Nials Revenge Trailer

Nialls Revenge

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 solilqouzing "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 peice thats 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 smirkingly looking into the camera, confident of his evil actions.We see Myra with a single light at the back of her, while fearly 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.

By Yana