I have chosen the genre 'Drama' for my film trailer and due to their being various sub-genres and aspects of a drama movie I require audience feedback to be able to get a better understanding of what appeals to the audience. To obtain this data and statistics I will be asking questions in order to create qualitative data with my chosen influential media texts, this way I will know what my target audience prefers and therefore I will be able to meet their expectations more.
Drama's are commonly known for their deep characters and associated stroy-lines. This allows the audience to get to grips with the protagonist and be swept into the world in which they also find themselves in.
As stated before I am a fan of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's work and within two of their most prized shows, The Office and Extras, they have created characters that the audience love and familiarise themselves with.
[EXPLICT] This clip is from 'Extras: The Special' and it features Andy in Celebrity Big Brother. The reason I am influenced by this particular scene is because although Extras is a comedy, it also has it's dramatic moments such as this. Within my film trailer I hope to show aspects such as this to portray different areas to my protagonist and possibly relationships with other characters, similar to Andy and Maggie in Extras.
Two other characters created are David Brent (The Office) and Derek (Derek.) Although completely different they still accomplish the same thing, which is engaging the audiecne. Derek especially does this because, although it is seen as controversial with him having learning difficulties, he is a loving chracters which you notice when a close patient of his at the retirement home passes away.
The reason I find these characters so influential is because the audience become accustomed to their ways and begin to grow a relationship with the on-screen character. Showing a protagonist is a variety of situations and emotions the audience gets a better understanding of what they are really like, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Another major convention of any film trailer is the soundtrack. With a drama movie the soundtrack needs to capture the emotion of what is being portrayed. Two influential pieces of music that I believe do this are compositions by Ludovico Einaudi:
Drama's are commonly known for their deep characters and associated stroy-lines. This allows the audience to get to grips with the protagonist and be swept into the world in which they also find themselves in.
As stated before I am a fan of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's work and within two of their most prized shows, The Office and Extras, they have created characters that the audience love and familiarise themselves with.
[EXPLICT] This clip is from 'Extras: The Special' and it features Andy in Celebrity Big Brother. The reason I am influenced by this particular scene is because although Extras is a comedy, it also has it's dramatic moments such as this. Within my film trailer I hope to show aspects such as this to portray different areas to my protagonist and possibly relationships with other characters, similar to Andy and Maggie in Extras.
Two other characters created are David Brent (The Office) and Derek (Derek.) Although completely different they still accomplish the same thing, which is engaging the audiecne. Derek especially does this because, although it is seen as controversial with him having learning difficulties, he is a loving chracters which you notice when a close patient of his at the retirement home passes away.
The reason I find these characters so influential is because the audience become accustomed to their ways and begin to grow a relationship with the on-screen character. Showing a protagonist is a variety of situations and emotions the audience gets a better understanding of what they are really like, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Another major convention of any film trailer is the soundtrack. With a drama movie the soundtrack needs to capture the emotion of what is being portrayed. Two influential pieces of music that I believe do this are compositions by Ludovico Einaudi:
I was influenced by this piece when it was featured in the 'one-off'' TV Drama 'Derek' by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Yet again, similar to the first composition, this can capture the mood and highlight rather upsetting scenes and is generally effective in engaging the audience in the emotions of the character and story line.
I feel in order to create an outstanding Drama movie, it needs to capture a variety of moods the denotations of this piece are that it is a simple piano piece where as it would connote as a rather slow, moving and possibly is more complex and meaningful. These are the reasons why I believe they would go well within my media text.
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