Evaluation :Narrative

How do you establish the narrative in your trailer and what is established in the other two productions? 

The narrative refers to the different elements in the process of story making and structuring storyline. Some trailer may have a narration to unfold the narrative but generally, it tends to follow the logic cause and effect, which ties together character traits, obstacles, and actions.

Our trailer for “one day” follows a liner structure due to it being in a chronological order. The effect of having a liner structure in our trailer maintains the audience's attention keeping them emotionally invested throughout the trailer. Additionally, our trailer adheres to the 5 key stages in a film, known as the narrative theory (exposition, development complication, climax, and resolution) categorised by Todorov. The exposition phase in our trailer is established with an establishing shot of park with the characters Belle and Rose.In the development stage, we composed different montages of the three characters spending time together. Furthermore, to indicate the genre we adjusted the tone of the scene to colour blue-ish grey to illustrate the past. The complication phase lies in the scene after the development stage, in this stage we revealed the scene where Belle and Layla are arguing in her bedroom. In the build to the climax we used heavy bass instrumental music normally the trailer then ends with the resolution stage. However, in our trailer we decided it would be more impactful if we left the trailer with an open ending. This allows the audience to be actively involved in our trailer because they can draw their own conclusion; also captivates them to watch our film.

Furthermore, our trailer leaves a lot of enigmas this refers to the elements in the storyline that is not fully explained and leaves the audience with unanswered questions.  The scene where Belle is starting off to the distance at the edge of the car park leaves, the audience unsure about her faith. It important to leave enigmas as it attracts the audience wanting to find out more and watch the film.