Safe Haven
"A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her."
I have been inspired by this film narrative as I am interested in creating a trailer which centres the idea of runaways or someone who is running from a past they wish to forget. Safe heaven features two main protagonists a male and a female, I am also interested in featuring one male and one female character. In the film the female protagonist runs away from a crime... She has to change her identity in order to escape from the police and her mad ex boyfriend. She meets the male protagonist when she runs away, he has no idea about her past until the end of the film when all is revealed. This built suspense and that is what I would like to achieve in my trailer.
Analysis:
The trailer opens with the title of the film 'safe haven'. The font is bold and black and the background is a still out of focused image of the sea front, sound effects of seagulls chirping are included in the background. It fades to black, then the audience is shown the logo from 'relativity media' a global media company who played a part in the production of the film.
The first clip is one with interesting composition and includes some interesting techniques that I would like to incorporate into my own trailer. The clip is flipped upside down and fades from a blur to feet running on a wet tarmac road, this quickly changes to a clip of a girl in her early twenties (main protagonist) running, both shots are accompanies by a voiceover of the character heavy breathing.
The next series of clips are in quick succession and suggest that the main character is running away from the police. A interesting thing to note is the weather and time of day, it plays a key part in setting the tone and mood of the film, and I ask myself would this trailer feel as full of suspense and drama if these clips were shot in the bright daylight?
After this succession of suspense fuelled clips the whole tone and feel of the film completely shifts and this is when the audience can tell that the film contains more than the genre drama!
The feel of the clip changes at 0.25 I think this is down to...
- Lighting- The shots are now being filmed in daylight which automatically gives the film a brighter more uplifting tone.
- Location- The location changes and so does the weather the footage is now shot in a sea side town which is calming and a complete shift from the rainy city streets.
- Music- Soundtrack plays a huge part in the change in mood of the trailer as the music becomes kind of momentous and much more relaxed, its also very similar to some other romance films such as 'the fault in our stars' which uses a lot of music from One Republic and their sound is very similar to this song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQHgbw2N0IM)
- Captions- At this point 2 captions are also included, the first one says 'From Nicholas Sparks' any audience member to have watched any other sparks productions will know his kind of genre/subject matter in a film and this gives the audience an idea of what the film may be like. He has written, produced and directed many films similar to this one such as... The Notebook, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Dear John and The Lucky One too name only a few. All these films are tragic love story's with elements of thriller and drama. So the audience can expect this one to be similar.
In this trailer there is constantly a shift in the mood as the main character has obviously suffered a tragedy in the past, these flash backs are shown with a filter/change in colour of the footage, this is something I may want to consider when distinguishing between past and present.
At 0.50 seconds we have met the male protagonist and there is another change in soundtrack to a cover of Fleetwood Macs 'Go Your Own Way', which again shifts the mood of the trailer. From this point the sequence of shots follows the progression of the two main protagonists romantic relationship.
Then at 1.46 The transition between the clips start to build pace. The clips suggest her secret past is catching up with her and she cannot run anymore. At 2 minutes the succession of the clips get even faster and this fits with the pace of the music. All of this heightens suspense!
Finally the film finishes as it begun with the same title screen. And the release date and billing follows.
A final thing to note is that through out the trailer a hash tag is kept on screen that reads...#SafeHaven
As technology is expanding trailers are starting to include social media so that the audience can have online discussion with each other, this works as great advertisement for their films.
The Beach
"Twenty-year old Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it."
The beach is another great example of a young person exploring the world in order to experience something radically different in their life. I love this idea of incorporating a radical change into a film as it creates an exiting narrative that will keep the audience at the edge of their seat, despite my chosen genre including romance, an exiting narrative like that of the beaches will prevent my trailer from turning into a cliché romance, this is something that I would like to avoid.
The beach is another great example of a young person exploring the world in order to experience something radically different in their life. I love this idea of incorporating a radical change into a film as it creates an exiting narrative that will keep the audience at the edge of their seat, despite my chosen genre including romance, an exiting narrative like that of the beaches will prevent my trailer from turning into a cliché romance, this is something that I would like to avoid.
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