From the start of the trailer, there are flashbacks or home videos of babies and children which initially conveys to the audience that within this dramatic film it shall have elements of sadness involving children, which i believe heightens the empathy of the audience. This has inspired our group, as the reactions from others who have also witnessed this trailer and seen the images of the children has increased the sadness towards the characters and has now influenced us to use this same age group for the same reaction for our own film. With the narrative voice on top of the images and soft piano in the background, louring the audience within the initial part of the plot, with phrases such as ‘most babies are accidents’ again, has been included to allow the audiences expectations to be one of children being planned for a cause, which she continues to descibe she has been in order to save her sister, a ‘doner’ for her siblings life threatening disease.
With jump cuts to different parts of the home video, with smiling faces of family members such as the father laughing in the above picture, allows the voice layering the images to be effectively juxtoposed as the images seem happy and enjoyable where as the dialouge she is saying portrays the family to not be what they seem due to her not being ‘planned’ for natural causes and seemingly appears the family on screen to be some what of a show instead of reality. I believe this has been included at the beginning of the trailer to represent the family to be happy when the children were young, as the sisters, Anna and Kate within the videos seem like normal laughing children, yet could be portrayed to be not there happiness but their innocence before they were old enough to realise what is truely occuring. Therefore, the voice of the ‘doner’ child Anna, is an older voice who is know aware and looking back at the videos portaying her sadness to what her life used to be like before the treatment began. This creates empathy towards this central protagonist as even though she is of an older age in comparison to the initial home videos she is still a young girl implying her innocence and vulnerability.
During the middle of the trailer, the music changes from a soft piano to the sound of a louder yet soft aucostic guitar, when images appear of Kate, the sister who has life threatening cancer, bald after her treatment and less enjoyable images of family members such as sequences of the film of the mother crying and soblings with a blank look on their faces opposed to the prevoius typical family life.
This trailer, ends with images of the two sisters hugging within a photo booth, an apparent enjoyable occasion yet due to Kate’s bald head and pale looking face the audience know that this is not the case, and she is extemely ill. This has been positioned by the end of the media text to portray and foreshadow that by the end of the film illness shall beat cures and hints the elements of possible death. Yet creating even further empathy with the music used during the last secounds of the trailer with the words ‘life is beautiful’ with a light heartened tempo which gradually fades out with the final credits to symbolise that life and death shall be two main themes within the film, and life is indeed beautiful when you need to make the most of it due to it being on a time limit.
This film was an incredible inspiration to our group, as we want to gain this same empathy from our film likewise to ‘My Sister’s Keeper’. We want to include themes of love and death and thought the jounrey in which this specific trailer took us on right through the protagonists life, initially as a baby right through to the foreshadowing of her illness overlooking her life and consequently leading her to death was extremely effective as it allines us with the character and we feel the same emotions she or the family members may feel. When preparing our film trailer, we believe this technique could be possibly effective in the same way if we too, use this idea of taking the audience on a path with our characters of there life and guiding them through the central themes and occurances, (such as the illness and peaking romance within this film).
With jump cuts to different parts of the home video, with smiling faces of family members such as the father laughing in the above picture, allows the voice layering the images to be effectively juxtoposed as the images seem happy and enjoyable where as the dialouge she is saying portrays the family to not be what they seem due to her not being ‘planned’ for natural causes and seemingly appears the family on screen to be some what of a show instead of reality. I believe this has been included at the beginning of the trailer to represent the family to be happy when the children were young, as the sisters, Anna and Kate within the videos seem like normal laughing children, yet could be portrayed to be not there happiness but their innocence before they were old enough to realise what is truely occuring. Therefore, the voice of the ‘doner’ child Anna, is an older voice who is know aware and looking back at the videos portaying her sadness to what her life used to be like before the treatment began. This creates empathy towards this central protagonist as even though she is of an older age in comparison to the initial home videos she is still a young girl implying her innocence and vulnerability.
During the middle of the trailer, the music changes from a soft piano to the sound of a louder yet soft aucostic guitar, when images appear of Kate, the sister who has life threatening cancer, bald after her treatment and less enjoyable images of family members such as sequences of the film of the mother crying and soblings with a blank look on their faces opposed to the prevoius typical family life.
This trailer, ends with images of the two sisters hugging within a photo booth, an apparent enjoyable occasion yet due to Kate’s bald head and pale looking face the audience know that this is not the case, and she is extemely ill. This has been positioned by the end of the media text to portray and foreshadow that by the end of the film illness shall beat cures and hints the elements of possible death. Yet creating even further empathy with the music used during the last secounds of the trailer with the words ‘life is beautiful’ with a light heartened tempo which gradually fades out with the final credits to symbolise that life and death shall be two main themes within the film, and life is indeed beautiful when you need to make the most of it due to it being on a time limit.
This film was an incredible inspiration to our group, as we want to gain this same empathy from our film likewise to ‘My Sister’s Keeper’. We want to include themes of love and death and thought the jounrey in which this specific trailer took us on right through the protagonists life, initially as a baby right through to the foreshadowing of her illness overlooking her life and consequently leading her to death was extremely effective as it allines us with the character and we feel the same emotions she or the family members may feel. When preparing our film trailer, we believe this technique could be possibly effective in the same way if we too, use this idea of taking the audience on a path with our characters of there life and guiding them through the central themes and occurances, (such as the illness and peaking romance within this film).