearly some sort of disagreement and the third and final area of dialogue where he claims not be have killed his wife or be a murderer suggests that he may have actually killed his wife. The dialogue in this trailer is very limited but it is able to be used subtly to portray a good storyline so the audience can conjure up ideas of what they think the film is going to be about. It is interesting that this film is able to be effectively engaging without the use of intertitles or voice over and limited dialogue.
Looking at these film trailers and analysing their scripting and how they convey their narrative has given me an insight as to what I should consider before scripting my trailer, below are some details of how my trailer will be scripted;
Intertitles
I am going to mainly use dialogue from the characters to portray my film narrative because I’ve noticed that most of the social realism film trailers that I study don’t use intertitles to portray their narrative because it is a mainly dialogue driven genre when it comes to following a storyline, though there is regular use of quotes from film reviewers that are used to make people aware of the high ratings so they are encouraged to want to see the film, although, I don’t think I will use any intertitles other than the name of the film because I think that intertitles are generally used to over-dramatize something, I want to just keep mine realistic and simple.
Dialogue
The dialogue will be used to convey drama and to tease the audience into thinking of questions about what has been said
''I'm fine''
''You're going to do what I tell you, or else''
''What did we tell you''
''We've had just quite enough of your lies''
''Just leave me alone''
''I don't want to be a part of this anymore
Voice over
I am going to use a voice over at the beginning of the
trailer to help establish some details about the key protagonist’s life
experiences so the audience can gain an understanding in to the background of
the key protagonist, I feel this is necessary because it is vital that the
audience can recognise that the character has not had it easy.
Key learning points
This post helped me plan what I wanted the characters to say in the trailer, it meant that I could plan a script that effectively told a narrative and followed a good storyline rather than being overly spontaneous in a way that would make the scripting ineffective and not follow a clear storyline.
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