Codes and Conventions of a Film Dystopian Trailer

The Book of Eli is slimier is some aspects as the story which are  trying to create, this makes the trailer of the film a very good example of the codes and conventions that a film in this genre would have for example the camera work in The Book of Eli is very dramatic due to the amount of action that takes place in a lot of the scenes in the film, you have a lot of straight cuts switch from one fight angle to another, jump cuts show the character fights the group of people, the trailer a few  has a lot of establishing shots to set the scene in which the film is set this gives the audience a general idea of the story line.

The editing in the trailer is also very dramatic to show how action packed the film is, during one the fight scenes at the begging of the trailer there are lot of cuts to black to show the character fighting and after each cut hes hitting another person, also in the same scene they go to slow motion to also make the fight scene more dramatic there is also more slow motion through out the trailer making the different scenes more dramatic and powerful.

The clothing especially jumps out in terms of mise en scene as it is very particular to this kind of genre it is very waster lander in terms of scavenged items and old damaged items which give quite an intimidating look and this is what we will try to replicate in our trailer.

There is also a very dramatic sound track over the top making the trailer a lot more dramatic.

The setting is also very dramatic, its set in a wasteland with very little buildings standing, the reason this has such a dramatic effect on the audience is because there is no people around and a lot of the country is destroyed and people imagine this happening in real life which makes the film seem more dramatic

Although 28 days later is a zombie film it will have a lot of similarities in terms of the lack of people around and how deserted the cities are the camera work they used was varied from long establishing shots to close ups of the guy walking through London we would use slimier shots to this to try and make out settings deserted and without people.

The editing is very minimal apart from the text screens that have moving effects on the text itself there is only really straight cuts from each camera shot this does however give dramatic effect to the trailer and something that we will try to re create but maybe use more effects.

The clothing in the trailer is not really what we will be using in ours we will be mainly using gas masks and damaged clothing.

  

Mad Max is very similar to ours in terms of the clothing type and the editing and also sounds but not in setting. The clothing is very post apocalyptic. The camera work is varied through out the trailer and has a mixture of long shots to set and show the setting of the film and also close up for the characters these camera shots really show the genre of the film.

The editing in the trailer is very action based and is what we will try to replicate in our fight scenes the trailer has a lot of straight cuts from each scene to another but also having slow motion to add dramatic effect. The reason this is effective in this type of genre is allows the scenes to be extremely dramatic and at the same time showing how society has broken down. This is something we want to include in our work as we feel we can use these editing techniques to make our trailer dramatic and tense but at the same time showing the story line. The pace of the editing changes quite a lot in the trailer, it starts off very slow and gradually builds up which is conventional in a thriller trailer. but at times it will also slow back down and will then start speeding up. The trailer also uses a lot of straight cuts that are put in time with the strong, stabbing beat of the sound track which makes it a lot more dramatic. Also there are a few fade to blacks which are timed well to make the trailer seem more conventional to a dystopian film. 

The music in the trailer is also very dramatic and conventional to a dystopian film because it starts off quite soft but gradually builds up layers to become faster paced and the soundtrack also includes stabs and stings to sound more tense and dramatic.