Conventions of a drama film!

conventions

serious plot-driven

portraying realistic characters

intense character development

Conflict

hardships, difficulty and pain

Climax then anti climax structure

journey

Happy ending

Intense music

Voice overs

Lots of fades to black

Text in between

Similarities to my product

• Serious plot• Intense character development• Conflict• Hardships, difficulties and pain• Journey• Realistic characters • Lots of fades • Text in between • Intense music

Differences

• Doesn’t have a happy ending

• No voice overs

Our trailer sticks to most of the conventions, we chose to do so because of Neales genre theory which says that the audience has certain expectations of a genre which helps them understand it. So we wanted to stay as close to the expectations as possible.

The conventions we didn’t stick to however (voiceovers and happy ending) was due to lack of time. We were going to have voice overs but in the end we realised we weren’t going to be able to do them. So instead we have the music slightly louder.With the happy ending, we wanted to not give much information away in the trailer, so in fact the audience doesn’t know if there is going to be one or not.

We also tried to follow Propp and Todorov ‘s narrative theories of the character roles and the structure. We have the hero the princess and the villain in the trailer, Jake is the hero (he wants something) Dani is the princess (the prize) and Olly is the villain (standing in the way).We have an equilibrium where Jake and dani are together, the dis equilibrium when Olly comes between them, and a resolution of Jake killing Olly.