We Use the conventions of war trailers for the titles and dates out in cinema by putting them in the same location as a trailer. This is then showing that we have done our research into where they should be located. To make our trailer more realistic. Our font fits in with our genre of film as its appearance is old and ragged writing which looks really effective.
We challenged the convention of war trailers through having female leads during our narrative. This could change the overall target audience o who we could target this trailer too, so far we have said males, due to it being action but if it has females leads it could also draw in women to come and watch it. We challenged this convention as we wanted something different to all the other war trailers. We show within the trailer women training up to be a soldier and then them starting to get into some heat of action. This is not what you would typically see within a war trailer. Normally if there are women involved it is them saying goodbye to the solider or welcoming home a soldier. We called it world war III as we would not have seen any women fighting in WWI or WWII, so we could not distort the historical view. This makes the trailer seem more modernised and also makes sense of why we would be having women fighting within a war as nowadays women have equal roles to men and are allowed to fight.
We used conventions of the location and setting of where we were filming our trailer. This is due to using old abandoned war bunkers and fields near the bunkers. The location was actually used within both world wars for hiding in. When we were filming the trailer we used the areas to have a realistic effect. As the bunkers walls looked very old and had moss all over them and was showing signs of decay of the bricks when they were falling off or had holes within the bricks. I thought this would add in effect to make people look and think that everything is getting run down when in a war. This location helped with the conventions of the genre as they would have been fighting in a field with open space around it hand would have needed somewhere to hide when it is dark or when they are not fighting. Where the location of the filming happened outside this mean that we were open to variables such as weather and other people. These we would not be able to control. On one day of our filming we had rain which made our filming be quite dark and dull but then we thought that this would add to effect and also use conventions as a war would not seem bright and sunny everyday it would have days of bad weather and not only that it seems that it adds to perception of what we were watching of cold, dark and alone. When we were filming in the bunker it was quite dark sometimes when we looked back on camera which meant that we had to use a torch as a light. This uses conventions of a war genre as they would use torches when hey are in the dark to look for things so having this could look as though it is someone looking around themselves. We use that when the camera pans around the room and we see two people standing there but only when the light is shining on them. This adds a creepy effect.
The costumes of the main characters were using and challenging conventions. This is because we used an army suit to add effect that they are fighting. This adds to the realistic views of the trailer as well. We also challenge the conventions as we also see the leads just dressed in black and not having an actual army suit which could mean a different status within the army. The props of the film is using maps and other objects to seem as though we are planning attacks and counterattacks on the enemies. This means that we are keeping to a true picture of what we see in the war as they would be planning things against the enemies to turn out on top to win. This also links in with the magazine cover and trailer poster as they all have the costumes on it as they are showing what the film is going to be like the magazine cover is showing two different costume on it one being the army suit and the over being just dark clothing with a formal hat on. This adds to the realistic view on what is happening as they can see it is clearly going to involve soldiers of some sort and even by the name. The film poster is showing a completely different costume change as it is green colours and is showing vulnerability before the war has started with a vulnerable facial expression on it.
The camera work of our trailer challenges conventions as they we used different shots to what we have seen in other trailers as we could see they use close ups , long shots but we did not see a shot of a birds eye view as it was not very popular. We thought if we involve this type of shot it allows use to challenge the convention little more as we see a bird’s eye view of when one of the characters is running.
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