First Idea

I had a brief idea for my trailer, and drew up storyboard. I planned to use the codes and conventions of Film Noir but have a thriller storyline.

The main idea for this was to set it in a graveyard and use one of the main characters to play the manipulative character and the other the victim. However i felt this was too cliche and didnt obide by Film Noir enough. The title was too obvious and the story line didnt grip people i pitched it to. I therefore felt in necassary to rethink my idea and use more conventions of Film Noir as well as deciding an original idea and challenging myself to subvert the codes and conventions. In order to evoke a reaction from the audience i will consider a montage effect which is to show time in quick past editing which will also unfold a story (Eisenstein saw montage as a means of eliciting emotional responses from the audience. He identified five types, or levels, of montage: metric, rhythmic, tonal, overtonal, and intellectual, the latter capable of expressing abstract ideas visually.http://misbournemedia.com/mediatheorists.htm) This will help me in editing my trailer to gain a relevant response from the audience.