Teenage Angst: Teenage angst is when teenagers become depressed due to a mixture of reasons such as there hormones and stress from school/college. This can be separated in to being real angst or fake angst. Real angst is when a teenage will be going through a tough phase which could be because of many different things. False angst is when somebody acts like they have it hard in an attempt to get other peoples attention.
The teenage angst films that I have looked at are, Easy A, Means Girls and American Pie. I have looked at the stereotypical conventions that are used in each of the trailers for the three films that I have researched.
Voiceover: In the teenage angst films that I have looked in to each of them have used a voiceover to explain the storyline of the film.In both of the trailers for Easy A and Mean girls the voiceover is the main character of the film explaining the events that take place and what happens throughout the film. For my own film I have used a female voice over, this voiceover is spoken by Faye, who plays the character Millie in my film. Much like the Easy A trailer, the voice over in my film speaks the audience through the trailer and talks about the events that are taking place on the screen, giving them a clearer understanding of the events.
Cuts and Transitions: The idea of a trailer is to show the audience very briefly what the film is about. The ideal trailer will be fast paced, with lots of quick cuts. This is to show just small quick shots/scenes from the film so that the audience can get a basic understanding of the plot of it. In my own trailer I have used two transitions, Fade to blacks and Flashes. I have used fade to black between most of the scenes and images to help increase the speed of the trailer making it short and snappy which is what trailers stereotypically are. I also used a flash when the fight scene appears during the trailer, this is to connote that this scene is going to be explosive. It also creates excitement and tension for the audience as they are unsure of what the outcome is going to be.
Inter titles: Inter titles are used in trailers to help explain a set of images or a video extract to the audience, it allows the audience to be able to recognise what is about to happening in the coming part of the trailer. They help to make the trailer clearer to understand. In my own trailer I have used inter titles, part of my feedback that I received was to add in a few more to help to make it clearer for the audience to understand. My inter titles were in a bold, clear white font to ensure that they were easy for the audience to read.
Music: In trailers it is mainly, non diegetic sound that is used. It is common in teenage angst trailers that the music is lively and up beat at the beginning for example when the characters are being introduced. The music is usually not the main sound that the audience will hear through the trailer as this will be a voiceover explaining the plot of the film. The music that I have added in for my own trailer is upbeat and happy until the fight scene appears on the screen, when this scene appears the music turns to rock, this could suggest that the scene is going to be violent.
Non-Chronological order: With all trailers there should be some form of order in which scenes are shown, for example they should always show the story in order. In trailers they should show scenes from the story from the beginning to the end. By doing this it makes it easier and clearer for the audience to understand. If the order of the trailer was to be all messed up the audience wouldn't find it very easy to follow along with. With my own trailer I have shown the images and scenes in order again simply to make it easy for the audience to follow along with.
Billing Block: Billing block are usually the last thing to be shown in a trailer, they display the main actors names, producers, cameramen etc. This is done to credit the people that helped to make the film itself.
Dialogue: During trailers, it is common for some form of dialogue to be used, this can be through an extract from the film of a key conversation of phrase for example that will be used in the film to trigger the start of a key moment.
Main Title Screen: The main title screen of any film during a trailer usually appears just before the billing block, the title of the film is commonly displayed on its own with a set colour as a background. However some films may also use a picture of a character or object from their film when displaying their main title screen.
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