Influences

The influences that I have for my teaser trailer are "Precious", "My Sister's Keeper" and "Hostel 2". They are 3 very different films, but each of them have aspects that really interested me and inspired me with ideas for my teaser trailer.

Starting with "Precious". "Precious" is a drama made in 2009 about a teenage girl who is pregnant with her second child, gets abused by her mother and can't find happiness. Its a very sad story. It was the genre of this trailer that influenced me, it was really powerful and completely captured me. It has a similar story to my teaser trailer in the way that it follows the journey of a young girl with family problems and trying to find a way to cope, although its killing her inside. I also want my trailer to feel as powerful as "Precious" felt, by delivering the genre correctly and capturing peoples emotions. Here is the trailer for "Precious":



Next is "My Sister's Keeper". "My Sister's Keeper" is a drama made in 2009 about a close family where the parents conceived their youngest daughter to save their eldest daughters life, who has cancer and is dying. The film follows each character and how they are coping with whats happening to their family and the girls illness. Its also a very sad story. It was the structure of this trailer that influenced me, it was really well put together and it really interested me how it changed the feeling of the film in a short space of time, by having happy and light scenes in slow motion and then having dark and sad scenes. This is an effect that I want to create in my teaser trailer. Here is the trailer for "My Sister's Keeper":





Finally its "Hostel 2"."Hostel 2" is a horror film made in 2007 about 4 students who go to stay in a Hostel together thinking that they're going to have a great holiday but what they don't know is that the people in the Hostel like to torture, rape and kill whoever comes in. Although this trailer is completely different to my idea, it was the microaspects that influenced me. The way that the camera had different shots of objects that signified the genre of the film. I thought that this was really effective, because it told the audience a bit about the film but without giving it away. I would like to use this idea in my teaser trailer, by maybe having some shots of things to signify the young girl. It also influenced me by the way that the end of the trailer has noise on a black screen. I would also like to use this idea by having a black screen with the noise of argueing, I think that this would be really effective because sometimes hearing the drama but not seeing it makes it sound more serious. Here is the teaser trailer for "Hostel 2":