Evaluation 6: How do you establish a narrative in your trailer ?

The narrative within a production shows the structure of which is used through the different aspects of the plot. This is usually through the characters, settings,sound and camera shots. Within our trailer we decided to consult other horror trailers in order to install the correct narrative within our production. This is usually following the same style of structure throughout this genre. The idea of having a cast of protagonists happily living their lives, whether they re innocent or not, Then the ideology of Todorov's equilibrium distortion is brought in. A major threatening act is then taken, which distorts the equilibrium and causes issues for our protagonists, and through this issue they try to solve this problem and whether they remain to live or not usually the equilibrium is restored and the evil force is overcome.

Through our trailer structure we present our film in a chronological style. Which furthermore shows Todorov's theory of equilibrium as we show our protagonists walking along in broad daylight, chatting and laughing without a care in the world. But then suddenly this all changes when we see them running in terror, away from a petrifying clown in a park at night. This therefore shows the distortion within the plot breaking the equilibrium, although we do not obviously show the restoration of the equilibrium, we show a sense of calmness over the trailer, which breaks the tension for which we built up through our editing process of showing the darkness of both the setting and the overall atmosphere of the chasing of the clown, this is where we show a candle being blown to, to show a sense of something coming to an end. This also hints to the narrative of how the girls try to and solve the problem. As due to the time of which the film is set, in modern time, Candles aren't used as a source of light, as electrical lighting is used within houses. So when we see this shot of a candle being blown out, it hints at the possibility of a seance in a bid to rid the clown from their lives. Therefore reinforces the paranormal style of horror that we are trying to show.

Barthe's enigma codes theory, is also shown within our production. We use this concept in order for our audience to decode certain mysterious aspects that we have involved within the trailer. For example our clown's purpose in trying to reign terror over the girls and cause fear and tension over their lives. We don't show the clown being violent in any way at all, only showing the clown chasing the girls, which leaves the audience to unravel why the clown may be trying to mentally torture the girls. this leaves the audience to question whether the clown wants to harm the girls. or gain something from them. We also show the enigma of whether the girl fight back or not, and whether they survive from the clowns clutches, as we only show the girls being fearful, but not actually harmed. In one of the scenes were the girls are trying to escape within their car, we see that only two of the girls have made it to the car, leading the audience to question whether the third girl managed to escape alive.