With Nialls Revenge, I decided to analyse the Hollyoaks trailer to get more background research on what makes a trailer effective and hopefully include that in our own.In the beginning we are straight away led to a low lighted room where Niall is soliloquizing "Once upon a time mum, you chose not to keep a child".
Obviously bitter, the mis en scene and the characters appearance sets a thrill factor, the music is also completely out of tune which emphasises the dangerous situation. I like this it does create a thriller effect but at the same time its a completely dramatic piece that's guaranteed to catch the audiences attention and leave it at a cliffhanger.
We are then guided to crying Tina who shouts that "max" (her son) needs her so her mother Myra should choose her to live. The grotesque dark grey background sets the alarming factor as we immediately feel like a part of this dangerous situation.
There is a picture at the back smudged, yet not straight, perhaps hinting that there is going to be violent or extreme conflict. Tina being the mother of the child and being in a struggling situation with Russ, is a good way of making the audience sympathise, I think its extremely important to make sure that the audiences questions which character they think will die or and which will survive.
The cliffhanger effect is becoming a more conventional part of soaps, therefore, i think showing less gives more meaning. This may have been a short trailer but it did leave a lot of questions, like what is going to happen next? Who are these character? Why are the suffering? What lives do they lead? Who will survive?
The characters also demonstrate the fear through crying, and actions so Nial is talking with his arms folded and sneakingly looking into the camera, confident of his evil actions.We see Myra with a single light at the back of her, while fairly trying to get to grips with the situation "but they are all my babies", I think the light at the back could signify a hint of hope yet at the same time, the whole dark place with 1 tiny light at the back also demonstrates the light being able to go off any minute.I think that the light in the end is a good way of perhaps showing that a lifeline may go out, so therefore one character will die soon. The whole dingy setting also creates a scary effect and the blank walls make the place seem like a prison, > perhaps> indicating that the blank walls are no way out.
Gathering this information has enabled me to consider what we may be able to use in our trailer. So low lighting can signify danger or a sort of dull atmosphere, we could use this in our trailer from the beginning. If we use it when Prince and I are getting married it could imitate that the marriage has a dead end or something bad will happen. By including tension filled music this can enable us to portray a more depressing mood, so the audiences will immediately be aware that something will happen.
In our second storyline when there is a family dinner, zooming out of a plate from the wedding to a plate in the dinner table can signify - the broken plate being a broken way to marriage like the hall that Niall is standing in a dead end. The fixed plate being a fixed answer>togetherness.
It is important to put this through, we need to include as much detail as possible. Little factors within the mis en scene can influence the whole of the trailer differently and make it seem more professional and gathered.
Yeah Yana once again the information you have added has now made it clear what we are going to show and i now understand what we need to do , well done, by the way this is really great research and the its in depth detail keep it up .
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