In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products in association with our trailer?
Mania is a social realist film, therefore should follow the conventions of this particular genre and also the conventions of a teaser trailer. There are certain characteristics that you expect to see that we should include in our product to demonstrate how we have understood, and reproduced a social realist trailer.
Our storyline is similar to that of Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" which consisted of a teenage girl having a talent and wanting to per-sue it, however obstacles such as family and love intervene. We used the bad boyfriend and disruptive family life themes of fish tank and applied them to our own trailer. The storyline matches the conventions of a social realism as it is hard hitting and emotional. We captured elements of her struggle through shots such as the medium shot of the dad walking towards the screen with the belt.
As you can see we have included a main protagonist which is commonly seen in our genre. We chose to cast a female as the main character to make it easier to feel sympathy towards her and to emphasise the vulnerability of the character.
The actress is an unknown female which confirms the genre. Unknown actors or actresses are usually seen in social realist films as the idea of the film is that it is meant to be a realist perception of life and the struggles people face. For example, in this is england, Thomas Aiden Turgoose plays a lead male role, however before this he was not well known, similarly with fish tank's Katie Jarvis playing mia.
Another convention of social realist film is that they are based in a working class environment. We have depicted this lifestyle through the continuous use of tracking shots of the housing estate. The idea that the main character comes from a less fortunate background is a convention of social realist films. We challenged this convention slightly as we did not want to focus predominatly on her socio-economic background, but more on the relationships she has within her life that, inturn prevent her from following her dream.
One of our themes was sex which is a common convention of our genre. We showed sex through the medium shots of the girl putting her top back on in the boy's bed, suggesting she has just had sexual relations with him.
We challenge the stereotypes of the genre by narrowing the themes we exclude the use of drugs, alcohol and antisocial behaviour, so we can focus mainly on the struggle between her father, her intimate relationships and her dream.
Social Realist films normally use mostly diegetic sound which we developed through use of dialogue as well as a sound track layered over the top.
Our trailer matches the conventions of Freytag's dramatic structure. Initially there is exposition, following a rising action created through the slow motion medium shot of the father walking towards the screen with a belt in his hand implying violence. Additionally, there is a climax at the end of the trailer when there is a rewind of her recent events which builds up tension and curiosity as to what will become of the character. As for the last two stages of Freytags theory, these are not appropriate for a trailer as having a falling action and resolution would reveal the whole story, which is not a convention of a teaser trailer.
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